[Spridgets] 70 Tiger - Brit Bike Comment

[cclabaw at juno.com]

Back in the day...
Battery eliminators were just big capacitors; kept the lights on for a minute
or so at stop signs.  Triumphs answer to voltage regulators was a 'honkin-big'
zener diode that used the frame as a heat sink.

Clay L.
'67 Sprite


-- "WFO Herb" <froggi60 at gmail.com> wrote:
Not much to burn out on my '64.  Only head and tail lights.  Like I said, no
problems in all the years I've had the unit.
Herb

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:35 PM, David Lieb
<dbl at chicagolandmgclub.com>wrote:

>  What kind of battery eliminator was it? I thought those bikes were
>> magneto
>> systems like my 64 BMW. I can run it just fine with no battery.  The old
>> Tiger I had when in high school (don't ask when) was a magneto bike too.
>> It
>> ran just fine with no battery.
>>
>
> I was under the impression that running them with no battery tended to
> allow the voltage to fluctuate madly and burn stuff out for you?
> David Lieb
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