Thank you Donee for your detailed and logical explanation of the electrical system in the Prius. I learned a lot from reading it and stand corrected on my previous post. (As mentioned, the Prius is smarter then most of us and I include me in "most".) The Pirus technology is really amazing to me. On a related subject, I was very disappointed with the sound of the premium JBL system. I found that adding a more powerful audio amp after the JBL PA pretty much fixed this even with just the factory speakers. I am leaping to the conclusion that the JBL amp is under-powered by design in order to keep its current draw as low as possible in the grand scheme of Prius energy conservation. Does this make sense? Dave
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(andyprius @ Sep 2 2007, 12:41 PM) [snapback]505916[/snapback]</div> Understood. I was replying to the digression, not to the original question.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(richard schumacher @ Sep 3 2007, 08:45 AM) [snapback]506265[/snapback]</div> I ackmowledge and yield to your digression. Andy.