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mnementh:

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--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 14, 2022, 01:37:33 am ---

>:D >:D >:D <runs for cover>   -Pat
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BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

mnem
*runs for cover too, in case the projectiles miss Pat*

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And it motivated me to put the LED puck light that I'd gotten months ago into the crawlspace so I could steal the ceramic lampholder.   :-DD

-Pat

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At least some good will come of that horrible trick we just played on the TEA...  :-DD

mnem
Well-played, Pat... well played... :clap:

vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: dl6lr on July 13, 2022, 01:51:29 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 01:18:33 pm ---That’s a feature.

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Renault's feature list:
  Use model train wires everywhere.
  Use low flexibility (nearly non-stranded) wire on moving parts, like doors.
  Use PVC insulation with plasticisers that will evaporate in very few years.
  Use M$ Windooze style error messages like "on-board electronics failure" (Real error: faulty brake pedal switch)
  Locate fuses at the most inconvenient places (I.e. back lights fuses under the ECU and battery)

Don't ask how I know...

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Occasionally, Renault get things right, like the R12---ugly as sin (though better looking than an R16) quite fast, good handling, & very  reliable.
My first one, was an old "roughie" which was about 20 years old, & I had next to no problems with it, apart from a failure of the gearbox, which was still worth fixing.
It was the "Australianised" version, with all Australian Bosch electrics (the distributor points were the same as a Holden 6).

Eventually, after a lot of pretty much trouble free km the gear problem recurred, & I opted to buy another old R12 "roughie", this time a bit later model Station wagon.
It had the original French electrics, which gave a bit of trouble, & was a lot more beat up than the original, but I got quite a few km out of it, before the engine failed.
No worries said I, I've got a good engine in the dead one!

The bastards changed the primary shaft on the gearbox, & a couple of other things, so it wouldn't fit!
Ok, I bought the right engine, fitted it, drove the wagon for a bit longer, then ditched it for an early 1980s Toyota Corona.

The Toyota did what Toyotas do, & gave trouble free motoring for years, till the engine started to smoke.

Becoming a bit older, & disinclined to get all greasy & messy working on a "second car", I in turn ditched that, & looking around, saw a Renault R25.
It was lovely!
Far from the fairly Spartan R12, it had a luxurious interior, auto box, early LCD instruments, a built in stereo , & a synthesised voice warning system.
It behaved itself on my test drive, & I got a bad attack of the "Vroom , Vrooms" & bought it.

Well it was a heap of crap! ----the little chap under the dash would rabbit on about non-existent faults,  the stereo didn't work & the thing which was supposed to tell you how far you could drive on the amount of fuel in your tank "lied in its teeth".
I could live with all this stuff, but when the "Electronic" auto transmission went crazy, that was pretty much it..
I made a few desultory efforts, but my heart wasn't in it!

So from the crap looking but reliable R12 to the gorgeous, but really crap R25 was a sad come down!


vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 05:01:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 13, 2022, 01:09:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 07:45:24 am ---Hmm, that's odd, because my car also has a turbo and I can honestly say that I have not noticed any lag in it cutting in at all.

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Turbodiesels are better in this regard than turbo petrol engines, partially because any diesel has a flatter broader torque curve so there's less of a  low spot and it's  less noticeable, and one also just doesn't expect the throttle response from a diesel that one does from a petrol engine. Plus you're used to a car with a 0-60 time of 10 seconds or longer (I'm not sure exactly which model you have), whereas I'm really talking about sport models more in 6 to 7 second bracket where these things are much more noticeable.

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0 to 60 of 10 seconds, where did you get that from, I can assure you that the quoted figure for my car is 8.6 seconds to 62mph. That figure not such a long ago would have been cloud-cuckoo-land for such a large and heavy car, and would have been certainly the level expected of a sports car. It is a testimony to modern engineers that such times today are indeed possible, even without resorting to mnem's sticking a big V8 in the engine bay,
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Bah! Humbug!--back in 1973, the Australian Chrysler E49 Charger did 0-100kmh(62mph)in just 6.1 seconds, and that didn't need "no Steenkin' V8", or a turbocharger, just a honking big six with triple 45 DCOE Weber carburettors.
And you could buy the thing off the showroom floor & take Mum for a Sunday drive in it!

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or indeed Anders weight reduction techniques that Colin Chapman was so good at (along with chassis tweaks), and still being economical and low emissions. Likewise I'm not sure that a car that measures just 4.8 metres long can be called a land yacht, there are plenty of cars longer and nowhere in the world is  that more true than America. It is true that American cars are nowhere as large as they once used to be, but they are still pretty big when compared with European cars.

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PS:-Chrysler had a penchant for recycling model names, so the Aussie Charger shares its name with
the Dodge car of the same name, & very little else.
The Dodge is a bit more urbane, & not quite so "hardcore" as the Oz one! ;D

Zucca:

--- Quote from: m k on July 13, 2022, 08:16:44 am ---One sauna day around one Christmas we used 108 kWh.

BTW,
it's not the heating method, it's air.

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about 11.84 Euro here in USA, SC. How much you paid?

Zucca:

--- Quote from: tautech on July 13, 2022, 02:39:30 am ---
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 13, 2022, 01:30:52 am ---Today I bought about 40KWh LiFePO4 from China and 20KVA inverters from Arizona.

It feels strange.

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Winston ?
http://en.winston-battery.com/?cnxdc/

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