If the battery was good and the alternator was bad, the battery would slowly run down while the car was running and then the car would stall out once the battery didn't have enough charge to run the necessary spark plugs, fuel pump, Engine Control Unit, etc). But once the car has been shut off, it won't start again (this means the battery either isn't getting a charge because of a bad connection, or is bad and isn't holding the charge. If you have a bad battery, the car will run fine once it's been jump started by a car with a good battery (because the alternator is producing electricity and everything is fine).

This knowledge can actually be used to diagnose a bad alternator (or bad connection to alternator) vs a bad battery. Why does it need a battery? Well, in order to run electric stuff when the engine is switched off, but more importantly, to turn the engine over to start it when it's not running. The engine also converts some of that energy into electricity to run your electrical stuff (for gasoline, that's especially important, as the spark plugs use electricity to fire off the gas mix, but both gas and diesel both have electrical fuel pumps as well) using the alternator, including charging the battery. The engine converts energy stored in gas using a thermal reaction (combustion)

It converts (part of) another power source (gasoline, or diesel) into electrical energy, and stores it in the battery. How does ones car recharge the battery when its in use could be the same idea here.Įasy. That's what I just said, that you can charge 4 power cells and not even use a full charge from one of the six in the Cyclops power supply sockets. For certain with the power efficiency module, but perhaps even without it. You guys sure? Because the folks on Reddit have been saying that you can get infinite power by putting power cell chargers inside the cyclops and then use those to replace the empty ones once they are depleted. After they figure that out, though, definitely needs fixing. However, the Cyclops lacks an alternative for charging (that I know of) besides hauling out the power cells by hand and charging them in-base, so until they implement a method for the Cyclops to charge itself, I'd say leave it the way it is. When those 4 power cells are charged, you won't have even drained 1 of the Cyclops power cells. If you have a full Cyclops charge, and, let's say you have 2 power cell chargers, like me, and you fill them, so 4 power cells charging from a fully-charged (6-cell) Cyclops. It's useless in fact because it's just a cycle lol I have one in my Cyclops, this is not true.

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