... Some additional juice must be added to keep the pot boiling. But removal of most electrical resistance could greatly increase range. Or could it be a myth...
Dan Whitfield <whitfield.dan@...> Thu, 5 Nov 2009 07:50:51 ... 2nd law of thermodynamics, mate. You can't extract power from nothing. So while reducing...
Years ago at a Univ. physics lab I helped build and operate a 100 amp super-insulated superconducting magnet that was carried beneath a large research balloon...
Ernest, The maximum you can hope to gain by superconducting is increasing the efficiency of the motor. It did occur to me that if you had a well insulated...
I imagine it would only be the electrical resistance in the motor itself, but would the effect of the superconducting material also affect the way the motor...
Jamon, That about sums it up. You would have to be clever about what temperature the bearings ran at and thermal losses through the shaft and I have no idea...
... I don't think these historical figures have any relevence to current vehicles except as an indication of how various weights operate. In this context I'd...
... Electric motor efficiency is usually good anyway if it's an appropriate motor for the application, so any reduction is in losses which are small to begin...
... The Production Voyager wieghed in* at 640lbs, wet**, with minmial toolbbag***, and this weight was quoted at the time. ... None of this information...
Paul Blezard
paulblez@...
Nov 6, 2009 12:50 pm
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I was wondering if any of you Voyager or Quasar riders have tried fitting a vacuum gauge to assist economy riding please? Lots of US forum tips on the link, I...
... Royce replied: The Production Voyager wieghed in* at 640lbs, wet**, with minmial toolbbag***, and this weight was quoted at the time. When considering...
Paul Blezard
paulblez@...
Nov 6, 2009 1:13 pm
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Referring to this original source that I have before me, namely one Voyager Brochure, under 'Technical Specification' the only weight quoted is "215kgs (475...
Bobbe asked: <<I was wondering if any of you Voyager or Quasar riders have tried fitting a vacuum gauge to assist economy riding please?>> Vac gauges - gosh...
... They were probably copying motorcycle marketing departments' lead. Marketing literature weights of modern sports bikes appear to be similarly optimistic. ...
An amateurish idiot who makes the silly mistake of taking his feet off the pedals. Very lucky to survive relatively unscathed though. This one looked...
... This is getting pulled out of the deep recesses of my flaky memory, so take with a grain of salt, but, as I recall most motors run in the 85-90% efficiency...
But TTXGP doesn't pay $3mil to the winner. Xprize does. and that is in the experimental class where rules are not meant to be impediments to experimentation. I...
Some of the tips are ridiculous. e.g. Braking hard for an initial retardation when coming up to lights at red. How about lifting off sooner? I got bored but...
... Cheers David! My Golf Tdi indicates 200mpg on the overrun going downhill :) LOL But 18mpg pulling a bike on a trailer going up a steep hill in third! ...
I suppose the difference with my Mondeo is that the mpg is an average reading since one last reset it. I normally reset everything when I fill up. Still it's...
David said I did want to have a track session at Mallory next year but I think somebody quite close to me will be a bit vocal about that. It's all in the...
I suppose I could say that everyone is going in the same direction and there will be no idiots driving cars or even sensible people driving cars. D....
As I'm discovering in a local planning application, mark on peices of paper are invariably regarded as more important, reliable and actually like, real, than...
Any reasonably modern (Non-CV) car-type carburettor will have an "Economy Jet" which used to be called a "Compensator jet" This is an air by-pass system that...
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