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Old 07-30-2013, 01:55 PM   #1127
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Originally Posted by Ingen View Post
It is my understanding that this would cook your batteries pretty quickly, thus the entire point of a WOT switch - intermittent power to the motor, with time in between for the alternator to recharge the batteries. If you want to run it all the time it truly is more efficient to run it with a belt drive a la vortech than it is to involve the losses and inefficiencies of the alternator, and the charging circuit, and the wire leads from both, and the motor.
If you run only the drag reduction it can run 100 percent of the time off the batteries. Its only going to add 10 or 15 HP more but the batteries are big enough and current draw is low enough that they could never be depleted.

If you dont want the full power just go 70% throttle instead of >80%...... and trust me after a day with the charger this is very easy to do.
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