Lax
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Okay. Here is one for you. I just got my cab heater hooked up and took a couple hour drive today. I visited Mangus580 and had a nice time but to short. Anyway I decided to run my cab heater on hi to see how it worked. Seemed to work okay but I noticed that it seemed to draw a lot of electricity. In fact the needle on the amp meter was well into the yellow. That is strange because it normally is right dead center in the green. In total I was running the heater, headlights (one bulb is now dead on low beam) and just the regular accessories. Nothing to much. I thought. When I got about 30 minutes from home on my way back I turned off the heater and all lights as an experiment to see what would happen. The needle started to climb back up towards the green again before I shut her done afterthe last 30 minutes of my trip.
My question is should I always expect that much draw from the heater? When I have run just the lights as I should the needle was perfectly in the green before I hooked up the heater. Any advice? Thanks.
My question is should I always expect that much draw from the heater? When I have run just the lights as I should the needle was perfectly in the green before I hooked up the heater. Any advice? Thanks.