Keith,

    We've run that set up for 10 years with never an alternator problem, nor 
any     excessive battery replacements.

    Carl Smith - St. Louis, MO
 
>  Hi all,
>  We are prepping our 87 Wolfsburg automatic for a trip from NY to Orlando 
for 
> 
>  the kids first Disney trip.  Now today, while hoofing it through our local 
>  wherehouse type store we happened upon a small AC/DC color TV/VCR combo 
with 
> 
>  cigarette lighter power plug (now we’re not real TV addicts but the 
thought 
>  of making a trip of that distance with a 10 & 2yr old in the back is a 
>  challenge that a few well placed feature flix could help us conquer)  Is 
>  there any threshold of power draw that I should look for in such a plug in 
>  unit running a stock alternator?  Could such a unit hasten the demise of 
an 
>  otherwise healthy charging system?  Would it help that it is an automatic 
> and 
>  that in order to keep up with highway speed, revs of steady 3800ish is not 
>  uncommon?
>  TIA
>  Keith Olsen
>  87 Wolfsburg GL
>  82 Diesel L 
>  79 Loaf
>  85 Golf diesel
>  
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