[AT] 8v/vs 6v

[Chris Britton]

Yep.. ohms law.. if you need the extra watts.. you gotta have extra amps, if 
your supply voltage is fixed.. that's an awfull lot of copper to get that 
many amps out of a 6v charge source!

Soundguy

>From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
>Subject: RE: [AT] 8-volt batteries in 6-volt tractors
>That's funny, Walt, downright funny.  Such is the stuff of Urban
>Legends.  Never mind thinking that economics, size, or power consumption
>might have anything to do with it.
>Remember the days of mechanical vibrators to generate square wave DC so
>you could make a superhet AM radio work?  Those were the good old days
>when the radio was the main power consumer other than the starter motor.
>Nowadays, we're not happy unless we have heated front seats, a half
>dozen motors inside the driver's seat, a couple dedicated to adjusting
>each of the rear view mirrors, one for each of the windows, one for the
>windshield wiper and another for the rear, automatic sliding doors on
>our vans, a couple of motors on the radiator fans, and one or two on the
>a>ir-conditioning system.  If you had to design and build all those as
>6-volt motors, cars would weigh several hundred pounds more than they do
>and cost a LOT more.  Think of all the copper it would take for the
>windings and the power leads.