texasred777
Bronze Member
- Nov 21, 2013
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- Detector(s) used
- BH Lone Star, BH Tracker IV, BH Tracker 2-D/707, Harbor Freight MD-3005, and 2 BH 840
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Too many things to keep an alternator from charging the battery while the electric engine is being used to propel the vehicle. It takes power to spin the alternator fast enough to charge a battery. The power that it takes to spin the alternator is making the engine work harder, so the engine is pulling more from the battery. The alternator can't generate enough energy to keep the battery charged. There has been an old rule that I don't believe will ever be changed. It says you lose some of the energy that is being used to power something. It's something that always happens. I can't remember how the law is stated; but something about you can't get the same amount of work from something as the amount of energy it takes to run it. It just can't be done; at least not with the knowledge that we have now.