On 6 Jun 2016 at 14:54, Jan Steinman via EV wrote: > Imagine if every little auto-electric goody sold by JC Whitney had to > come in a half-dozen different voltages? Anything as expensive as a > stereo COULD have an integrated, wide-range voltage converter, but > there are a lot of auto gadgets that are too low-cost (or too > high-current) to do that for.
Heaven forbid. I can see automakers considering that a feature, not a bug. These are people who deliberately design major components so they have to be "registered" with the car's computers before they'll work, to keep you from using junkyard parts and force you back to the dealer's garage. If they did, though, within 6 months you'd no doubt find hundreds of Ebay sellers offering $30 Chinese-made converters to buck down their various input voltages to the still-standard 12 volts. ;-) David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
