stuee147
Senior Member
- Location
- north ayrshire
ok so iv made a 6 volt lighting system with a 6v motorcycle battery and to keep the battery topped up iv fitted a dynimo. the problem i have is that if i leave the dynimo conected to the battery when im not useing it it discharges the battery over night.
i know there is something like a realy or something that sort of only alows the current to flow in one direction, but for the life of me i just cant remember what it is called.
so anyone out there know ?
also along the same sort of lines i seem to remember many moons ago playing with LED lights and im sure i remember using an LED as this sort of one way voltage regulator thingy and it worked well with the added bonus of having a charge light so i knew when it was charging the battery.
but it was so long ago i cant recall if it was just a LED or if i made some form of regulator cirket.
i hope some one out there can work out what im on about and how i need to do it lol
stuee
i know there is something like a realy or something that sort of only alows the current to flow in one direction, but for the life of me i just cant remember what it is called.
so anyone out there know ?
also along the same sort of lines i seem to remember many moons ago playing with LED lights and im sure i remember using an LED as this sort of one way voltage regulator thingy and it worked well with the added bonus of having a charge light so i knew when it was charging the battery.
but it was so long ago i cant recall if it was just a LED or if i made some form of regulator cirket.
i hope some one out there can work out what im on about and how i need to do it lol
stuee