Spare battery!

Post by **Cam** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 9:51 am

fred mumford eh? where is he now?

what's that behind you? your acting career mate

Oooooh! Saucer of milk, table five!

Post by **Kevin** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:28 pm

with a Mini when installing a 1715 watt stereo system

OK so you took precautions with the wiring, but how on earth did the body cope with it

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:38 pm

...and the car's body?
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Post by **Cam** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 3:50 pm

Kevin wrote:OK so you took precautions with the wiring, but how on earth did the body cope with it

Fine. Although I bent the bootlock with the sound pressure

I also had a nasty resonance which I eventually found to be the rear numberplate flapping on the bootlid!

The body structure was fine. I had a 1293cc engine installed, so it could cope with the extra weight!!

Some of the more amusing things was that it used to bounce the needles of the dash instruments about and move your hair and slightly blurr your vision

Oh, those were the days............

Actually if you spent a lot of time in there then it could make you feel nauseous......... also a friend of mine with cystic fibrosis said that it would be ideal for breaking up the mucus on his lungs and that maybe I should use it as a medical aid!!!

Post by **Kevin** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 4:33 pm

and move your hair and slightly blurr your vision

Well that explains the wiry hair and glasses you now need to drive with Cam.

Post by **Cam** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:12 pm

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:29 am

cheers, but the alternator kit for a morris? would that be enough to charge both units?

charging the battery depends on whether the alternator generates more or less power than you are using. If you use more power than the alternator provides, you will flatten the battery - 2 batteries just means that you flatten at half the rate which is the same as using 1 battery with twice the capacity.
However if go for a clever split system you can then get some advantage of the second battery whereby the ICE should not flatten the battery you use for vehicle functions.

Post by **Alec** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:50 am

Ray,

what's a refrigerator got to do with it?

Alec

Post by **guydenning** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:55 am

Cam wrote:
Oooooh! Saucer of milk, table five!

i'll have to remember that one - champion

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:08 pm

Ray,
what's a refrigerator got to do with it?

I thought I was past my sell by date Alec but ICE is for In Car Entertainment

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:16 pm

ah well - ICE is soon to be replaced by ICI (in car infotainmanent

)

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:29 pm

Hi Ray did you mean Infotainment
And all I could find referred to infotainment content for your mobile, so I assume this is leading edge technology which could be useful in the Moggie, sports scores, stocks and shares, trivia games ect, but I think I will give this one a miss in mine, but for the technophobes like Kate it will be a must have I expect

Post by **Cam** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:31 pm

I think I'll stick to my radio/tape player thanks!

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:53 pm

Hi Ray did you mean Infotainment

oops - yes

Sooner or later your car will know which roads have jams/accidents and the car will make live chages to your route planner, and the passengers will have full internet access, and not just a DVD player - they'll be able to watch live downloads and play multiplayer games with their mates at home etc..

What ever happened to 'Are we nearly there yet?'

Post by **bigginger** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:56 pm

Kevin wrote:but for the technophobes like Kate it will be a must have I expect

Technophile, surely?
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Post by **Cam** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:00 pm

Great, so that means that some poor bods have to come up with mobile technology to cope with an internet connection/general fast data transfer while moving around in a harsh mobile environment with motorway fading and doppler effects!

Just so some kids can play games!!! (and their parents can loose the skills of finding places!!

)

Ah well, it keeps me in a job I suppose........... unfortunately...........

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:36 pm

they'll be able to watch live downloads

Blimey Ray dont fancy that much

Post by **rayofleamington** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:52 pm

Blimey Ray dont fancy that much

well - the technology ios already there to do that on mobile phones so eventually it will be used to shut the kids up on a long journey...
Gosh it's good not having kids *

* - so far.

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:00 pm

Downloading is not so much a Technology down here more a er how do I put this ...........

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:35 am

I was reffering to downloading tv or films for family viewing Kevin.
Not sure what you were thinking ;-)