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texanidiot25 · 08-04-2008, 02:54 AM

Question: How does turning the alternator on and off reduce the drag on the motor? I'm guesstimating that while it's on it has some sort of electromagnetic force causing the drag?

I know about rebuilding the mechanical bits of an alt., not sure on the technical bits of it... lol

08-04-2008, 02:54 AM	#57 (permalink)
texanidiot25 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 331 Formula - '96 Firebird Formula/Trans-Am 90 day: 19.31 mpg (US) Thanks: 8 Thanked 31 Times in 18 Posts	Question: How does turning the alternator on and off reduce the drag on the motor? I'm guesstimating that while it's on it has some sort of electromagnetic force causing the drag? I know about rebuilding the mechanical bits of an alt., not sure on the technical bits of it... lol __________________ Lets see how far it can go "All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. [...] But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for the same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -Sonny's Blues