Stop in for a cup of coffee
Morning all. A spirited conversation this morning I see. Dang, my coffee is cold already. A lot of backreading.
Hey Mike. I'll be more carefull with any
X in the future. That was past my bedtime. That thread's gone to hell anyway. Poor guy just wanted to know some history... LOL.
We should start a thread on alternator theory. I'll need some help on that.
I think it works like this.
Alternator output equals demand. That I'm sure of.
Both lights and motors try to draw a certain amount of power.
But if the voltage drops at the light or motor, they still try to pull the same amount of power, and current demand goes up.
^ That's what I'm not as sure of.
If so, then we can apply Power = Current x Voltage.
So that's how we can figure much flows into the car from the battery or the alternator.