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Date:         Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:42:24 -0800
Reply-To:     Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject:      Re: Retrofit Electric  Pumps
Comments: To: Bill Collins <wb6otg@INTREX.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <200802191628.AA3903389910@intrex.net>
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Perhaps what is meant is that power steering since it's ON all the time on
the average consumes more power than the AC?


Mike




On 2/19/08 1:28 PM, "Bill Collins" <wb6otg@INTREX.NET> wrote:


>> They claim:" the hydraulic steering system in your car siphons off
>> somewhere between one to three miles per gallon from your vehicle's
>> performance and consumes more energy than your car's air conditioner?
>
> If it really consumed more power than the air conditioner, I'd think the PS
> pump would have as large a belt and as solid a mounting as the A/C compressor.
> It clearly doesn't.
>
> Bill
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