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Old 30th January 2006, 17:45   #8 (permalink)
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Default Its got to do with the DYNAMO

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Originally Posted by dceite
I always have never understood this. Truck drivers, buses, and other big diesel vehicals always revv the engine while turning it off(or should i say just the moment they turn off)? Why is it so? Any technical reasons they are told to do so?
In older trucks 1940s-60 (non-Turbo) the vehicle had a DYNAMO as compared to an Alternator. So the truckers would revup their engines before stopping to
charge up their batteries.

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