Re: car battery and windshield wiper motor

Pat Kilgore wrote:
> For an art piece, I would like to be able to anticipate about how
> long a standard car battery would drive a car windshield wiper motor
> hooked directly to it, if the wiper motor is activated for one cycle
> every ten minutes. This is not in the manual.
> Thanks for any input.
>
> pat

Around one week at least. 5s*20A = 100As each cycle. The battery has maybe
54Ah capacity of which you can use around 50% to not degrade it.
27*3600/100= 972 activations.
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ciao Ban
Bordighera, Italy


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