Funny Little Fan in my 98 Prius

hdrygas · 09-06-2004, 09:09 PM

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Labeling is in Japanese..what's RV

Recreation Vehicle, a small travel trailer, motor home of various sizes. RV come in all shapes and sizes. Usually have a 12 electrical system but use an inverter to "hook up" to an outside 120V source. Usually at a "campground" a glorified parking lot with landscaping, some more some less that lets "RV" get power, water, and waste disposal hook up. It is an American thing. Some folks around here call that "camping" We like to get out and about. I have a RV a pop up tent trailer. Driving it is lower than the window level of my Ford Explorer. Get to the parking site a RV site with hook ups or a US Forest Service campground, and you crank up the top with tent walls. But don't think I suffer. The battery provides power. I have a propane refrigerator, propane heat, hot water heater, running water from a tank with a pump to provide water pressure. Toilette and shower with storage tank when you are away from hook up. First class camping. My wife has limited patience for sleeping on the ground away from a shower.

DaveinOlyWA · 09-06-2004, 09:21 PM

recreational vehicle, the inverter is used to convert ac to dc and vice versa. i have two on my RV. i cant for the life of me understand why they do this. realize that the DC power i have is rectified AC (rectified means that the neg component of the sine wave AC signal has been removed or in some cases, the neg signal is removed, the polarity reversed, and the added back to the orginal signal. this is done in DC because to not do so would result in a net voltage of zero)

why i couldnt go straight from the generator to the ac is beyond me. the reason i have two inverters is one runs only on battery power ( the smaller one) while the other runs for higher current needs and must have engine running to work.

the problem is that output from an inverter produces a square wave which isnt always well liked by various AC power components. also each time the power is converted, power losses occur.

DaveinOlyWA · 09-06-2004, 09:49 PM

inverter converts DC to AC

Frank Hudon · 09-06-2004, 09:56 PM

Hannah does the wire harness plug into a black flex loom harness that goes under the front carpet just at the body pan stiffner that the front of the seat mounts on?

hannah · 09-06-2004, 09:58 PM

will let you know once I check it...

DaveinOlyWA · 09-06-2004, 10:35 PM

what we need is a japanese intrepter. you should take a good closeup of the print and post it here. we have a few posters from japan. maybe they can help you out.

hannah · 09-06-2004, 10:37 PM

Good suggestion..shall do at some stage..

bookrats · 09-07-2004, 03:34 PM

Just to clarify: Hannah has a MK 1 Prius (the one sold in the late 1990s, only in Japan.)

DaveinOlyWA · 09-07-2004, 03:37 PM

hence the need for a japenese translator.

mspencer · 09-10-2004, 09:28 PM

I took 5 semesters of Japanese -- how can I be of service? :-)

(more importantly, I can do the rough dictionary lookup and whatnot, turn an image from someone's digital camera into actual Japanese text, and THEN we can babelfish or get a Japanese person or something. I can NOT speak this language in a real conversation, without like 5x more dead air than speech. I suck at this language.)

Because of my lack of ability, please get lots of text detail. Unfamiliar kanji is difficult for me, and I only know about 300 kanji out of the 2000 required for normal adult literacy in Japan. I should be able to see the shape and direction of each individual stroke of each character clearly, or else I might not be able to read something. A native speaker wouldn't have that problem.

--Michael Spencer

09-06-2004, 09:21 PM	#22
DaveinOlyWA Opps !! I Did it Again!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Puget Sound, WA Posts: 9,651 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5	recreational vehicle, the inverter is used to convert ac to dc and vice versa. i have two on my RV. i cant for the life of me understand why they do this. realize that the DC power i have is rectified AC (rectified means that the neg component of the sine wave AC signal has been removed or in some cases, the neg signal is removed, the polarity reversed, and the added back to the orginal signal. this is done in DC because to not do so would result in a net voltage of zero) why i couldnt go straight from the generator to the ac is beyond me. the reason i have two inverters is one runs only on battery power ( the smaller one) while the other runs for higher current needs and must have engine running to work. the problem is that output from an inverter produces a square wave which isnt always well liked by various AC power components. also each time the power is converted, power losses occur. __________________ My 2006: Last tank 463.1 miles @49.2 pump (49.4 computer) 4.22 cpm winter mpg 50.70 summer mpg 54.59 lifetime: 33,038.3 miles 52.79 mpg pump (54.04 mpg computer) 5.74 cpm My 2007 Zenn Driven 5945 miles, 2.01 cpm/ 105 mpg (at $2.05/gal), 4.04 miles/ Kwh Savings over my Prius $302.66 The Corolla...573.26 The REAL SAVINGS from not driving Corolla 657.39 +Prius= 958.18 (excludes maintenance costs...would be unfair to ICE vehicles) My Plate: DUALPWR (Dual Power)

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09-06-2004, 09:49 PM	#23
DaveinOlyWA Opps !! I Did it Again!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Puget Sound, WA Posts: 9,651 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5	inverter converts DC to AC

09-06-2004, 09:56 PM	#24
Frank Hudon Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 4,144 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Hannah does the wire harness plug into a black flex loom harness that goes under the front carpet just at the body pan stiffner that the front of the seat mounts on?

09-06-2004, 09:58 PM	#25
hannah Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 54 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	will let you know once I check it...

09-06-2004, 10:35 PM	#26
DaveinOlyWA Opps !! I Did it Again!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Puget Sound, WA Posts: 9,651 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5	what we need is a japanese intrepter. you should take a good closeup of the print and post it here. we have a few posters from japan. maybe they can help you out.

09-06-2004, 10:37 PM	#27
hannah Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 54 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Good suggestion..shall do at some stage..

09-07-2004, 03:34 PM	#28
bookrats Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 2,843 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	Just to clarify: Hannah has a MK 1 Prius (the one sold in the late 1990s, only in Japan.)

09-07-2004, 03:37 PM	#29
DaveinOlyWA Opps !! I Did it Again!! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: South Puget Sound, WA Posts: 9,651 My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #4 Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 5	hence the need for a japenese translator.

09-10-2004, 09:28 PM	#30
mspencer Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Council Bluffs, Iowa Posts: 102 My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0	I took 5 semesters of Japanese -- how can I be of service? :-) (more importantly, I can do the rough dictionary lookup and whatnot, turn an image from someone's digital camera into actual Japanese text, and THEN we can babelfish or get a Japanese person or something. I can NOT speak this language in a real conversation, without like 5x more dead air than speech. I suck at this language.) Because of my lack of ability, please get lots of text detail. Unfamiliar kanji is difficult for me, and I only know about 300 kanji out of the 2000 required for normal adult literacy in Japan. I should be able to see the shape and direction of each individual stroke of each character clearly, or else I might not be able to read something. A native speaker wouldn't have that problem. --Michael Spencer