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Re: some rare domestic ones [explorerx4]

by xwesx on Fri May 15 09:42:59 PDT 2009

Ugh. That lime green Challenger is overpowering. Last summer, I saw a new Charger in Delta Junction that was painted just like this! Yes, it was just as overpowering.

Concerned9 answers

by pat85 on Tue Dec 09 13:01:11 PST 2008

First. on some 12 volt starter batteries, the car body is connected to one of the terminals. Usually the negative terminal, but I once had an MG with a positive ground. That is not true of the hybrid batteries. Each terminal,is connected to the electric motor (and charging circuitry.) Although they are not intertwined like house wiring which is 220 volts center tap and which are no longer intertwined in fuze boxes, junction boxes and wire pull boxes. The hybrid battery wires are physically close enough to cancel EMF's. look at how close he contacts are on the motor. In any case the Emf's basically cancel. As for the induced magnetic fields they are described in Maxwell's Equations. Firrst, there are no magnetic dipoles. The Delta operator times the B vector field is zero. There are magnetic field generated by a wire carrying current, Each wire induces a magnetic field according to,the right- hand-rule. If the thumb is pointed in the direction of the current, the magnetic field lines will be in the direction of the curled fingers. If you do that for both wires from the hybrid battery, current is going in opposite directions, so the magnetic fields cancel.

Another useful light...

by ny540i6 on Thu Dec 27 15:43:10 PST 2007

.... or, how to spend taxpayers' money.... Picture this: "Y" junction, governed by stop signs on the two feeder roads, both of which can be somewhat busy. Road "A" has a traffic light about two blocks back from the junction. For several years this has worked, with the rare incident of "who was here first" at the intersection, however no real mayhem, since all traffic was flowing into the same direction, sightlines were good etc... so, of course, the city "fixed" it. Traffic lights were added to both feeders right before the "Y". The result? Timing so screwed up that traffic was backing up on both sides. The solution? Add human beings - traffic folks to direct people to ignore the lights when it got too congested. You say... remove the lights? Well no, since that would mean admitting that it was a mistake to place them there. The latest idiocy? Paving some of the grassy delta in the middle of the "Y" so the traffic agents have a place to park their car. And by the way, most of the time, most of the agents simply look up at the light for guidance before telling traffic to do anything.

"The dealer tried to screw

by gasman1 on Thu Apr 26 06:33:09 PDT 2007

me by not kicking in the holdback cash!" Just kidding! I had a 15 hour (no lunch) workday yesterday and opened up to 82 new posts in my favorite discussion group. Geo's comment gave me a chuckle. I'm surprised nobody used it yet. Joel - I was also with the US Army in Alaska. Arrived in Delta Junction "Cold Regions Test Center" in mid-OCT and left 6 months later. It's an absolutely beautiful and fascinating place! That was 30 years ago. My body could take the -50 degree temps then, but I wouldn't do it again.

Re: 120,000 Mile Club - any members here? [mark_wny]

by deltacadillac on Sat Sep 09 23:01:25 PDT 2006

I am happy and proud to say that i have over 258,000 miles on my 1988 ElDorado the engine has never been taken apart nothing but general matinance untill last winter i had to replace the fuel pump and sending unit. Since i only paid $900.00 for this car im thinking i got a bargain as i have put 62,000 of these miles on the car myself :) Johnny Rogers Delta Junction Alaska

Just returned from road trip to Alaska (from Seattle)

by nw_viking on Sat Jun 17 15:52:03 PDT 2006

I will provide more detail in the near future, but I drove approximately 4500 miles with one passenger and about 150 lbs of luggage (total of 550 lbs). We drove to Dawson Creek, BC and took the Alaska Highway all the way to Delta Junction, AK. Then we drove on to Fairbanks, Denali, Anchorage, Seward, and Haines. From Haines we took the Alaskan Ferry to Juneau where I added a few more miles. The Prius (2006 package 8) then got a well-deserved rest on the ferry back to Bellingham, WA. For the most part, I pushed the vehicle fairly hard -- keeping it in cruise at 55/60/65 (100/90/80 kph in Canada) as posted. Of course there were a few bumpy stretches where I had to slow down, and a few construction areas with loose gravel where I did 20/30 mph. My overall mileage (per computer) was 48.6 before I started the trip (2500 miles on odometer), it now says 49.9. So I averaged over 50 mpg. I still need to compute mpg based on fillups. While the Alcan is mostly paved, it is far from being a good highway. Maybe 30% very good, 40% bumpy, 29 % rough, and 1% with long stretches of loose gravel in construction zones. I've got a few rock chips in the hood, just above the 3M clear-bra line. One bad one left a small dent, courtesy of an oncoming semi that didn't feel the need to slow down much over a loose gravel stretch. While the 3M bra certainly prevented a lot of chips, I would recommend to anyone considering a purchase to ask their installer to cover as much of the hood as possible. I have 4 or 5 small chips just above the line (some prior to the trip), and a couple just below the line (prior to installation of clear bra). Oh, the trip was GREAT!!! Saw tons of wildlife (eagles, puffins, black bears, brown bears, moose, caribou, buffalo, Dall sheep, wolves, humpback whales, orcas, seals and otters) and numerous glaciers. One last thing....I purchased the Monster iCarCharger for my iPod nano just before the trip. It works great (no feedback loop). I loaded most (AAC format) of my CD collection onto the iPod the night before the trip. I put the iPod into album shuffle mode. When I turned the car off, all I had to do was hit play after restarting and the iPod picked up where it left off. Never repeated a song (except the ones that occurred on more than one album). There were some long stretches with no radio stations, so the iPod came in quite handy. One sour note -- no navigation data for Alaska. I guess GPS satellite data can't be picked up very well that far north, so Toyota (and I think all of other manufacturers) didn't bother to load Alaska map data into the car. Now in reality, I was getting some GPS data in southern Alaska, but I only checked it a couple of times. It seemed to work for the most part in the Yukon on the Alcan, so I think it would work to some degree in southern Alaska. The Toyota dealership said there are supposed to be new satellites next year that will allow GPS to work in Alaska, at which time one could load map data for Alaska. BTW, I liked the Toyota dealership in Fairbanks, but they forgot to make adjustments in air pressure on the tires after rotation. I didn't discover this until I reached Seward.