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| Prius Technical Discussion This is a discussion on Regen boost @ low speed within the Prius Technical Discussion forums, part of the Toyota Prius Forums category; In case y'all haven't been following the thread on Prius_Technical_Stuff, I presented a nice little benchtop experiment that shows why ... |
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bahstahn
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My Car: Package: Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 |  In case y'all haven't been following the thread on Prius_Technical_Stuff, I presented a nice little benchtop experiment that shows why regen works way down to like 7 mph even if the ordinary voltage delivered by the MGs wouldn't be able to get anywhere near the battery voltage. http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/boost-hack/ . And in a different context using the real MG1, we were able to get spikes well over 400V just by manually making/breaking a shorting lead across the windings while cranking it slowly. . _H* |
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