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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
mnementh:
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--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 11, 2022, 11:51:42 am ---https://youtu.be/bHpCEUSWt7Q
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On a more serious note. As someone who did quite a lot of messing about in boats in his youth, to me that instinctively looks very top heavy. My guess is if you took that out on anything choppier than a millpond, or leant overboard too far, that thing would be upside down in the blink of an eye. :scared:
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Yeah, that's why the wheels flip out a la James Bond's TR7 Lotus British rustbox. Too bad these pontoons don't self-deploy like the TR-7's diving planes; I can't see any way to flip up the wheels and attach them without actually standing in the water to do it. The boat needs to be floating, or up on trailer jacks like in the video.
EDIT: I bet they make a point of telling you aboot the oars because you're gonna need them. :-DD
mnem
https://youtu.be/yeBqf6bYZak
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Hmmm, I had a totally different perspective as a cyclist. That thing is huge & heavy. They actually did mention in the video that it needs the electric assist to climb hills. I imagine it needs the electric assist just to get moving. To my mind, there was a distinct lack of detail on battery capacity, bicycle motor power and what the range of that thing is.
I imagine being in the rocky mountains, with 30 km of uphill, the sun is shining on the other side of the mountain, and the next town is in the valley on the other side ...
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Yeah, that was what I was alluding to with my "you're gonna need the oars..." comment... as in the duty cycle on that trolling motor will be aboot 3% due to the stoopit thing using a drill battery for power. ;)
mnem
*eBike-ily*
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 12, 2022, 10:03:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 12, 2022, 03:45:48 pm ---
But, nothing beats the sound of a supercharger. :D
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The current tractor has a 5cyl TDi engine, and the turbo whine when it starts to make more power at a steady rpm (cruise control, meet uphill) is very, very addictive.
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The Bimmer has a turbo but you wouldn't know it from the noise - there isn't any. In fact there's precious little engine noise at all, anything short of full throttle and all you hear is a gentle rumble from the tyres and suspension. All very civilised. Oddly I appreciate the quiet, despite spending the last 22 years driving a mid-engined car with the intakes and valve gear separated from my head by 10 inches and one thin steel engine access cover that with some carpet on it is basically the parcel shelf inside the cabin.
I am not a fan of turbo fitted engines in general, I've driven quite a few over the years and the laggy throttle response at low RPMs makes me very uncomfortable - if I'm going to have intake boosting give me a supercharger any day. Thankfully there's some clever cooperation goes on between the electric and petrol engines in the Bimmer with the electric motor filling in any gaps left by the turbo, and the only time you notice any turbo lag is on standing starts with hard acceleration. If I'd know it had a turbo before I'd driven it I'd have probably given it a miss based on past experience.
tautech:
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--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 12, 2022, 09:49:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 12, 2022, 10:27:35 am ---Depends which V4. The Taunus V4 went from 1.2 to 1.7 litres. The Essex V4 was either 1.7 or 2.0 litres. I've no idea without researching, what might have been fitted to US market Capris.
Considering the shoehorning that Triumph had to do to fit the 2.0 litre straight six into the Spitfire chassis to make the GT6, it's no surprise that only someone of supreme pig-headed stubbornness would attempt to do it with a V6 lump. :popcorn:
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These were the engines where one tops up the fuel and refills the oil tank.
Ending up behind it on the Autobahn is an exercise in blue smoke.
The V6 IIRC was the worst.
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Yep, Pops first Mk4 Zepher kept fouling one plug and mechanic suspected it had a broken ring from new.
Pop flicked it after a year IIRC and brought another one that went just fine unit a swift trip 6 5hr trip home with the bro-inlaw/my uncle up it blew a head gasket and that was the last Ford Pop ever owned.
Only a year or 2 later I started with Fords, Cortina Mk1 wagon, Mk3 sedan 1.6 crossflow, Mk3 sedan 2L OHC and last an Escort Mk2 1.6L Sport before I too learnt my lesson and never brought another. :horse:
Then almost all vehicle production ceased in NZ so rather than EU stuff NZ mainly sourced from Oz and the land of the rising sun. I went to GM/Aussie Holden after the tragic run with Fords and still have a 2002 Commodore we brought new.
GM lost a lot of followers when they closed their 50+ year old Aussie plants only a year or so back when they were already sending an Aussie developed grunter to the US and UK and since then the Mustang has gained a large foothold and munched on GM's lunch. :palm:
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GM are turds----the megalomaniacs in Detroit just had to micromanage GMH to death!
The only way you will buy a GM car in OZ these days is via an unofficial importer.
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Yep, we were just as shocked as you Aussies when the Holden closedown was announced.
Like Oz, NZ was full of Holdens everywhere you looked and now we're seeing them gradually disappear from the roads to be replaced mainly with rice burners of one sort or another.
Next I see gubbermints targeting diesels as they have in Europe but with the population densities of most of Oz and NZ there's little reason for it other than to appease the greenies that are so driven by the principles of the Paris accord they can't even read or understand the fine print ! :horse:
TERRA Operative:
Question time.
Anyone know of a way I can characterise a Tek 067-0625-00 Peak-to-Peak detector up to 1GHz or so, without a calibrated source or power meter?
I made my own a while back, and I need to characterise it so I can use it to calibrate and adjust my SG503 and SG504 and SG5030, etc.
Or, does anyone have the means to do this for me if I send you the thing to run it through its paces and send back at my expense? I have a spare enclosure and PCB in it if you can help out... :)
Zucca:
Today I bought about 40KWh LiFePO4 from China and 20KVA inverters from Arizona.
It feels strange.
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