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Is this clear as mud yet? For a really good DC conversion without floating the ground by the trail Tech rectifier regulator for 60 bucks and a 2000 or more milliamp battery like the Tenergy one on ebay for $20 and hook it up as described. :-) Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

Yes except the wire that is shown grounded from the stator and on 1 side of the rectifier is a wire coming out of the stator wiring loom and running to the rectifier. This is becoming way more complicated than it has to be. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

Is that for Trail Tech or a different one? Im not familiar with bajadesigns. Here is the TT pdf. http://gallery.trailtech.net/media/instructions/lights/regrec/010-ELV-116.pdf I talked to one of their tech guys about it and they confirmed that it was ok. The banshee stator has 2 wires coming from the stator and one going to ground, so it would have 3 total including the one going to ground that sometimes gets floated. Just an FYI.

Also you do want the rectifier regulator bolted to the chassis so that it can bleed off any excess voltage when it is regulating it. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

If you do not float the ground on the stator you will have two wires coming out of the stator hook up both of those to the regulator. if you floated the ground on the stator you would have a third wire, that is the wire that we are ignoring. Yes you do need to have a ground hook from your lights to the trail Tech regulator or battery just follow their wiring diagram. Is that clear or do you need any more clarification? Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

You just need to make sure that the lights you hook up the case is not connected to ground. mine were not some of them may be so verify that or make some type of insulator. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

Correct, just don't worry about the wire connected to frame ground and hook up the two that are accessible. And no I am not using the stock ac regulator, I think they want you to use a battery, atleast a small one. I think I posted a link earlier to the one I used. I am very happy with this setup. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

With the trail Tech rectifier/regulator you do NOT need to float the ground nor did I. You just have to make sure all your negatives for your lights and such are ran with wires and not touching the frame. I repeat you do NOT need to float the ground if you do not want to. I thought i already made that clear. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

By the way thought I'd say I'm not associated with trail Tech by any means whatsoever Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

I tried to get off cheap also and all it did was end up costing me a little bit of money and time as well then when I actually bought the trail Tech unit I have a wonderful set up that works perfect. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

Read my last post.... if you are regulating the AC to 12 volt before you change it to DC it will not be the voltage you expect. You need to rectify it to DC and then regulate it to 12 volt DC after it is rectified to DC. This is why I recommend the trail Tech rectifier regulator set up for 60 bucks. I have a simple 2000 milliamp rechargeable 12 volt battery pack that was like 20 bucks hooked up as well then I can have light for quite a while without it running if I need to fix something or somebody wrecks and we need some light. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

If it follows standard rules and the aftermarket box does not have a regulator in it and relying on the stock ac regulator, I would think at 12v ac you would end up with 7.6 volts dc and if at 14.5 ac then you would end up with 9.2 volts dc. But real life application may prove otherwise. Or...... that's the liquor talking.... lol Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

Once you get it hooked up while using the factory ac regulator post up what you're dc voltage is at idle and at some higher rpms. I kind of doubt it will be correct, because there is a multiplication factor when changing to DC, and since you are regulating it before you are rectifying it, I would be curious as to what volts it is putting out. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

The capacitor that's in that box takes the place of a battery to eliminate flicker if it is large enough for the application. But I'm still curious as to if its just using a standard $5 bridge rectifier to convert to DC in there or something else and what he's using to regulate it. Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk

Sorry been busy but you can't really see much there's a capacitor I'm assuming there's a bridge rectifier in there but all I can see is the capacitor and some foam stuff Sent from my Samsung S3 on Tapatalk