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1. Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: "BRENNAN,STUART (A-Andover,ex1)" <stuart_brennan@agilent.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:15:30 -0700; Today's cold weather, -2F as I was driving in (Canadians: Yes, I know this is a warm day for you.), has brought forth one of the old cold starting myths. This alleged hint says that you should turn o; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00272.html (8,182 bytes)
2. RE: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Theo Smit <TSMIT@isotel.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 09:41:09 -0700; Hi all, When I try to start my car in cold weather, I want every electron the battery's got going to the starter. No heater motor, no wipers, no lights. Since it's reasonbly well established that the; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00273.html (9,503 bytes)
3. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: "Steve Murphy" <k8vo@flyingbeers.org>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:13:17 -0500; a full Here's my musings on the myth: Since battery capacity decreases with ambient temperature, I'd suspect that people who subscribe to this method probably are pretty well acquainted with their j; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00275.html (9,737 bytes)
4. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Steve Laifman <Laifman@Flash.Net>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:15:42 +0000; With all due regard to the knowledgeability of Theo Smit and Steve Murphy, for whom I have the utmost respect. And, since I'm freezing here at 75 F today, let me share some of my experience. I did l; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00284.html (9,620 bytes)
5. RE: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Chris Thompson <cthompson@rrinc.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:26:57 -0500; Robert Palmer must be off today. I fully expect we'll get a dissertation on this, but I recall doing the calculations in Physics 101 twenty some years ago showing that the heat generated by turning o; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00286.html (10,801 bytes)
6. RE: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Theo Smit <TSMIT@isotel.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 13:50:01 -0700; To keep things as simple as possible, let's make some assumptions: 1. We need zero volts to run the starter. This means we can use all the voltage available for heating up the battery. 2. It takes 1; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00287.html (13,170 bytes)
7. RE: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: James Barrett <jamesbrt@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 18:04:14 -0500; I just proved? the myth. Yesterday I worked on trying to find out why my fuel pump stopped pumping gas. Didn't completely solve that problem, but apparently while messing around, I must have turned; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00288.html (7,682 bytes)
8. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: DJoh797014@aol.com; Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:23:50 EST; Having lived (not survived) in Northern Illinois for 25+ years I disagree with your characterization of Illinois. I have never had one of my cars fail to start even at -25 F and I have never had the; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00300.html (9,168 bytes)
9. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: "Steve Griffing" <bartdog@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 07:11:59 -0500; Say HI to Wayne and Garth!!; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00311.html (8,202 bytes)
10. RE: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Bennett Cullen-P21988 <Cullen.Bennett@motorola.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 09:43:58 -0700; Steve and list, believe heat overcome If you take the simplistic position that a battery manufacturer touts 850 cold cranking Amps, that would say that the internal dc impedance would be somewhere ar; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00320.html (9,269 bytes)
11. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Steve Laifman <Laifman@Flash.Net>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:44:26 +0000; Dave, I agree. However, I never said my car wouldn't start, nor do I think I exaggerated the weather conditions. "where 2 weeks of below 0 weather (F, not C), and mosquito/muggy summers" were my actu; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00325.html (12,203 bytes)
12. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:44:56 -0500; Well, this native Angeleno hasn't the slightest desire to return West. I've been there once in the past twenty-five years and it lived down to all my expectations. Christmas tree lights on palm trees; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00330.html (8,564 bytes)
13. Cold start myths (score: 1): Author: "The Charltons" <charlton@flash.net>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:54:28 -0600; About 15 years ago I read an article in Country Journal, I think, that spoke to this. The author claimed the way to do this was to simply short the battery for a brief time using a jumper cable. With; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00335.html (8,676 bytes)
14. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: comorgan@juno.com; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 19:59:09 -0700; Hi Dave, Sounds like you like living (we all survive don't we?) in Illinois. I lived one year in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Over the Christmas break it was -30 degrees. My car wouldn't start for one week; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00338.html (8,476 bytes)
15. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: MWood24020@aol.com; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:47:19 EST; << Over the Christmas break it was -30 degrees. My car wouldn't start for one week and I was stranded. >> Now, for my winter horror story... Imagine this, six 18 year olds on spring break in Smuggler; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00340.html (8,849 bytes)
16. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:31:41 EST; Cold Starts? I've driven here in Vermont for better than 30 cold winters. Any Vermonter will tell you that for dependable cold starts you need a car in good repair or tune and the biggest battery tha; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00341.html (8,018 bytes)
17. RE: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Bob Palmer <rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:06:07 -0800; Just got back from a nice three-day mountain retreat weekend and found my Tiger list inbox overflowing with good stuff. I guess I better get on this particular one right away, although it's already; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00346.html (9,676 bytes)
18. RE: Cold start myths (score: 1): Author: "Allan Connell, Jr." <alcon@home.com>; Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:05:58 -0800; B9473116 No earthquakes or mudslides, not even that many wildfires. They gots these hellacious thunderstorms and an occasional torna-do or two though! Allan; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00347.html (7,868 bytes)
19. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Tiger2@telus.net; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 11:27:58 -0800; You know if you guys keep this up you are going to draw us Canadians into the "it was how cold" discussion and then it will get really silly. Mike Clark B382100417; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00360.html (7,894 bytes)
20. Re: Cold Start Myths (score: 1): Author: Steve Laifman <Laifman@Flash.Net>; Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:33:50 +0000; Mike, Now that you mention it {9->, as it turns out, my Great Grandparents were form Canada. Winnipeg, no less. Let me tell you two amusing facts. My Grandmother was the young trouble maker. Her fath; /html/tigers/2000-01/msg00362.html (9,203 bytes)

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