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Re: Alternator Ripple Voltage
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 3/27/2012

Don, a capacitor can NEVER be used 'inline with the feed'. A capacitor will NOT pass DC WHATSOEVER, so, a low value capacitance would be placed across the alternator output to ground, but NEVER in line.

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