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On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:56, Jim Adney wrote: > On 23 Mar 2005 at 23:15, Russ Wolfe wrote: > > > My wifes new car has a 120 amp alternator. That is 1500 watts. > > At 14V it's actually more like 1700 watts. Personally, I have a hard time > understanding where all that power goes. It sounds like they're planning on > everyone in the car keeping the electric seats and electric windows going > continuously during the whole trip. > > It would be interesting to monitor the actual output during normal usage on a > car like that. The car surprised me too, when I got to looking it over good. Even the tail lites are halogen. It has the option for heated seats,(we didnt get them), power seats,(we didn't get them), heated rear window, front and rear wiper, Fog lights,(not ours, maybe later), A/C naturally, interior lights coming out my ears. 3 accessory outlets. DVD player (they took it out because we wouldn't pay the extra). And one VERY useful one for up here in the snow belt, heated parking area for the front wipers. And yes, Jens, the battery was dead when they went to take it off the show room floor. (I think the salemen had been watching porno movies on slow nights) -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~