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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>
To: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay@stoolhead.com>; "Paul Hunt T"
<paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; <"mgs@autox.team.net"@m1.name2host.com>
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: 16 miliamps drain - plan
> Rick,
>
> I don't drive the GT very much lately, so it has been in the garage for
> quite some time after each other.
>
> A "drip" battery loader keeps it under constant load now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hans
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay@stoolhead.com>
> To: "Paul Hunt T" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>; "Hans Duinhoven"
> <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>; <"mgs@autox.team.net"@m1.name2host.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: 16 miliamps drain - plan
>
>
> > Mr. PaulH here is speaking gospel. Think about
> > this: A 16mA load is NOT enough load to run a
> > car battery down in days. Yet, that is the
> > problem being described. What does that tell us?
> > Well, either the 16mA number is wrong, which I
> > doubt, or this tiny load isn't the real problem.
> > I suggest that the leaky diode is a confusing
> > symptom of an alternator that is NOT CHARGING the
> > battery adequately to last a week! What say ye?
> >
> > rick
> >
> > > A battery cut-off switch can be a good idea in its own right but not
as
> a
> > > work-around for some other problem. If the alternator diodes are
leaky
> > now
> > > you could get a catastrophic failure miles from home or a replacement
> > > alternator, and may start a loom fire, ditto the switch. Don't be a
> DPO,
> > > fix the real problem.
> >
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