Bill D. wrote:
> Does anyone run a magnetoelectric generator on their TRs? We're going to run
> the BADGER 200 again this year, at ROAD AMERICA in two weeks. I don't run a
> generator, and I am concerned about the battery lasting for two hundred
> miles. It did last year, but I thought it was sort of ambitious.
>
> Is my concern well founded?
Can't help on the magneto question, but from personal experience,
Charles Runyan and I ran without a working alternator on the One-Lap
TR-250 for some 20+ hours before running the battery down to where
the engine died (20 miles from the finish). We ran those 20+
hours with an onboard computer and the OD engaged most of
the time. We also ran in the rain for a couple of hours with
wipers on. We ran through the night with NO lights in the
shadow of a friendly 18 wheeler.
4 hours with only using the battery for ignition shouldn't be
a problem with today's batteries.
Good luck,
Bill Sohl
Co-driver, 1988 One-Lap TR-250
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