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From: Knobdoodle on 7 Feb 2007 02:21 "Peter Cremasco" <FirstName.LastName(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > Your alternator doesn't have a feedback that regulates how much > electrickery is produced - and therefore how much work the alternator is > doing? > --- They do; every 40,000km the regulator automatically tells you that your alternator has been producing too much output. It's a Honda feature! -- Clem
From: Knobdoodle on 7 Feb 2007 02:26 "Hammo" <hbaj2006(a)aapt.net.au> wrote: > You go and "quantify" the "waste of petrol". > Why quantify? It's either none or not-none. So far not-none is winning hands down! -- Clem (except for hands that hold some modern Honda motorcycles apparently)
From: Hammo on 7 Feb 2007 03:53 On 7/2/07 6:07 PM, in article 4Veyh.4022$sd2.214(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au, "Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > "Hammo" <hbaj2006(a)aapt.net.au> wrote in message >> "Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> "Nev.." <idiot(a)mindless.com> wrote in message >>>> GB wrote: >>>>> "Mad-Biker" <mad-biker(a)westnet(Panties).com.au> wrote in >>>>>> much like air conditioning, the alternator still turns over at a >>>>>> constant rate no matter how much power your draining! >>>>> >>>>> OK, do me a favour. Go out to the shed, fire up your car and let >>>>> it idle. make a note of where the tacho needle is sitting. Now, turn >>>>> the lights on, full christmas tree, high beams, the works. Make a note >>>>> of >>>>> where the tacho needle is sitting now. >>>> >>>> I hope you're not suggesting that it will move, because that will blow >>>> the >>>> original "uses more fuel" argument out of the water... >>>> >>> Eh? >>> It'll show that there's more load and that equivalent throttle settings >>> result in lower revs. >>> Therefore you would draw the conclusion that a higher throttle setting >>> would >>> be required to maintain the same revs and thus more fuel would be used in >>> any comparable situation. >>> >>> What's the logic behind your "blows .. argument out of the water"? >> >> Er, no. >> >> The statement was that lights waste fuel. >> >> I have yet to see that it does. >> >> Hammo >> >> (...blinded by the obvious?) >> > Where'd you get that statement? > I thought he said that "headlights in daylight do nothing except waste > fuel". > > If the lights are serving a purpose then the fuel isn't being wasted. Yep. So far there are those of us that have bikes that this is true of. There are those of us that have cars that this true of. Just need the amount of fuel being "wasted" to compare. Hope you have a small thimble to collect it in! Hammo
From: Nev.. on 7 Feb 2007 04:08 Toosmoky wrote: > One other feature that impressed me was that if the car senses that > you're braking hard, it will apply additional force to the brakes to > stop you in the shortest possible distance. A mic in the car which is tuned to listen for "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK" Nev.. '04 CBR1100XX
From: Knobdoodle on 7 Feb 2007 04:52
"Hammo" <hbaj2006(a)aapt.net.au> wrote: > "Knobdoodle" <knobdoodle(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> If the lights are serving a purpose then the fuel isn't being wasted. > > Yep. > > So far there are those of us that have bikes that this is true of. There > are those of us that have cars that this true of. > > Just need the amount of fuel being "wasted" to compare. Hope you have a > small thimble to collect it in! > Does the amount make the fact any less a fact? -- Clem |