From: Paul Carmichael on
zymurgy escribió:

> On 11 Aug, 14:19, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypa...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Look, I'm just a bit busy for googling at the mo. If it is a ginge,
>> please just one reply pointing me at the conversation will suffice.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> http://viabtor.co.uk/- makes your car better apparently.
>
> Not as beautifully pointless as this ..
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUMP-VALVE-SIMULATOR-TURBO-WHISTLE-SOUND-BLOW-OFF-
NOISE-/350340578688?cmd=ViewItem

Didn't follow the link, but I reckon there's more blowoff valve simulators
than there are blowoff valves around here. My car's got a turbo - does that
mean it makes that silly noise? I don't here it from inside.

--
Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio), Orbea Dakar
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From: Thomas on
On Aug 11, 8:04 am, boots <bo...(a)despammed.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:19:41 +0200 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Paul
> Carmichael says:
>
> >http://viabtor.co.uk/- makes your car better apparently.
>
> I'll provide a plug with a green LED for only ¤25 thereby undercutting
> this lot

I sense a business opportunity. Surely this lot can come up with a
better totally useless object and make money off it. Use the profits
to fund strippers at the *oSM.



From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:19:41 +0200, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants(a)gmail.com>
wrote in <8cfmbfFaokU1(a)mid.individual.net>:
> Look, I'm just a bit busy for googling at the mo. If it is a ginge, please
> just one reply pointing me at the conversation will suffice.

> Thanks.

> http://viabtor.co.uk/ - makes your car better apparently.

Almost certainly just a capacitor across the 12 V supply. Any
capacitor that can smooth out the spikes and dips on a car's electrical
system would be nigh as big as the car, before you start to muse on the
effects of the inductance of the various positive rails between the
battery, the generator, the device, and the power-consuming components.

Snake-oil. Avoid!

--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
From: Pip Luscher on
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:10:18 +0100, geoff <raden(a)kateda.org> wrote:

>Are they really saying that the voltage regulators in the ECU aren't
>doing the job they were designed for?

Exactly: after all, an ECU has to work when the voltage dips quite
significantly when a not-so-new battery is cold-cranking on a winter
morning.

In fact, when the alternator went phut on my Guzzi Quota, the voltage
got so low on one journey that the tacho needle had drooped at least a
thousand RPM and the indicators were barely visible, but the engine
was running fine. It was the tacho droop that alerted me to the fact
that something was wrong - the bloody charge warning light hadn't come
on. As soon as I turned the headlights off the tacho sprang back up to
the correct revs.

--
-Pip
From: Ofnuts on
On 11/08/2010 17:04, boots wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:19:41 +0200 in uk.rec.motorcycles, Paul
> Carmichael says:
>
>> http://viabtor.co.uk/ - makes your car better apparently.
>
> I'll provide a plug with a green LED for only �25 thereby undercutting
> this lot


I already have a cheaper one with a much cooler blue LED. And it has an
USB plug so it will also charge my phone or GPS. Must be the
multi-function version.

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