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An electric fan can draw anything from under 10A to at least 50A. Won't take many of those five minute runs with a powerful fan to drain a battery...
Did you check the ground when the lamps were hooked up and turned on? Voltage loss due to resistance ONLY shows up when there's current flowing....
Generally, the fan may be needed when you are not driving fast enough to push enough air through the radiator. Sitting still at the red light for...
Takes a lot of time to cool down the intake when there's no circulation in the cooling system. A temperature sensor at the radiator should react...
From the book Tune to win, by Carroll Smith. More intended for racing where weight is a big factor, but still perfectly good on slower street cars...
A ballast resistor does a lot of things. One of the important ones that most don't understand is that a (suitable) coil-ballast combo can produce...
(Ply)wood is often sandwiched inside the fiberglass laminate during the manufacturing process, to make stronger areas where things can be screwed...
The same goes for most electrical issues and cheap, basic multimeters too. Five minutes with a five dollar meter can often tell you exactly where...
That dimmer may have used a triac or something else, there are other versions too, but yes, electronic AC dimmers are indeed very different from...
A SCR a.k.a. thyristor is an electronic component that works as a auto resetting switch. In a CDI system you first charge a capacitor to a few...
There is another option, the watts link. A bit more complicated, but better than the panhard setup. [MEDIA]
That'll have a HORRIBLE sideways movement when the suspension moves. For every inch the suspension moves, the axle will be moved about an inch...
Cast iron piston was the standard originally. We had to move to aluminum pistons as engine performance increased, the heavier cast iron is...
Sometimes it's easier to heat one part, rather than cool the other part enough to make the same difference in size. Sure, cast iron probably...
Just to be clear, old cracked rubber is not good on any date. Joking aside, those have had a long life. Should probably have been retired (pun...
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