Hi

I'm finally starting to get the retarder assembled which is a Focal unit that's morphed into the version I should have had....

I was reading through some of the eddy power supply posts and I see for the 192V DC operation the combined 16 coils has a Resistance of around 15 Ohms. After lots of searching about Thailand I found an old banger focal F2200 unit from a Scania bus. The 8 Coils meg tested fine and each coil had a Resistance of 0.37 Ohms, however the combined this is only ~3 ohms which is kinda low and would draw around 30 A @ 92VDC.

My intended use for this oversized retarder is a Chassis Dyno for tuning bikes (160HP) and for sure I would love to have found something half the size, no doubt something will pop up when you don't expect it.

I wont ever get anywhere near the rated 2200Nm with this beast as its easily capable of absorbing 160HP, would my thinking be correct that I will get away with less amps to create sufficient load for 160HP ?

The YourDyno setup shows the PS voltage selection is just a matter of entering the desired operating voltage for the retarder PS ?

Appreciate any thoughts and comments

Breasfed