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On 08/11/2014 08:37 PM, Chris Tromley via EV wrote: > Also, I've never heard of anyone with an electric motor with a > manual transmission or direct drive that chooses to use the clutch. > That's generally considered an awkward work-around for a problem > that should be fixed. > What is the problem, other than parasitic power loss? I have an S-10 conversion, manual transmission with clutch removed. ...but sometimes having one would be nice. In most conditions, I can stay in 2nd gear all the time, but when I get up to 40 mph I need to shift up to 3rd gear, that takes 5 seconds to let the motor slow down to match the transmission with no acceleration. Typically not an issue to slow from 40 to 37 mph while doing this.... BUT, sometimes I want to start off in 1st gear (up a hill) but then switch to 2nd gear. Having to wait the same 3-5 seconds seems like an eternity when there are cars behind you wondering why you are slowing from 20mph to 18 mph instead of continuing to accelerate up to 35mph. If your route has a lot of stop and go driving (especially with stops at the bottom of hills) or if you want to be able to shift quickly for racing or whatever....keeping the clutch may be worth the efficiency loss. I'm certainly not going to go to the trouble of finding and putting one back in...but if I was doing a conversion through a manual transmission I might leave the clutch in and play with it for a while to see if I wanted to keep it or ditch it. Jay -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlPp89EACgkQSWJjSgPNbM9k2ACfVZISXU92FKoj4BQxKcJoRB77 nZUAn26HItj5qypzg2Fnw9Y2izpWGdvk =1/iW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
