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Wow, this issue can get the juices flowing - no pun intended. :) Actually, I have had experience with dual voltage, except 6/12 instead of 12/24. I completely agree that anything slim shadied is not going to work, or for long. I have seen many many cars, truck, motorcycles, you name it with...

(Military) trains, planes and automobiles............... .............it's all about power. Alternators produce current (amps) at a voltage and that equals power (watts). The engines in a vehicle produces power (HP). One HP equals 746 watts. Power is power. No one has a problem with...

Whichever one wants to. They work it out for themselves, automagically, moment by moment. In your steam example, you have two locomotives in manual. That requires babysitting, which I do relatively frequently at the plant....but is doable. Call me a control freak, but in situations that have...

That's very cool. :) :) :) Nowadays that would be treated as a major offense with a bunch of federal agencies involved.

Yes, but that is not the point. Each locomotive does not know that there are other locomotives. That's the same as multiple alternators. The train does not know how many locomotives there are. That's the same as the load in an electrical circuit. To round out your analogy, in the old...

I believe the point of his original suggestion was if the total "12 volt" load was exceeded the capacity of the normal 12 volt system - IOW, if you are drawing more amps from the 12 v (first) battery than from the second (24 v). Actually, electricity is basic math, at least it is in DC...

I understand the beauty of redundancy and of a back-up to the back-up to the back-up. So, adding a third battery as the OP did is understandable and, if those are your needs, desirable. However, Jason S's statements of fact are - - - fact. It does not mean that that is the way you should run...

Yes it is. So many vehicles. One thing America does right, for sure, is military ordinance.

Correct. Edison also stubbornly fought Tesla's development of AC distribution. As a kid I idolized Edison. As an adult, learning more about what really went down, not so much. Tesla was way ahead of his time. In many ways he was hamstrung by the limitations of materials at the time. I'm...

Boy, you got that right!!!

That's good feedback. You're saying that it's just that snow and ice performance degrades as the 'tread' disappears? (Makes sense.) So they are OK in rain or on the super slab?

It is. Largest one he ever made - Wardenclyffe.

We seem to be on the same page. Even though it is my daily driver, I drive it like a Jeep, not a hot rod or a Ferrari or a pickup truck. I am not too concerned about tire wear as long as I can get more than 10,000 miles out of them. I occasionally drive my Jeep 60-65 mph, and I am considering...

Are you keeping the stock motor?

Hi all, I'm new here, not new to life or machinery or MV, but new to this forum. I figure if you have a question, take it to the folks that should know. I am considering Coker 7.50 x 15 non directional tires for my DD civilian Jeep. But all of my experience with these tires was in the...

Hello all, nice to be here. Looking forward to learning and participating. Not too much to say about myself, I'm no spring chicken, and without a MV at the moment.