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Originally Posted by ConnClark
Why not just leave the alternator on for all the runs? Current consumption should be the same if you don't use the radio.
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That's a good question, and Carlos/cfg83 has part of my answer. But it's also true that this Civic has the ELD/Alt set up that allows the ECU to modulate the power output of the alternator, and it does not seem to be completely regular under otherwise identical conditions. Maybe with a starting battery it would be, but not with my deep cycle. I watched the alt charge sometimes and not at others. And it was not always putting-out the same amount of power. Isolating the alt seems like my only way to control this factor. I have been looking more at some of the other test on here again too. The tendency is to build the skirts as close to the wheel as possible. I made a mistake leaving room there, I bet.