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4201
Agreed, Steve; and I have no answer either. I doubt whether further training/educatuon would help either and that is never going to happen anyway.
I have often thought of posting a sign in my rear window - "The gap I leave in front is for MY benefit, not yours" - but would it be a wastred effort?

Ron.

4202
Steve, I agree; you NEED bigger gaps, but in real life, do you get them? I rarely see anyone keeping to the "2-second rule" on any road nowadays.

Ron.

4203
No Steve, too low: low speed limit = fewer cars/hour = lower road capacity.
Remember when motorways were first introduced, with no speed limt - like in Germany?

Ron.

4204
Motorway speed limits reduce road capacity een more.....

Ron.

4205
It does sound like an alternator problem, but it's worth going to one of the larger battery places - even Kwik-Fit - for a free battery and alternator check.
Your erratic behaviour with the meter connected could be due to the internal resistance of the meter, especially if it was on a range lower than the 10A/20A range, upsetting the electroncs.

Ron.

4206
General Car Chat / Re: Original battery or replacement battery?
« on: 21 June 2015, 19:56:40 »
Chris, you will NEVER notice the difference - save your pennies!

Ron.

4207
General Car Chat / Re: Original battery or replacement battery?
« on: 21 June 2015, 18:38:21 »
Chris, as with most things in Engineering, mechanical and electrical, you could spend a lifetime studying batteries.
In brief, there are two major parameters of interest to motorists where car batteries are concerned, CCA (Cold ranking Amperage) and Capacity. The former (http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_measure_cca_cold_cranking_amp) determines how well suited the battery is for starting the car and the higher the CCA figure, the better it is at turning over the engine, especially diesel.
The latter, Capacity (http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_measure_capacity), measured in Ampere-hours, indicates how long a battery will supply current for into a given load. The unit is a product of load (amps) and time (hours).
My battery is rated at 560A CCA and 60A-h Capacity. The CCA figure is more than adequate to start my 2.6 petrol and the Capacity figure would be fine if it were true! However, my own tests (discharging into a 12 amp load) shwed that it lowered its terminal voltage to 7 volts after just over 1 hour, giving a true figure for an aging battery of approx, 15 A-h.
In this case, given that the Omega has a quiescent current drain of 85mA (0.085A), it would be discharged in 15/0.085 hours, i.e. 176 hours or 7.35 days. I consider this to be inadequate and will be looking to replace it.....

Ron

4208
General Car Chat / Re: Original battery or replacement battery?
« on: 20 June 2015, 23:29:26 »
Assuming that your 74 A-h battery still has that capacity (reduction takes place over time....), and your quiescent current drain is the typical figure of 80 mA, it will take 925 hours to discharge it from full in your airport car park - in other words, 38.5 days.
That amounts to a long holiday!
 ;D

Ron.

4209
General Discussion Area / Re: e-bay
« on: 20 June 2015, 20:50:44 »
Also, if you have your ebay account linked to PayPal, yout PayPal record will give you details and they will also help you in any dispute if you used them to pay for the item.

Ron.

4210
Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: wanted alternator
« on: 20 June 2015, 16:00:09 »
Kwik-Fit, ATS, Halfords and many others will test and report on the state of both your battery and alternator free of charge and give you a print-out.

Ron.

4211
Tunnie, I see what you mean; sometimes it's difficult to remember that not everybody is as nice as we are!

Ron.

4212
Why, TB?
As long as people treat it as more of a mutual help club than a Business Directory and realise that we all have other commitments, then apart from needing to have someone to do the Admin.....

Ron.

4213
Hitching a ride on this topic, I know my quiescent drain is a bit high and seem to recall a comprehensive chart being posted on here some time back; does anyone have a link, please?
Unrelated, but of concern to me, I tick the "Notify" box for topics of interest but no longer get notifications - any clues, gents?

Ron.

4214
You made my sides ache with laughter, Jimmy - I never thought of that connotation, and I do have a dirty enough mind!  ;D  ;D  ;D
A little additional information about Captain Tolly; I used it on a crack in my mixer tap in my caravan which was leaking quite badly and once the stuff had dried, leak fixed...

Ron.

4215
If you only want to seal against water ingress, try "Captain Tolly's Creeping Crack Cure"!
A long-winded name for something that I've used in my caravan to good effect and dries to invisible - and works!

Ron.

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