RE: Disconnecting the battery... When Chrysler introduced the alternator about 1960 they did a demonstration with a Valiant. Started the car, disconnected and removed the battery, and took off on a demonstration drive. Used the film in TV commercials, showed them stopping for a hamburger and continuing down the road. BUT, those were still the days of mechanical regulators and mechanical points, the only solid state electronics were the diodes in the body of the alternator itself. And BTW, the regulators in the Valiants and the bearings in the alternators of the '61 and '62 Valiants loved to fail, ask me how I know. |
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