Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

Christopher McCann wrote: I was told that driving with one's lights on helps to recharge the battery faster...is there any truth to that? Doesn't make sense to me. Not in YOUR car. Marshall -- Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions) der Dieseling Doktor

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

I agree. It doesn't make sense to me either. If your charging system is working correctly, it should put out enough voltage to charge the battery with nothing else running. Turning the lights on should only increase the amount of energy that the alternator needs to put out. So in most terms, if

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

So in most terms, if it did anything it would only slow down the time to recharge the battery. Perhaps in the days of mechanical regulators it caused the voltage to end up a little higher when there was a moderate load. I'm sure it could only hinder the process now. I HAVE heard that turning

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

What's built-in for the diesels as to battery warming? On 4/21/06, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I HAVE heard that turning on the lights when cold may give more juice for starting. That sounded silly to me as well, but then I heard the reason is that the lights get the

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

Glow Plugs! Gary Thompson Austin, TX 1995 E320 On 4/21/06, Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's built-in for the diesels as to battery warming?

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

Ahhh, I suppose that would work similarly... (: Levi On 4/21/06, Gary Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glow Plugs! Gary Thompson Austin, TX 1995 E320 On 4/21/06, Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's built-in for the diesels as to battery warming?

[MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

I was told that driving with one's lights on helps to recharge the battery faster...is there any truth to that? Doesn't make sense to me. *Nor to me, I’m not an electrical engineer Bu. If your generator is putting out 100 amps and it takes, say, 80 amps to run the lights you only have 20

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

W. Lasher wrote: If your generator is putting out 100 amps and it takes, say, 80 amps to run the lights you only have 20 amps dedicated to the Battery. You must be running some serious lights. ;) David Brodbeck '83 300D Turbo

Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge

Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] driving with lights and battery charge W. Lasher wrote: If your generator is putting out 100 amps and it takes, say, 80 amps to run the lights you only have 20 amps dedicated to the Battery. You must be running some serious lights. ;) David Brodbeck '83

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Potter, Tom E wrote: Yeah. I was hoping those figures were for demonstration purposes only. Otherwise, I DO NOT want to meet him in oncoming traffic. Maybe he's a Baja racer. I think to them a driving light is something that can vaporize troublesome boulders at a range of fifty yards...on