Right on, I think many people misunderstand how jumpstarting works, with the
marine battery and my 4ga jumper cables you put the cables on and wait a couple
minutes, then spin 'er over and as long as the battery wasn't absolutely flat
and its not -20F you'll be fine. One couple (ironically the people who abuse
the remote starter) have borrowed the battery probably 15 times this year as I
now absolutely refuse to go out jump their cars for them anymore. The first
couple times I helped them I'd no sooner get the cables connected then they'd
be in there hitting the key. Well hells bells let it charge for a second
anyway...
These are people who for some reason can't learn to turn the headlights off.
Their apartment faces the parkinglot for cryin out loud!
Some people's children.
-Curt
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:44:23 -0700
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> I looked at these a couple years ago when I needed portable power to
> run the block heater on my 240D. I came to the conclusion that
they're
> all too small to be much use unless you're just fighting a weakened
> battery. Most were like [EMAIL PROTECTED] which isn't enough to start a
diesel.
Most of them don't have full-power 12V outputs, they're just tapping
the field generator for you. If it were designed for full output at
+12V it would be pretty strong.
When jump starting, the donor battery is only doing part of the work,
the majority of the starting energy is coming from the charge imparted
to the formerly-dead battery. Unless you have some seriously oversized
jumper cables.
-- Jim
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The interesting thing for me about the ethanol/biodiesel debate is the twofaced
marketing speak from the oil industry.
The oil industry would have you believe that our oil reserves will last
forever. They'll site people in the'20s saying we were nearing peak oil and
we'd run out within 10 years. They'll say that because people were wrong in the
20's they MUST be wrong now.
Then they'll tell you how ethanol/biodiesel is energy negative and how theres
absolutely no way it can ever be anything but and we should just give up on the
idea since after all we're going to have plenty of oil to ride around in our
4mpg behemoths and keep our 4000 sqft McMansions at a solid 70f for all time
using that clean burning absolutely safe, pay no attention to the man behind
the curtain oil.
On the other hand you get big AG like ADM and Cargill. Every year or so the
oil industry gets investigated and minor fines levied. Every decade or so big
AG gets investigated and MILLIONS of dollars in fines are actually paid out by
Agribusiness. So interestingly we're moving from the oil industry whom we think
is gouging us and in fact is on a relatively small scale to Agribusiness who
has been GOUGING THE EVERLOVING SNOT out of us for something like 50 years now.
To me its an awful lot like getting pecked to death by ducks.
-Curt
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Gee, if those teensy weensy subsidies are all that would get paid to
the
corn folks, we'd better jump on it. That's nothing compared to all the
direct and indirect subsidies that we shell out to the oil companies.
A couple of years ago the estimates for what a gal of gas really costs
in the us ( but the price is hidden because of all the subsidies, costs
of military support around the world for oil co business, etc ad
nausium ) was between $8-12 a gal...and that was before Katrina and
all the latest batch of oil co handouts.
Hey, if we're going to be paying sideways for fuel through taxes
anyway, might as well be paying US farmers, instead of sending all the
cash elsewhere.
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I definitely appreciate the buzzer for the headlights on my 83' 300D, or Our
Subaru's which shut the lights off when the key is switched off. I
*normally* remember, but on occasion, I might forget more often without the
switch/reminders. (:
Levi (:
On 6/24/06, Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> These are people who for some reason can't learn to turn the headlights
> off. Their apartment faces the parkinglot for cryin out loud!
> Some people's children.
>
> -Curt
>
>
