On Jul 27, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > What happens to the air-con when stuck in traffic?
I'm wondering that myself. I was over at the dealership the other evening when the first one came in for me (a long story ...) looking it over. Since it was nearly 110 degrees F, we were sitting in the car with the power on, AC on. Blowers going, the car cooled down very quickly to a comfortable temperature and the AC kept things nice on its Auto setting. The drive batteries were relatively depleted. We were there going through all the gizmos on the fancy display for about an hour. About every ten minutes, the engine would start and run for two minutes, then shut down again. I conjecture that the AC compressor is driven by the auxiliary drive/ generating motor. Since it consumes a lot less energy to drive just the compressor, even a low charge in the drive batteries is enough to keep the AC up nicely. Once the drive batteries fall below a certain charge threshold, the gas engine turns on to charge it up. (That same drive/generating motor also operates as the engine starter ... and there is no gas engine powered reverse gear, reverse is all done electrically.) It is a fascinating car, something that I'll have a grand time studying. Mine (the second one) should be delivered August 5-10. Can't wait! Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
