On 09/23/2012 07:31 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote: > The Vanagon compartment really does not get all that warm. The open bottom > and some air coming down the rear pillars keeps the air exchanged. Rarley > does the stock alternator fail from heat so you are looking to solve a > problem that doesn't need solving. > > Dennis > Rarely does someone connect his alternator to a pair of GC2 golf cart batteries and expect that thing to charge them up quickly! Persuant to my periodic engine shutdown during hot hot weather on long steep grade climbs problem and my current interest in getting one of these little 90A alternators to push mucho amps into a pair of GC2 golf cart batteries, I'm gonna hang a remote-send temp sensor in the engine compartment and see how warm it is in there. You could be right, the alternator might be getting all the cooling it's gonna get anyway, through I wonder how effective the alternator's built-in fan is compared with forcing air through the device. Then there are fluid-cooled alternators . . . ! -- Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, Bend, Ore. |
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