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Old 04-10-2012, 12:39 AM   #12 (permalink)
steffen707
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
for my electric car I'm planing to hook my DC to DC converter up to a small motorcycle battery that I had to act as a buffer, that way I can push the limits of the size of the converter without having to worry about flipping on the wipers and defrost fan while driving at night, and when I do that my head lights will still be full brightness.
Do you mean that the defrost, wipers, fan and headlights would draw too much power from the dc/dc converter and so to not worry about the capacity, you'll just have the motorcycle battery to buffer the higher amp draw?
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