DeafSoundGuy
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MY former question about where does he headlights get their power from and the answer from a poster "the 12v battery for sure" still leaves me with the question of: Does it help to not have them on when you can get away from not having them on? (as stupid at it might be...)
I thought the 12volt battery for sure too, but was wondering when I made a 2-part experiment a few days ago. My estimated range was 31 miles, and it was going to be at least 80% all uphill, and I was going 30 miles (at night). The first part of the experiment was driving with the headlights off as much as I could and in EcoPro (not+). With the lights of the big city, and being in the slow lane behind a semi lets say where it doesn't matter if your headlights are on or not because you're in your space between 2 fixed speed (on the freeway) vehicles, it's pretty easy to not have them on with how bright the U-shaped LED running lights are. Or, when you're at long stop lights and also no reason to have headlights on too I only kicked them on when I was entering the freeway at at certain intersections. Even though I climbed the uphill route most of 15 miles, I was still able to beat the estimate by 3 miles indicated. So was it wacky i3 estimate that I seemed to get better range, or did the lights off mode help? It would seem like there would still be a alternator (or generator) powering the 12volt battery, so me thinks that there might lurk the possibility that if the alt/gen isn't putting recharge current into the 12v system, then there would be the possibility of the juice instead going to the HV battery. Of course I could be totally high on this...
The return trip was mostly downhill and this time in comfort mode with little cabin heat and driven sensibly (tough). I couldn't make the same distance even driving downhill mostly and at grandpa speeds. Me wonders....
The other part of the experiment was "just how bright are those U-shaped headlights and are they good enough for visibility for non carrot challenged other drivers? Since those little guys are pretty bright and they alone illuminate road signs pretty good on their own at shorter distances, one would think that other drivers could see them pretty well....
So the (2nd) question was, a night of mostly headlight off driving on all sorts of streets and freeways - would I get flashed from other drivers that
"hey, your headlights are off moron"? I didn't get flashed once - an interesting (although maybe stupid) experiment.
I thought the 12volt battery for sure too, but was wondering when I made a 2-part experiment a few days ago. My estimated range was 31 miles, and it was going to be at least 80% all uphill, and I was going 30 miles (at night). The first part of the experiment was driving with the headlights off as much as I could and in EcoPro (not+). With the lights of the big city, and being in the slow lane behind a semi lets say where it doesn't matter if your headlights are on or not because you're in your space between 2 fixed speed (on the freeway) vehicles, it's pretty easy to not have them on with how bright the U-shaped LED running lights are. Or, when you're at long stop lights and also no reason to have headlights on too I only kicked them on when I was entering the freeway at at certain intersections. Even though I climbed the uphill route most of 15 miles, I was still able to beat the estimate by 3 miles indicated. So was it wacky i3 estimate that I seemed to get better range, or did the lights off mode help? It would seem like there would still be a alternator (or generator) powering the 12volt battery, so me thinks that there might lurk the possibility that if the alt/gen isn't putting recharge current into the 12v system, then there would be the possibility of the juice instead going to the HV battery. Of course I could be totally high on this...
The return trip was mostly downhill and this time in comfort mode with little cabin heat and driven sensibly (tough). I couldn't make the same distance even driving downhill mostly and at grandpa speeds. Me wonders....
The other part of the experiment was "just how bright are those U-shaped headlights and are they good enough for visibility for non carrot challenged other drivers? Since those little guys are pretty bright and they alone illuminate road signs pretty good on their own at shorter distances, one would think that other drivers could see them pretty well....
So the (2nd) question was, a night of mostly headlight off driving on all sorts of streets and freeways - would I get flashed from other drivers that
"hey, your headlights are off moron"? I didn't get flashed once - an interesting (although maybe stupid) experiment.