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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
A better way for me to do this would have been to monitor voltage under load, right down to 10.5. Then I would have known my total "range" under those particular conditions / usage.
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Yeah but then you run the risk of hurting your batteries. I think i read that you took the belt completely off, or maybe you removed the whole alternator as well.
But that's why I'm going to try just disabling it, that way if I run into a situation where i'm going to not have enough range, I can just flip the alternator back on and finish the trip.
Have you maintained that 10% increase in mpg over the long term, compared to your previous long term numbers?
I'm sure if you did other mods to the car post, alternator delete it would be hard to pinpoint what savings is coming from which mod.