Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr-rsc!crick
From: crick@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Bill Crick)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Car Battery Rechargers
Message-ID: <3429@bnr-rsc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 90 20:40:39 GMT
References: <1990Oct4.222556.20668@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: crick@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Bill Crick)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1990Oct4.222556.20668@athena.mit.edu> erspert@athena.mit.edu (Ellen R. Spertus) writes:
>I saw a car battery recharger for $60 in the Rand McNally map catalog.
>If your battery is dead, you plug this into your cigarette lighter, and
>it recharges the battery (enough to start) from a D battery.  It seems

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I don't believe a word of it! Like booster cable
replacements that plug into the cigarette lighter! Your starter requires
somewhere between 80 -400 amps to crank your engine. There is no way
you could get this much current out of a D cell, or through the 20gauge
wire these boostr cable replacers use!!!!

NOTE the current range is a guess, but we once measured a 3/4ton pickup at
about 350amps!

Bill Crick