On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:57:09 -0400, Peter Grace wrote:
>
> Ugh! Most of my commute is in stop-and-go. What's the bad thing about
> being stuck with the electric fan? Is it not as powerful or something?
>
> Pete
>
If you're in stop and go and it's really hot out and you have the A/C on
and HVAC fan cranked, and the electric fan has to come on fairly often
because you're sitting lots and not moving much air through the radiator,
you're going to drain the battery down to dangerous levels.
I read somewhere about a guy that converted all the main wiring to and
from the battery to extremely heavy gauge wire, and he was able to get
a full charge at idle, but I don't know if you want to be doing that.
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