So your telling me if I have a water pipe that is the size of a dime....and a pipe that is 5 ft wide...that Im NOT gonna get more flow?
as far as the water pipe analogy, yea its a great way to describe electricity but there are a few rare cases and this is one of them that using the analogy wont fit, increasing the 'electrical pipe' lets say dosent increase flow unless you increase voltage and/or current demand, if you keep all variables constant as far as voltage and current you arent doing anything by increasing the size of the wire. in essence bigger wire dosent equal more flow, what it dose equal is the bigger capacity for flow. for example run 50 amps on a 22awg wire and run the same on 4awg and see what happens, because i have, that shit cooks
How? Again the voltage is set by the voltage regulator. its is set solid at 14.7. I dont care if you get a hi output alt its still 14.7 v. Your changing the flow (amps) not the pressure (voltage)
idk you tell me, that was based on the assumtion that you saw an increase in voltage from a 'Big 3' upgrade, however the idea of it increasing voltage COULD work because again if you increase the electrical pipe you thereby increase the potential, which some people on the12volt have witnessed, mostly from hondas that have small ground lines. and hi-output alternators output 24v, ive installed some for competition vehicles and it dose wonders
what the f***? Huh? Im so ass backwards lost on that. Who (besides you) said anything about increase of voltage?
it was an example based on that if this upgrade did in fact increase voltage, if you kept on reading youll see that theres an achillies heel to doing this upgrade, which ive agued about for years on the12volt about this, alot of people said it helps with voltage there, and yea lets say it dose, that only makes your problem worse not better as far as 'dimming headlights'
now whos contradicting themselves?
i said most likely, again this is based on the agument from the12volt, alot of cars (excluding the neons) have a small ground wire (my neon has 2, 5 or 6awg wires so this really isnt an issue in our cars) alot of people there have noticed some sort of increase with this upgrade, but im sure its only from making the charging system more efficient since its less restrained from thier small ground, but to use this upgrade to stop the dimming headlight problem if it works like its intended actually makes it worse, because the amp has an increased output, you only think its getting better because the charging system can recover faster. it makes it worse because now you have a stronger drain and a stronger spike going on. the best way for elimitating 'dimming headlights' is to stabalize voltage which is not done by this upgrade.
and no wiki is not my bible, its useful as a quick reference to help make a point, everything ive said and ague agenst is from textbook and mostly personal experience on the field, ive installed systems that you wouldnt believe on stock setups, and i didnt upgrade the ground wire from the battery and got no 'dimming headlights', and staying within limits of stock altornators
By the time the electron was discovered the idea of electricity flowing from + to - (conventional current) was firmly established. Luckily it is not a problem to think of electricity in this way because positive charge flowing forwards is equivalent to negative charge flowing backwards.
yes electron flow theroy is NEW but you missed my point about that, electricity flows form - to+, what is the shortest wire run off the battery and what terminal is it. now look up teh CEA wire guage standards. the size of the neons ground wire handle a well size system plus everything else already on its own, changing it to a bigger guage isnt going to help much, and like i said if it dose do anything itll only help make it worse, wether or not it increases voltage, it will however increase the rate on wich the system can recover, but thats not a good thing, because if your amp hits and drains the system, its not going to return to normal, its going to spike first, and since you now increased that capasity to recover the spike just got a whole lot bigger, if you do run into a car that doing this dose increase voltage, you make the drain more seviere which dosent help any either.
thats the point im trying to set across with this upgrade, people are using to eliminate the 'dimming headlight' problem. it dosent work as far as that application, it gives the illusion that it dose but if you really sit there and see whats really going on... its only either making your problem worse or its going to cause a whole buttload of bigger problems down the road