Lucas corporate philosophy

[Francois Demont <100304.2046@CompuServe.COM>]

Bob (random-de-Lucas corporate philosophy) Sykes wrote :
>>>Rather than use 12V guages or a solid state regulator for the ~10V required
to run our guages;  Lucas took the opportunity to devise a much more
sophisticated system.  The "de-stabilizer" takes the nice regulated output of
the alternator and "chops" it into a pseudo-square wave, with an average value
of ~10V.<<<

Well, it works very well on my MK3 Spitfire for nearly thirty years now...

Francois Demont 100304.2046@compuserve.com