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Coney33 | 22:37 Sun 01st Oct 2017 | Motoring
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Does anyone one know where the rectifier that charges the battery on a Toyota Hi-ace P 2400 motor please p L G reg is 1983 first registed thanks any help would be most appreciated thanks anyone in advance
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The actual rectifier will be inside the alternator.
19:54 Mon 02nd Oct 2017
The actual rectifier will be inside the alternator.
Usually a black plastic box held into the alternator with 2 philips head screws.
I'm glad that Tony has confirmed what I was thinking.

I know next to nothing about cars (or vans) but I have taught Physics and I know that an alternator must initially generate AC current but that what comes out of it needs to be DC in order to charge the vehicle's battery, so I was struggling to make sense of this question.

Wikipedia confirms Tony's statement (and what I was thinking must be the case):
". . . an automobile alternator contains six diodes, which function as a full-wave rectifier for battery charging"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier

. . . and this picture (from a vendor of alternator parts) seems to confirm it further:
http://www.jcrsupplies.co.uk/images/images/dscn43466.jpg.jpg

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