Charging Battery with Alternator - Warning
............Battery charger.......... The idea is heat and duty cycle. If you can "get a jump" and get going and a short trip home, you are likely OK, but I would not run it for hours to charge it up
When I bought my 70 V code, I didn't know that. The owner, a friend, had bought a new VeeDub camper van, and the dealer in Sacramento insisted on holding the Roadrunner for collateral. Some parking lot jock ran it clear down dead and left it that way ---left the 4X flashers on. FOR A MONTH. I flew up to get it, on a side note, my baggage on a PSA flight from San Diego to Sac was a small overnight bag, and a spare tire tied up in cardboard!! LOL
When we first jumped and started it up, the battery was so dead that the alternator would not "self excite." We had to let it run for a few minutes before it would "pick up" and charge.
Nevertheless, I jumped in and drove it hours and hours south.........to NAS Miramar. It was all downhill from there LOL
Before I owned it, when it was new. He and I had been to Lions, where he'd trophied in pure stock
Me about 71--73. I was an ET in the Navy at Miramar, ETR-2, I fixed GCA RADAR and TACAN. The reason there are no longer "dust trails" on the sides is that some young chick had a-holed the car down in National City, and "limelight and all" told the cop "I just didn't see him!!!" The girls were window shopping, I was stopped for a light in traffic
This poor old faded photo from a 35mm slide is either 73 or 74. By this time I had swapped a 340 into it, and THAT was a lot of fun!! You might notice it has "funny lookin" turn signals up above the bumper in the grille. That's because I had aircraft landing lights in the bumper. I got a ticket for them earlier in CA, had them mounted in the high beams Got caught in an infamous CA roadside emissions trap
Incidently, you hear some of us on here talking about damaged ammeters and bulkhead connectors. Both the original owner and I were amateur radio ops then as now (George still has his ORIGINAL callsign!!) and that car "ate" the bulkhead connector back then. I drilled it out and ran larger gauge wireing through there. Obviously before Al Gore invented the internet!!!
............Battery charger.......... The idea is heat and duty cycle. If you can "get a jump" and get going and a short trip home, you are likely OK, but I would not run it for hours to charge it up
When I bought my 70 V code, I didn't know that. The owner, a friend, had bought a new VeeDub camper van, and the dealer in Sacramento insisted on holding the Roadrunner for collateral. Some parking lot jock ran it clear down dead and left it that way ---left the 4X flashers on. FOR A MONTH. I flew up to get it, on a side note, my baggage on a PSA flight from San Diego to Sac was a small overnight bag, and a spare tire tied up in cardboard!! LOL
When we first jumped and started it up, the battery was so dead that the alternator would not "self excite." We had to let it run for a few minutes before it would "pick up" and charge.
Nevertheless, I jumped in and drove it hours and hours south.........to NAS Miramar. It was all downhill from there LOL
Before I owned it, when it was new. He and I had been to Lions, where he'd trophied in pure stock
Me about 71--73. I was an ET in the Navy at Miramar, ETR-2, I fixed GCA RADAR and TACAN. The reason there are no longer "dust trails" on the sides is that some young chick had a-holed the car down in National City, and "limelight and all" told the cop "I just didn't see him!!!" The girls were window shopping, I was stopped for a light in traffic
This poor old faded photo from a 35mm slide is either 73 or 74. By this time I had swapped a 340 into it, and THAT was a lot of fun!! You might notice it has "funny lookin" turn signals up above the bumper in the grille. That's because I had aircraft landing lights in the bumper. I got a ticket for them earlier in CA, had them mounted in the high beams Got caught in an infamous CA roadside emissions trap
Incidently, you hear some of us on here talking about damaged ammeters and bulkhead connectors. Both the original owner and I were amateur radio ops then as now (George still has his ORIGINAL callsign!!) and that car "ate" the bulkhead connector back then. I drilled it out and ran larger gauge wireing through there. Obviously before Al Gore invented the internet!!!
