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• Re: Electric Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:30:28 -0400
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > > Hydraulic power steering has a continuous parasitic load even when not loaded. The need for...
• Re: Electric Power Steering
  Historical mailing list - KIM BRENNAN
  Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:24:44 -0400
  ...vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >>> >>> Hydraulic power steering has a continuous parasitic load even when not > loaded. The need for p0wer steering assist is intermittent...
• Re: Fuel ponderings
  Historical mailing list - Marc Sayer
  Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:39:55 -0800
  ...Then we lose even more of that by conversion to waste heat in the drive train, and to parasitic lost such as alternator, etc...
• Re: Electrical problem?
  Historical mailing list - Marc Perdue
  Sun, 1 Jun 2014 11:39:33 -0400
  ...The aftermarket stuff just doesn’t seem > to have the durability needed here. > > Adjust the belt, get rid of that parasitic load and see...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:02:15 -0700
  ...As for oil pressure > 10psi/1000 rpm is plenty and excess pressure just represents additional > parasitic power losses. > > Of course everyone that has had...
• Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
  Historical mailing list - David McNeely
  Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:37:33 -0700
  ...As for oil pressure > 10psi/1000 rpm is plenty and excess pressure just represents additional > parasitic power losses. > > Of course everyone that has had...
• Re: Electrical problem?
  Historical mailing list - Michael
  Sun, 1 Jun 2014 11:50:33 -0400
  ...The aftermarket stuff just doesn’t seem >> to have the durability needed here. >> >> Adjust the belt, get rid of that parasitic load and see...
• Re: Fuel consumption in different gears - how does the energy / fuel work?
  Historical mailing list - Roland
  Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:20:22 -0700
  ...train, the >> > additional output of the water and oil pumps - these parasitic losses >> all >> > increase more-or-less linearly with increasing rpm. >> > >> > It would...
• Re: Electrical Consumption & Battery Recharge Calculations
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Wed, 20 Nov 2002 05:27:39 -0500
  ...interpret the above statement) but first of all there's the parasitic drain of the engine to consider -- fuel pump, ignition, injectors, radiator fan...
• Re: Fuel consumption in different gears - how does the energy / fuel work?
  Historical mailing list - Chris S.
  Sat, 7 Apr 2012 18:36:45 -0400
  ...train, the >>>> additional output of the water and oil pumps - these parasitic losses >>> all >>>> increase more-or-less linearly with increasing rpm. >>>> >>>> It would...
• Re: Electrical problem?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 1 Jun 2014 11:59:31 -0400
  ...The aftermarket > stuff just doesn’t seem to have the durability needed here. > > Adjust the belt, get rid of that parasitic load and see...
• Re: 82 with hot start problem (long saga)
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:10:48 -0800
  ...65 volts, say 12.4 volts, then either there is a parasitic draw or the battery is failing. Bad diodes can reverse battery current...
• T3 Westy's; batteries; how to have your cake and eat it
  Historical mailing list - Martin Jagersand
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:19:12 -0600
  ...might make one battery leak current into the other, and thus parasitically discharge) Armed with a couple of 12V gel cell batteries (from our...
• Re: Gerry
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:39:28 -0500
  ...For vehicles that often go into storage a "kill" > switch is a good idea for all parasitic loads. On recreational vehicles it > is common...
• Re: Death Valley Trip
  Historical mailing list - Al Knoll
  Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:25:35 -0800
  ...It's a parasitic critter that looks like a tangle of orange string caught in the sagebrush, the dodder, of course. Showers are available...
• Battery FAQ ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Sun, 14 Apr 96 23:04:13 CDT
  ...The parasitic load will determine how long a car can sit and still be started. Disconnecting the NEGATIVE cable will extend the "life" of...
• Re: T3 Westy's; batteries; how to have your cake and eat it
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:46:07 -0400
  ...might make one battery leak current into the other, and thus parasitically discharge) Armed with a couple of 12V gel cell batteries (from our...
• Re: T3 Westy's; batteries; how to have your cake and eat it
  Historical mailing list - Reinhard Vehring
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 19:06:36 -0700
  ...might make one > battery leak current into > the other, and thus parasitically discharge) > > Armed with a couple of 12V gel cell batteries (from > our...
• Re: T3 Westy's; batteries; how to have your cake and eat it
  Historical mailing list - Mike Collum
  Sun, 5 Aug 2007 23:16:14 -0400
  ...might make one >> battery leak current into >> the other, and thus parasitically discharge) >> >> Armed with a couple of 12V gel cell batteries (from >> our...
• Fwd: Car Battery FAQ
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:23:32 -0400
  ...The parasitic load will determine how long a >car can sit and still be started. Disconnecting the NEGATIVE cable will >extend the "life" of...
• Long Life for your engine
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 17 May 1997 14:23:46 -0400
  ...Drag plate area and parasitic drag. Since the drag coefficient of vanagon, I don't know which one, is about 46% of it's...