Re: [EVDL] LED Taillights - a money saver in gas cars? -rangeextenderin EV's? - an an

--- Alan Brinkman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looking at safety issues, LED lights turn on quicker
> than incandescent
> bulbs, allowing quicker response times. If your LED
> tail lights turn on
> 200 ms sooner, at 65 MPH that SUV in your rear
> window will stop 19.1
> feet sooner. I put LED lights on my travel trailer,
> and when you turn
> on the marker lights or hit the brakes, the travel
> trailer lights up
> first, then the incandescent lights show on the
> pickup. It seems
> strange at first, until you get used to what is
> going on. Also, a
> disabled vehicle on the side of the road, ICE, with
> one marginal
> battery, will have the emergency flashers work
> longer through the night,
> warning others.
>
> The cost of LED lights can be a bit much, but if you
> just save one
> fender or rear bumper on your favorite
> EV............
>
> Alan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:49 PM
> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [EVDL] LED Taillights - a money saver
> in gas cars?
> -rangeextenderin EV's? - an analysis
>
> That sounds similar to what I calculated (years ago)
> on my car, also.
> (Similar setup to the Gizmo.)
>
> I stopped by a MC shop for a part and forgot to turn
> the lights off.
> Someone came running in to tell me I would run out
> of power. <g> I
> finished my shopping... and later calculated it was
> about the power to
> pull out of the parking lot.
>
> On Tue, September 25, 2007 6:53 am, David Nelson
> wrote:
> > As a simple test I decided to get an estimate on
> how much range I use
> > in my Gizmo by running the accessories. What I did
> was start with a
> newly
> > charged pack which had sat only about an hour
> after topping off. I
> plugged
> > it in again and recorded how many KWh it used to
> do the finish charge
> (I
> > have a Zivan NG1). Then I turned everything on
> including the one
> headlight
> > except the CD/Radio and left it for an hour and
> then charged the pack
> > again. The difference was 0.09KWh as read at the
> wall which means the
> > actual use at the batteries was even less than
> that. Granted one test
> > isn't enough to establish an true value but it
> showed that I use more
> than
> > that much just pulling out of my driveway.
> >
> > David Nelson
>
>
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