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Message: <blockquote data-quote="audioholic" data-source="post: 5215160" data-attributes="member: 549629">Why is idle speed charge capabilities so important? Yes obviously we'd all love our alts to put out max power even at idle, but how often do most of us sit for loong periods of time with the car idling? Much much less time than we do running the engine at normal operating RPM's. So unless you are a competitor who will be getting scored with the engine running at idle, I dont see the huge problem.This is the perfect example. Id rather have an alt that only puts out 50amps at idle, but will do 140 amps when the engine is running operating RPM's than I would an alternator that puts out 70 amps at idle, but only 100 amps with the engine RPM's higher. Why? Because the vast majority of the time my engine will not be sitting at idle.</blockquote>

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