Duck Pond Redneckery

[Kiwi303]

Big stuff runs 400V 3 phase here... I have a 3 phase arc welder from my aunties shed after uncle died, it's currently hooked up to run single phase, but I doubt US voltages would even warm it up!

 

[Duck]

Big stuff runs 400V 3 phase here... I have a 3 phase arc welder from my aunties shed after uncle died, it's currently hooked up to run single phase, but I doubt US voltages would even warm it up!

We have 400v 3-phase here too but it's mainly just industrial & commercial buildings that are wired for it. You can get a residential property wired for it but there isn't much point unless you're running a business out of your garage or workshop or something & need to run a big welder or a 10+ HP electric motor or something.

 

[krelithous]

We have 400v 3-phase here too but it's mainly just industrial & commercial buildings that are wired for it. You can get a residential property wired for it but there isn't much point unless you're running a business out of your garage or workshop or something & need to run a big welder or a 10+ HP electric motor or something.

or to charge your prius up

 

[Duck]

or to charge your prius up

Oh geez.

Don't you ever stop talking about Priuseses? Are they your favorite car?

Admit it, you got a thing for Priuseses.

Oh, and for your info-mation, you don't need 3 phase to charge a Prius. The chargers for them are not much more than composting bins. The heat produced by decaying flowers is converted to electricity & used to charge the Prius. It's where the term "flower power" comes from.

It's true. I read it on the internet!

Right after I typed it.

 

[krelithous]

Oh geez.

Don't you ever stop talking about Priuseses? Are they your favorite car?

Admit it, you got a thing for Priuseses.

Oh, and for your info-mation, you don't need 3 phase to charge a Prius. The chargers for them are not much more than composting bins. The heat produced by decaying flowers is converted to electricity & used to charge the Prius. It's where the term "flower power" comes from.

It's true. I read it on the internet!

Right after I typed it.

haha did I ruffle your feathers duckling yea I have a thing for Priuses it's entertaining to watch the idiots driving em when there thinking there saving gas and helping out the environment when there really not going slow as shit so the gas motor don't kick on. I know you don't nee a 3 phase to charge prius . I prefer my veggie burner they don't cost me crap to run except maint. and id'e love to see a prius run for 40 years

 

[Duck]

haha did I ruffle your feathers duckling yea I have a thing for Priuses it's entertaining to watch the idiots driving em when there thinking there saving gas and helping out the environment when there really not going slow as **** so the gas motor don't kick on. I know you don't nee a 3 phase to charge prius . I prefer my veggie burner they don't cost me crap to run except maint. and id'e love to see a prius run for 40 years

Cold starts wear out engines fast. So if a Prius is designed to run primarily on it's batteries & only use the gas engine when it needs to go "fast" or accelerate quicker, I can't see how the engine would last that long. Maybe the engineers figure that the electric miles will compensate for the shorter life of the gas engine so people won't notice.

 

[8978]

Shouldn't this be in it's own Prius thread?

 

[Duck]

Shouldn't this be in it's own Prius thread?

Yeah. We need a thread about Priuses. Krelithous would be on cloud 9. He loves those things.

 

[Duck]

Take a look at these screenshots from one of their commercials. (Type "prius harmony commercial" into YouTube if you want to see it)

If we all drive a Prius we'll all be in harmony with nature & live in a utopian society. A prius for me, a prius for you, blah blah blah. It's a level of propaganda that even the Nazi party would've been impressed with.







What a load of bullshit. Anybody who thinks hybrid-electric vehicles are environmentally friendly needs to do a little bit of reading about the batteries in those things. The manufacturing & disposal processes, particularly.

 

[SaddleTramp]

Since my air compressor is dead I think I'm gonna put my old one back in service.

This one hasn't been touched except to move it around in storage & to pull the starter rope once or twice a year to splash some oil around, since I bought my electric one 18 years ago.

How about a Power Washer made?
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I pulled it out & washed 18 years of dust & bird **** off of it.

I think I'll change the oil in the engine & pump, then get the engine running & if the pump doesn't immediately fly apart I'll fix the plumbing on it & see if it'll build pressure. If it reaches 125 psi I'll run it with the drain valve open for about 30 minutes & shut it off & pull the engine off & convert it to electric. Running it for 30 minutes would just be to clean out rust from the engine before shutting it down & putting it in storage til I have a use for a 5 HP engine.


I also have this:

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This was a failed experiment from when I was about 15. That tank is made of PIPE. Not sheet metal. It's extremely heavy. Two guys can barely lift it. I had to use a chain-fall & a tree branch to get it up onto that little wheeled skid/dolly thing by myself when I was 15 & it's been on it ever since.

I knew how to weld but didn't know jack **** about how to plumb up an air compressor. It worked, and would build up pressure but it leaked like crazy & there's no unloader valve. So once it shuts off, it won't restart again without popping the breaker on the back of the motor.

I grabbed the pump flywheel today & verified it's not seized.

That thing takes up a lot of floor space & it cannot be stood up on end because the pump will spit oil everywhere.

 

[Duck]

How about a Power Washer made?

 

[krelithous]

Cold starts wear out engines fast. So if a Prius is designed to run primarily on it's batteries & only use the gas engine when it needs to go "fast" or accelerate quicker, I can't see how the engine would last that long. Maybe the engineers figure that the electric miles will compensate for the shorter life of the gas engine so people won't notice.

I live in commieforina who said anything about cold starts . what will be really entertaining is to see try to come up with a road tax for the eletricty that a hybrid generates when you break . there just a waste of money and don't pay for themselves unless you own it for 20 years . and theres to many raw materials in them that destroy the earth. i'm sure that the government will be trying to figure out what to do with all the old batteries 10 years from now from all the hybrids oh wait that will be job creation

 

[Duck]

I live in California who said anything about cold starts .

When you're an object that's most comfortable at 185 degrees, 70 is pretty dang friggin' cold.

 

[krelithous]

When you're an object that's most comfortable at 185 degrees, 70 is pretty dang friggin' cold.

no shit . yep 70 is cool to me now. i'm gonna hate moving and havint to readjust to the winter

 

[Duck]

no **** . yep 70 is cool to me now. i'm gonna hate moving and havint to readjust to the winter

So you're gonna sell your mansions & move to the United States?

 

[krelithous]

So you're gonna sell your mansions & move to the United States?

yea . and I have been looking at pre emissions trucks to

 

[krelithous]

Take a look at these screenshots from one of their commercials. (Type "prius harmony commercial" into YouTube if you want to see it)

If we all drive a Prius we'll all be in harmony with nature & live in a utopian society. A prius for me, a prius for you, blah blah blah. It's a level of propaganda that even the Nazi party would've been impressed with.

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What a load of bull****. Anybody who thinks hybrid-electric vehicles are environmentally friendly needs to do a little bit of reading about the batteries in those things. The manufacturing & disposal processes, particularly.

are you on crack I felt like I was watching yellow submarine . but it's true that people need to read up and get the facts

 

[8978]

And drive a Prius

 

[krelithous]

And drive a Prius

I never would

 

[Duck]

And drive a Prius