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Old 11-07-2012, 06:49 PM   #79 (permalink)
oil pan 4
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I plan on using them teamed up with my 28 round cell battey I made about 6 months. I will have 2 strings of AMP20 cells with 7 strings of round cells to:
Run glow plugs for up to 10 seconds, 100 amps
Crank the diesel, 350 amps
Occasionally use the intake heaters for 30 seconds up to 1 minute, 100 amps
Some times i use the intake heater and glow coils together.
The heaters are on manual controls so the batteries wont have to crank with heating elements on.

I plan on installing a charge limiting resistor on a time delay, mostly to protect the alternator from the full load the lithium batteries tend to put on it after start up.

I have a 12 watt soldering pen on a varrible voltage controler, I usually run it about 6 watts, I can keep the heat down and use heat sinks.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
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