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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Dinner
The drop in Fuel Pressure from a stock LP would be caused from the large draw of the Grid heaters would it not?
That is correct, and my post was to show that even a FASS would drop a little.
Originally Posted by Dinner
Being as they are affecting load on other electronics, would the Fuel Pressure being lower when the grid heaters are on is because there isn't as much electrical current going to the LP, causing it to not pump as fast/hard?
When the grid heater turns on it draws current from the batteries, and that affects everything else connected to them.
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Old Dec 5, 2007 | 11:50 AM
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Just a quick update.

Last week when I was driving home (about 35 km), when I accelerated more than a tiny bit the fuel pressure light came on and I couldn't go over 80 kph on the highway without the light coming on.

Made it home, replaced the pump (with the garage door half open at about
-20C) and now the light doesn't come on. I believe the light is triggered when pressure is 4psi or less.

Also the charge recovers faster and the Check Gages light doesn't stay on as long. The fuel pump must've been drawing a fair bit of current too.

Thanks for the help!
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Old Dec 5, 2007 | 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by JSPulliam21
That is correct, and my post was to show that even a FASS would drop a little.
When the grid heater turns on it draws current from the batteries, and that affects everything else connected to them.

Sorry I didn't mean to like steal away from your observations, silly me

But thanks for the info.

My truck to does the same but no biggy, and my batteries are going on 9 years old. Turn the key to on and my voltage goes up to around 10, once started it will go to 14.5 lets say, grids come on, drops to 11ish if i remember correctly...
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