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Originally Posted by Funny
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.
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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..