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RE: Speaking of battery voltage

To: "Bryan Savage" <basavage@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Speaking of battery voltage
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:22:29 -0500
My favorite is tinned coper in tefzel insulation..
dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Savage [mailto:basavage@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:15 PM
> To: Dave Dahlgren
> Cc: Glenn Ridlen; saltracer@servusa.com; todd@twinjugs.com;
> speedtimer@charter.net; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Speaking of battery voltage
> 
> 
> 
> So true.
> Compared to copper, iron and steel are poor conductors.
> Bryan
> 
> 
> 
> Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> 
> >the whole 16 and 18 volt deal is from people that can not or 
> will not wire a
> >car properly. They seem to lose track of the voltage losses due to poor
> >connections and using the wrong gauge wire for the load. An MSD will run
> >from about 10 to 16 volts just fine.. An inductive system needs to be at
> >around 13.7 for best perfomance the same goes for fuel injectors 
> and pumps
> >as well.
> >Dave






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