Thanks Josh.
To confuse the sensor, it seems to me that the sensor would need to be
built into the battery lug, so that it was between where we could
connect our 12V minus lead and the battery -- i.e., so that our current
was going through it. I was assuming it was on the wire side of the
battery lug. I haven't seen one of these things, so I must plead ignorance.
Thanks and 73, Jim
On Mon,9/12/2016 5:01 PM, Josh Fiden wrote:
Hi Jim,
It's not just hybrid & electric vehicles. Some newer conventional cars
shut the engine off during idle to save fuel. There's a sensor inline
with the battery neg terminal to measure charge & discharge rates to
prevent the start-stop algorithm from causing a dead battery. If you
connect direct to the battery, you will confuse the sensor.
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