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Subject: Re: [T3] Fixed aux air valve and generator, more pwr... > On 5 Feb 2001, at 11:38, Martinez, Leon wrote: > > > Do you think that the generator can cause enough load to heat up > > and load down the engine noticably? > > The generator rating comes out to ~450 Watts (except for early > ones which were smaller diameter and 300 Watts.) This amounts > to about 2/3 HP (or ~1/2 HP) out of 50-65 possible. This is only > about 1%. While the HP available at idle is certainly less, the > generator output power is also less at idle so I don't think there is > much chance of the power drawn by the generator ever exceeding > a couple % of that available. That doesn't seem like enough to be > noticable. > More likely that the idle fluctuation was caused by an unstable voltage, than HP drain. Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org