On 06 Jun 2003 07:15:02 -0400
ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> PWM is a method (as well as a proprietary trademark of Allis Chalmers,
> now Fiat-Allis as PWM was not sold to Komatsu or Kalmar when the
> Forklift divisions were split away) but most folks, for some long time,
> considerd that since the most cost effective manufacturing method was a
> monolithic SCR for controlling power flow, that pulse width modulation
> was not really practical as opposed to controlling "percent on" time.
> true PWM requires cascading transistors, and the tech has only gotten
> good in the last 5 or 6 years in manufacturing small and strong enough
> transistors (Field Effect Transistors) to really make PWM work. one of
> the real tricks to making pwm work is to use regenitive braking to
> control the powerbraking as a means of sinking heat energy to the motive
> battery. 

Ya, and they look GREAT in red.

Miark

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