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These Schottky diodes are kind of funky, more like a smart blocking diodes, a diode and a transistor or MOSFET. They are for a solar panel application, where you want low forward voltage drop and very low reverse leakage.

This big alternator thing is going to be made for occasions where I need brute power. I am thinking I will use a 500 amp silicon diode based brick bridge rectifier heat sinked to my stainless steel bumper.
With an external voltage regulator that can put out 10 amps of field power it could potentially make up to 280 amps.

The problem with sustaining high alternator output is the alternator and how over engineered they are, you have the stator putting off heat, the bridge rectifier putting off heat plus blocking air flow and the voltage regulator caught in the middle of all of it. I am going to reverse engineer it, spread everything out so the alternator doesn't turn into a little oven and cook its self to death.

Since the big alternator isn't going to be used most of the time it doesn't have to be super efficient.

Yeah maybe I could find a stator wound with square magnet wire, that would be pretty interesting.