how long idling to charge the battery?

Also sprach "DB." :-

Automatic Renaults kept them well into the 70s and they remained issue with 4 cylinder petrol landrovers. My 76 V8 Landrover has one but the

AJH

Land Rover?

Are you speaking about a 3 cell battery?

--Nick.

No. All lead acid cells were said to be 2.2 when fully charged. So 13.2 for a 12 volt battery.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "DB." saying something like:

Series III Landy, iwt; though it certainly had the hole in the bumper, I don't know if it had the dog on the crankshaft pulley - come to think of it, I've never actually encountered a S3 that had the starting handle still with it.

I would bet Ladas, Skodas, etc carried on with starting handles for much longer. You don't want to be stuck in the tundra with a dud battery.

The diesel had the dog on the crankshaft pulley and the one I used had the cranking handle. God only knows *how* it was meant to operate or who was expected to use it though; the diesel compression made it a little hard to operate...

Think that is the problem. Most modern engines would be too hard work to start with a handle.

Also sprach snipped-for-privacy@burnt.org.uk:-

It's for cranking it out of puddles. You take the glowplugs out and wind it out of the hole with the winding handle.

Oh I see.

--Nick.

Lead-Lead batterys abyway, if you've got a leadcalcium battery it's more like 14V for 12cells :-)

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:

Blimey. Ice Cold In Saffron Walden.

Also sprach Grimly Curmudgeon :-

Cor there's a film I ain't seen for a while. Like Flight of the Phonics.

How does 'bollocks' sound? ;-)

On the most part correct, but the alternators output is not linear- as system voltage rises towards 13-13.5v output drastically reduces- otherwise you'd boil the battery.

So to go from say 75% to 100% charged takes alot longer than from 25-50%.

Tim..

like 'rowlocks' but starting with a 'b'. HTH

Somewhat irrelevant to a discussion of battery charging volatage:-) (OK 14V +-0.2V For /6cells/)

Ah. You've moved on to charging voltage now? ;-)

Fair point, I seem to get 12.8 as a consistent discharging voltage.