"Marshall Banana" wrote in message
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Also Sprach Doug Dotson dougdotson@nospamcablespeednospamcom:

My car has a feature that will automatically start it and charge the
batteries if the voltage drops below 11 volts. I haven't tested it
but apparently the designers felt this was a good figure.

I hope that this is a feature which you must manually activate,

Of course,

and will
deactivate itself automatically after you put the car in drive or
something...

Certainly. Once the car is running it is doubtful the voltage will be low
enough
to activate the feature anyway. The start lockout would prevent a problem
even if an attempt was made to start with the engine running. You can turn
the
key to "start" all you want, but if the engine is running if will not engage
the
starter motor. Matter of fact, all you do to start is to turn the key to
"start" and
release it. It will automatically crank the engine until it starts.


I imagine a scenario where you forget the feature is on, park
the car in an attached garage, accidentally leave the door ajar, and then
the car automatically starts at 3AM when everyone's asleep and fills the
house with CO.

It only allows the engine to run for 10 minutes then shuts it down. Enabling
the feature in a garage would be pretty stupid I would think.

Dan


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