Ian Woofenden wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 IW> On (18 Nov 97) Roy J. Tellason wrote to Ian Woofenden...
 IW> You subscribe to _Home Power_ magazine, I hope!
 RJ> Nope.  I don't subscribe to *any* magazines at this point in
 RJ> time, unfortunately...
 IW> Then it would probably be the best $22 you'd spend this year... 
I'll give it some thought,  and see if I can't find a copy of it on the 
newsstand,  at least.
 RJ> Got some stuff in the mail yesterday regarding inverters,
 RJ> thanks to a post in here.  
 IW> Trace?
Yep.
 RJ> I recall typical battery-to-starter cables being either 4 or 6 
 RJ> gauge, and the wire from the alternator something like 10, 
 RJ> maybe.
 IW> Sounds mighty small to me, but maybe I've just been under the 
 IW> hood of my '51 International too long. :) 
Yah.  Six volt stuff always used lots heavier cables from the battery...
 IW> Just having it converted to 12 volts, which is like moving into 
 IW> the 21st century.
 IW> Anyway, big wires are for big currents, and running a forklift 
 IW> at low voltage takes lots of amps.
But these are all higher voltages yet.  The pallet jacks are 24 volts,  while 
the forklifts are either 36 or 48.  On the other hand,  the _chargers_ have 
gauges that go up to a couple of hundred amps,  and that probably accounts 
for it.  There are something like 75 or so of those chargers in the battery 
room,  can you imagine what the electric feed into there must be like?  I 
wonder what they'd be looking at saving if they covered the roof of the 
building with PV panels,  it's a 600,000 square foot warehouse...
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