I'm not sure you actually read the previous reply. The hack I mentioned is exactly that
(the diode isolator will be "inside the regulator's control loop")
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I don't think you can
may simply increase the voltage of the regulator by aprox 0.5V,
, if i recall about the alternator i dismantled oh so long ago, there is nothing
adjustable, the PCB completely sealed with some sort of plastic paint. A couple of transistors,one canned, smaller than TO3, probably not so hard to reverse engineer. I imagine just need the +V supply of such PCB, with another wire to externally bypassing the diode to V+
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But anyway, as I hinted in the first post, I don't actually have one of these diode isolators atm.
i'm keen to know how well they work though, if someone happens to read the post and supply actual experience.
I know the in vogue way now seems to be an in vehicle DC/DC converter for the 2nd battery (must be a V booster I guess), but gee a very costly solution.
BTW, what I have actually done is diy'ed my own MOSFET nchannel switch, and in my purpose i'm only needing < 10amp, Voltage drop i experience with it is about 20-35mV.