Entertainment for the Geeks...

Check out these wonderful videos...sure to please Electrical Geeks..

This one's about a 500KV line when opened on load...





This one's about how a transformer burns in the event of a short-circuit...

Talk of DC Machines!!

For all the difficulty in that goddamn subject called Electrical Machines, I think this video I got from metacafe gives a good feeling about it...

G-CON is the G-force control technology. The impact absorbing body structure of Honda cars is designed in response to the need to soften the impact of a collision from any direction.

To fight rear impact, the fuel tank has been placed beneath the front seats of the Honda City ZX - the safest area in the entire vehicle.

As a protection against front impact, Honda has used arch-shaped front side frames. This dramatically improves absorption of collision impact and helps to reduce deformation of the passenger compartment.

To withstand side impact, a floor cross member is located directly beneath the center pillar, without being offset.

That means the collision impact is largely absorbed by the floor. This helps protect the fuel tank and reduce passenger injuries.

With this post, I end my panegyrics of Honda's technologies (much to fish's relief...?)

The i-DSI engine..

Honda's intelligent Dual and Sequential Ignition (i-DSI) engine is the second i-Series engine, next to i-VTEC, that employs compact combustion chambers and two spark plugs per cylinder with individually controlled ignition timing for more rapid and complete combustion.

The purpose of the i-DSI engine is to achieve rapid and complete combustion. Narrower valve angles and other refinements have been employed to make the combustion chambers as compact as possible. The i-DSI engine employs an innovative twin spark plug system (two spark plugs per cylinder) for maximum combustion efficiency. In addition, the combustion chamber has been engineered to promote greater swirl of the air-fuel mixture.

The intake manifold shape has also been shaped and its length optimized. This results in optimizing the combustion process as a means of achieving high performance, high fuel economy and low toxic emissions.

Other refinements include world-leading friction reduction technology utilizing molybdenum-impregnated piston skirts, a rear-port exhaust system and an oblique-feed catalytic converter. And though the 1497 cc long-stroke engine has two valves per cylinder and only a single overhead camshaft, its output is a respectable 77Bhp at 5000 rpm with 125 Nm of torque peaking at a low 2700 rpm.