From: sharkey on
paulh <paulh(a)fahncahn.com> wrote:
>
> As Nev and others point out Bikes provide more than enough electricity
> to keep themselves charged in normal use. Running a headlight doesnt
> increase the load on the engine because the engine doesnt provide
> electricity based on demand, it provides the same amount regardless of
> load. Thus using a headlight uses power that would otherwise go
> 'wasted'.

They can point it out as much as they like, they're still wrongitty
wrongitty wrong.

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From: sharkey on
Hammo <hbaj2006(a)aapt.net.au> wrote:
>
> Paul is correct. Feel free to point out where he is wrong.

Sure. That's not how a switch-mode regulator works, at all.

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From: joebloogs on
On 8 Feb 2007 08:22:58 +1100, GB <gb0506(a)kickindanuts.threefiddy.com>
wrote:

>"Nev.." <idiot(a)mindless.com> wrote in news:45c9c5bc$0$25322$5a62ac22(a)per-
>qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:
>> But the diagnostics indicate that it's not using more fuel..
>
> The diagnostic information isn't sufficiently accurate to be a
>reliable indicator of what's going on. You might need a fuel flow
>meter that measures in poofteenths, not decilitres. You've also
>got a computer between the raw fuel flow rate and the display that
>is trying to make predictions about how any flow rate might pan
>out over the course of an hour.
>
> Even so, that's all to complicated. It's a very simple question,
>and the answer is that energy is always conserved. If you turn
>the lights on, energy to operate those lights *must* come from
>somewhere. That somewhere is the fuel tank. It's the law.
>
>
> Answer me this one:
>
> You take a fridge and put it in a temperature sealed room.

Why ould you want to do that? hard enough to get the bloody wimmen to
fetch the beers as it is!

> You lock the door to the room so that Johno can't upset the test by
>coming in and getting beers for people every two minutes. You
>leave the fridge door open, and the fridge running.
Sorry lads, can't offer you lot a beer... bloody GB's locked the door

>
> Does the ambient temperature inside the temperature sealed
>room rise or fall?
How many beers in the fridge?


>GB

Johno <offers beers from secret cache...>
From: jlittler on
On Feb 7, 5:30 pm, Toosmoky <toosm...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Nev.. wrote:
> > Toosmoky wrote:
> There was a lot to take
> in and I must admit I was somewhat amazed at the thinking that's gone
> into them. A lot of current cars have such features. One that I forgot
> about is an automatic fuel cutoff.

Christ I had a 1979 Jaguar that had an auto fuel cutoff(1)

JL
(1) yes it worked(2)
(2) no it wasn't an unintended consequence of lucas being unable to
reliably supply power to the fuel pump :-)

From: Nev.. on
GB wrote:
> "Nev.." <idiot(a)mindless.com> wrote in
> news:45ca4f55$0$25321$5a62ac22(a)per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au:
>> And you very neatly ignored the bit where I also found that it did not
>> affect the fuel flow and therefore did not use any more fuel... no
>> wait.. you poo-poo'd that because it didn't suit your argument. BZZT.
>
> I didn't ignore it at all. In fact I addressed it quite
> comprehensively. Your fuel flow meter is not up to the task
> of measuring fuel flow with sufficient accuracy or repeatability
> to demonstrate the so-fundamental-that-it-shouldn't-need-discussing,-
> much-less-demonstrating principle of physics that's being
> discussed.

So for all intents and purposes, the amount of additional fuel consumed
when the headlights are turned on is immeasurable, so this "lights on =
more fuel" business exists in theory only.

Nev..
'04 CBR1100XX
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