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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Wow is this thorough! Thanks very much for offering a more solid sense of the types of gains to be had from these "smart alternator" switching mechanisms. BTW, to answer your question, I am the ecomodder you referred to here:
That's my set up; we discussed it in PM and on thread. If you link to my cut-off switch build, which describes how to do this, I'd appreciate it. But it is not important.
Thanks!
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This was an interesting read, "If you have an alternator and are using the factory style indicator light on your dashboard, it is a pretty helpful thing. It helps kick-start the alternator into working at idle speeds when you first start the car"
and "One is that you have to to rev the engine up to approx 1100rpm once after the engine is first started for the alternator to begin charging - the alternator has to reach a high enough RPM so that it "self-excites"."
this is what I viewed, but mine was about 2000rpm i believe before it self excited.
source,
Alternator and Generator Theory