Re: SL2 "generator" output

BANDIT2941 wrote:
> > Actually, I've many times pop-started a car with an alternator. 
> > Generally there's enough juice in the battery to power the ignition, 
> > just not enough to run the starter.
>
>
> In some cases, you can. 
>
> I had a battery go deader than a doornail. I went to the mall, had the car
> parked for 15 minutes. Came back out, NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, wouldn't even make
> the door dinger ding.....
>
> I got a jump and drove directly to get a new battery. In the process, while
> entering the wal mart parking lot, I clicked the key off to see if I could pop
> it........no way, wasn't happening. So I bought a new battery and it was all
> better.
>
> Although, I would imagine that during a normal "left the headlights on, car
> won't start" deal, the batt would probably have enough juice to energize the
> alt and start the car.

Yeah, had a Citation that I had to be sure to park on a hill for 
several weeks, since I didn't have the time to get the battery 
changed.  Must have pop-started it a dozen times.  But when the 
battery literally blew up on our Voyager I doubt that any size hill 
could have gotten it started.

--
Dan Hicks
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to 
suspect good.  --Marcus Tullius Cicero