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What is this?

Post by Dan Hatch » Thu Aug 08, 2024 5:09 pm

Is this a Fun Projects mag battery charger? Any one have hook up diagram? Does it have one lead hooks to mag?
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Re: What is this?

Post by Dan Hatch » Thu Aug 08, 2024 10:52 pm

Is this bitter engineering battery charger?

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Re: What is this?

Post by TRDxB2 » Fri Aug 09, 2024 12:14 am

Dan Hatch wrote:
Thu Aug 08, 2024 5:09 pm
Is this a Fun Projects mag battery charger? Any one have hook up diagram? Does it have one lead hooks to mag?
Email me at address in pictures if you want to. Thanks Day
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Looks like old Radio Shack parts. Would help to see lettering on components, Also what is the brown tube connected to.
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Re: What is this?

Post by Dan Hatch » Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:51 am

That is a fuse holder that is part of the turn signals.
I wonder if that circuit board is this?
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Re: What is this?

Post by TWrenn » Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:01 am

Dan Hatch wrote:
Thu Aug 08, 2024 10:52 pm
Is this bitter engineering battery charger?
Definitely not. I had one on my former '11 Torpedo and it looked entirely different.

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Re: What is this?

Post by Arbs » Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:02 am

Dan,

Can you get a close up with more detail?
Where is the OBD2 port on this thing?

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Re: What is this?

Post by RajoRacer » Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:16 am

Not a Bitner set-up.


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Re: What is this?

Post by Dan Hatch » Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:34 pm

Try this .Has to be a mag battery charger.
Yellow wire is 12v in
Green is 12v out
Red has no voltage. Must hook to mag.
It is like the Bitter.
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Re: What is this?

Post by JTT3 » Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:50 pm

Dan I believe that’s a Seth Harbuck mag charger. Seth made one very similar to the one pictured. You may recall he was an early proponent (2005) of the ability for the mag to charge the battery. He sent out several to friends including me for a 1915 roadster.
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Re: What is this?

Post by Dan Hatch » Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:56 pm

John by chance do you have the instructions for it still? Thanks for the help. Dan

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Re: What is this?

Post by Arbs » Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:05 pm

The part with the heat sink looks like a voltage regulator. Everything else looks like resistors and one transistor. You may be right, could be a homemade mag charger. These components would be all you would need.
Where is the OBD2 port on this thing?

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Re: What is this?

Post by TRDxB2 » Sat Aug 10, 2024 1:43 am

If the Heat Sink part # is S4008FS21 see https://datasheetz.com/data/Discrete%20 ... heetz.html
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Re: What is this?

Post by varmint » Sat Aug 10, 2024 8:32 am

Not and electronics engineer but used to play with this stuff 50 years ago.
This is my guess:
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Re: What is this?

Post by Dan Hatch » Sat Aug 10, 2024 9:02 am

I know what the parts are. I want to know if it is battery charger, which I know it is. And who made it , how it hooks up.

I pulled a big screw up and unhooked it pulling the engine to fix cracked drums. Oh I will remember how that goes, yeah right.
Well with all else going on guess what? I think I have got it right so we shall see.

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