Derek Drew writes: > > I was reading in the Bosch Technical Instruction booklet about Electric > Starting Motors and it says, "Blah, blah, blah... Starting systems are > designed to take into account a given voltage drop in the system. Therefore, > in order to avoid mechanical overload or overheating of the starting mtor, a > storage battery with more than the specified ampere-hour capacity must not > be used." > > This raises the question of how to wire our auxiliary batteries. If you wire > two 12 volt batteries together, or allow them to connect together during > starting only as I have done, then it would seem you risk frying your starter. > Hummm... Interesting... now that you mention it, I have noticed that voltage at the starter drops to 10 (or even 8) volts while the motor is cranking on my bus. I thought this was not normal. Still, if the starter is rated 12V then it should stand up to 12V. -David ============================================================================= David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) SAIC Comsystems '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) San Diego, California '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Bruiser? Soon...) schwarze@nosc.mil http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze =============================================================================
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