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Fast tick over to put a charge into a nearly flat battery is no better than just letting the engine tick over.--The modern alternators will hold 14.4 volts even at tick over.---:cool: |
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Rubbish design from the 1960's compared to what exactly ? :shrug: Fast tickover compared to idle tickover to put a charge into a nearly flat battery is the same you say. Can I suggest you experiment on your suggestions with a modern alternator with both a voltmeter and an ammeter connected. Then come back to report that the amps produced is exactly the same at both idle and a high idle. Volts is only half of the story :shrug: |
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Up to the late 1970's most vehicles did not charge the battery well at idle. Motorcycles did not at all. When Honda launched the CX500 V-twin in 1978, they made a huge thing of the fact that its alternator charged the battery even at idle. |
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Worth looking at.---:D-----Live and learn is my motto.-----;)
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I guess the above pdf was too complicated for most folk.---:shrug:
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A bit technical in parts but otherwise not bad. Remember when you said......... " Fast tick over to put a charge into a nearly flat battery is no better than just letting the engine tick over.--The modern alternators will hold 14.4 volts even at tick over.-- " And I said .........."Fast tickover compared to idle tickover to put a charge into a nearly flat battery is the same you say. Can I suggest you experiment on your suggestions with a modern alternator with both a voltmeter and an ammeter connected. Then come back to report that the amps produced is exactly the same at both idle and a high idle. " Could I suggest you read the PDF, taking note of Fig. 3 and Fig. 7 where you will find that there is a noticeable increase in current output at higher idle ( fast ) speeds |
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Did you hope to initiate a discussion on the basis of the paper? If so, to what end? |
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