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Old 11-26-2008, 05:33 PM   #68 (permalink)
Xringer
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Woburn Mass USA
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Little Red - '12 Toyota Prius c 2 Two
90 day: 57.82 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by Funny View Post
I like the idea you had for the Cruise Control, but what you are describing in this second section is the equivalent (though much more complicated) to installing a kill switch. If your car goes into Cut-off in neutral, it would shut off, it would not be able to keep turning without the assistance of the tranny to rotate it.
Oh yeah! Haha.. You are right! Near the bottom of the hill, I would have
to shift back into a gear and ease out the clutch to re-start it..

Oh well, I'll just stick to the basics. I still want some re-gen, but I guess
it's not going to be as much amperage..
I'm not sure a battery pack would want 30 second pluses of high amperage anyways.

I've been thinking of using a pot to pre-set the re-gen at only 100-300 watts
of re-charge. Have it come on with the brake lights and/or manual switch.

If I was on a long stretch of downhill road, getting about 40 MPG, I could
click on the re-gen, and adjust the pot so I was getting about 35 MPG,
IF I really wanted to charge up the pack for some reason.
Like if it was really low and I was not going back home to plug-in for a while..
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Current ride: 2014 RAV4 LE AWD (24 MPG)

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