Buggies Gone Wild Golf Cart Forum - View Single Post - Voltage reducer, 36 -> 18 volts

JohnnieB · 03-10-2015, 03:05 PM

A "steering diode" is how the diode is used in the circuit rather than the device itself.

The commercially available :Battery isolators" are steering diodes packaged in a pretty box and cost an arm and leg, but a power rectifier type diodes can be used. You said the lift used about 15A, so I'd go with at least 50A diodes, with at least 100V PIV.

03-10-2015, 03:05 PM	#7
JohnnieB Techno-Nerd Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Virginia Posts: 19,654	Re: Voltage reducer, 36 -> 18 volts A "steering diode" is how the diode is used in the circuit rather than the device itself. The commercially available :Battery isolators" are steering diodes packaged in a pretty box and cost an arm and leg, but a power rectifier type diodes can be used. You said the lift used about 15A, so I'd go with at least 50A diodes, with at least 100V PIV.