"Then the dealer said the car still made a (different) noise in the rear end, which they traced to a bad wheel bearing. I wonder why so much wear so early in...
Did you by any chance drive through high water up to and over the hubs of the wheels? According to manual that can cause wheel bearings to go bad if not...
Did anyone see the article about hybrids having much higher EMF fields? Has anyone in the group ever checked the levels? Any thoughts on whether there is a...
Just saw a news article today, wish I could remember exactly where though. In essence the article said a blind woman recently had her foot run over by a Toyota...
The prius is quiter than the FEH. I know that this was one of our concerns right away, and driving though or around people can scare them. I think parking...
Pure propaganda, if you asked me... I am more worried about the fumes coming out of the regular car standing right in front of me while waiting for the green...
The car has had no water exposure of that type and has never been heavily loaded (to respond to a different post here). The rear end noise wasn't very bad....
... Almost certainly true, given the nature of the engine. ... Honestly, there is probably some slight danger, an imperceptible increase in cancer risk,...
I tend to agree with you Robyn. While the FEH/MMH isn't as quiet as a Prius, I still take extra care in parking lots and such. I find though that people will...
This sounds like a scare article (maybe one fostered by anti-conservation types? Witness disinformation circulating about the "bird hazard" of windmill...
I seem to recall a similar type article in a similar newspaper about 10 years ago. Only this article warned that cell phones caused brain cancer. Has the ...
Sorry folks...EMF has no link to cancer. The wavelength is to short to damage living tissue - so thier is no way to cause damage. The only way to cause cancer...
I pretty much agree with your comments with respect to EMF emissions. However, short term demand for gasoline is known to be very inelastic so a 3 - 5% change...
I agree that EMF is the inverse-square law. However, I am confused because I thought that only AC current can produce an EMF? Our hybrids run off a DC...
A steady DC current produces a steady electromagnetic field around it. An AC current produces an EMF that reverses direction (and intensity) with the current....
Both motor generators are 3-Phase AC motors. If I recall, the reason for this is because by controlling the phase determines if the MGs are generating power,...
To further clarify, a quote from howstuffworks.com: AC installations allow the use of almost any industrial three-phase AC motor, and that can make finding a...
The motors in the Escape hybrids are actually high-voltage AC traction motors. There is a DC-to-AC converter inside the transmission housing (at least that's...
Proximity is important as well. The switching currents are in the engine compartment, and are a few feet away from you and your head. By comparison, a cell...
While the discussion about EMF in the FEH has centered on its effect on humans, which is controversial, what about damage to devices like laptops? I have a...
I've heard of a man fying a laptop also... but then again, hundreds of others, including myself, have been fine using them in the car with, and without the A/C...
"...damage to devices like laptops? I have a suspicion that some damage was done while operating one while driving. The laptop charger was also into the AC...
I put a scope on my 05s 110 AC outlet and it is a modified square wave. In a message dated 5/6/2008 5:06:26 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, emancip8or@......
Remember the the device being ran is not a "finicky think like a laptop" but rather the AC-DC convertor powering the laptop. Most of these such power bricks...
... They probably assume that the laptop's battery will act as a sort of voltage regulator -- if the power goes away, the battery takes over. It would be ...
I do not feel the issue is one of the power supply. All laptops run on DC with some AC/DC converter first, or a DC/DC converter first. I think the issue is...
I was one of the ones who suggested using known-sensitive electronic equipment as a way to detect/verify the presence of significant EM fields... sort of a...
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