I drove the 124 TD over 100 miles with the lights on, and still had
battery. On the return trip, I charged the battery before leaving, and
drove back over 200 miles with the lights on for only 50 miles or
so. Still had enough battery to start at the end of both cases.
The true answer is How strong is your battery / how little current draw can
you live with. If your battery has 100 Amp hours available, and you can
draw only 1 amp, then you have 100 hours of life....more or less
Lights draw a lot of current. Turn off all unnecessary current draws:
radio, A/C, Heater fan etc.
At 09:18 AM 11/17/2005, you wrote:
I drove my turbodiesel vanagon from Chicago to Scranton, PA with no
alternator, even using the wipers and lights the last two hours.
Still had enough juice to roll start the next morning.
Dan
>Still it appears you can run a w124 diesel a long way with faulty
>electrical system.
>
>
>John
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Dan Weeks
82 VW Westfalia 1.6 TD conversion 182k
82 Mercedes 300SD, 275k
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