mosfet regulator

[goldminerusa]

I was reading a post at the NGW site yesterday about replacing the regulator on 1000, 1100, 1200`s with the regulator from either a 04-07 cbr1000rr or cbr600rr. Its a Shindengen model FH008EB and it doesn`t shunt excess voltage by converting to heat. The author says on his 1200, it raised the battery charge voltage from 12.4 to 14.3 @ idle. So, my question is if it raises voltage does it also raise wattage? If i swap one on my 1100 can i add more toys? or a couple of high wattage toys like a 60/100 H4 bulb or 55 watt driving/fog lights or ?

[virgilmobile]

You are still limited to the maximum amount of power that can be generated by the stator.
The MOSFET technology will run cooler than the original.Faster switching and a bit more stable.

[goldminerusa]

In your opinion is it worth upgrading? I understand they can found on ebey for 45.00$.

[virgilmobile]

A clean running system is suitable.other than the new one being able to keep the volts up a little more at a idle,I don't see any benefit.the avaiable current will be the same.
I'd be inclined to use one to replace a bad one, but I'd rather put the $50 bucks into a set of LED driving lights.

[goldminerusa]

Thanks for the help, Virgil.

[virgilmobile]

Any time. You can only squeeze just so much extra out of the bike.it was never designed for anything else to be added on.Even the LTD version designed a little bigger system to handle the extra demand for power.
The best is to cut power needs with LED's and then you can put in more from the savings.

[goldminerusa]

Captain: Scotty, I need more power. Scotty: But Captain, It canna` be done. You KNOW i`m heading for the conversion, but i`m a factory design purist at heart. What`s a po` boy to do?

[dingdong]

If you are just concerned about idling at 14 volts just convert your lights to LEDs and your bike will idle at 14v or near that anyway.

[goldminerusa]

It`s not a concern, i was just hoping for more watts to run more toys! However, i have read some post`s saying that LED bulbs cost on average $17 each, combine that electrical savings with the $45 mosfet regulator and i`d have plenty of juice for toys. Or so i`d hoped. Virgilmobile has cleared this up for me. I`ll consider the LED`s though. To you DingDong, I hunted up a set of air deflectors from a 1000 S, got them mounted and they have improved cooling on my `82 1100 S, Thanks for that.