***Motors Chat Thread Round 3***

Ded_Zebra

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Wasn't me anyhow. Just as well you didn't head over towards tallaght though, you'd still be up there!

That's the way we went up

Not a bother until we were nearly at the top (where we got beached)

BUBBLE WRAP

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTTeSw8S54

No clue but from this video it looks like the F-16 RC planes are fuelled with Petrol/Diesel.

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

That R/C plane i absolutely brilliant!! I'd love one of them or a helicopter!

Probably a petrol engine?

That is pretty cool alright. My friends dad collects the Nitro and petrol rc cars/jeeps.. He has like 4, had 5 but he crashed one. There very loud..

He has like one like this but it has more like a nascar shell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zni_zYPKV2o

Supergurrier

HUBBA hUBBA

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/pio-avh1400dvd-pioneer-avh-14000dvd.html

dgt

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

delete your pm's dgt

498 free spaces...!

langdang

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Anybody good with electronics? :P need a question answered

Vague question, but try me!

BUBBLE WRAP

Supergurrier wrote: »

HUBBA hUBBA

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/pio-avh1400dvd-pioneer-avh-14000dvd.html

Oh, Tis nice.. 200 POUND ..

MetzgerMeister

Supergurrier wrote: »

HUBBA hUBBA

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/pio-avh1400dvd-pioneer-avh-14000dvd.html

Can that kind of thing fit in any car or do they make certain models for certain cars?

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

Oh, Tis nice.. 200 Euro isn't really bad either..

Look at it again, that's 200 £STG

BUBBLE WRAP

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Look at it again, that's 200 £STG

ok

MuppetCheck

Supergurrier wrote: »

HUBBA hUBBA

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/pio-avh1400dvd-pioneer-avh-14000dvd.html

I paid not a whole lot more than that for an f930bt with nav. Shop around, the cash would go further secondhand and you're safe enough if you buy right.

MuppetCheck

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Can that kind of thing fit in any car or do they make certain models for certain cars?

It will work in any car, you can get leads for the stereo controls for most cars.

dar83

It's all about the f940bt these days! :P

It's on my hit list!

MuppetCheck

dar83 wrote: »

It's all about the f940bt these days! :P

It's on my hit list!

They look the same, and you can put the software on the 930 I believe. Must do it some weekend but I don't know what the differences are otherwise.

dar83

Well the 930bt has been discontinued now and the 940 can actually be gotten new cheaper.

The only main difference is the 940 supports multi video out, for rear headrest screens etc... It's not exactly a feature that I'd require though, unless I fancied entertaining the car behind be in traffic. haha

MuppetCheck

dar83 wrote: »

Well the 930bt has been discontinued now and the 940 can actually be gotten new cheaper.

The only main difference is the 940 supports multi video out, for rear headrest screens etc... It's not exactly a feature that I'd require though, unless I fancied entertaining the car behind be in traffic. haha

Well I won't be doing that anyway, the only thing that I would add would be a reversing camera for the novelty as much as anything else.

Ardennes1944

That's a fantastic price for that head unit, was way more when I was looking for one a few months back

Toyotafanboi

langdang wrote: »

Vague question, but try me!

i'm trying to work out how many electric units my printer uses, so i need to find out its wattage.

the inverter on the plug cable says its 24v - 1.5 amp.

so wattage = voltage x amps, so i have a 30w printer? correct?

so if i run my printer for 1.5 hours constantly per evening every evening, at a unit rate of 15c per unit, it will only cost roughly 20c a month to run?

:P

Ded_Zebra

24x1.5=36watts

36/1000=0.036kW

0.036x1.5=0.054kWh

0.054x15=0.81c Fairly sure thats right per day

so if it's a 30 day month 24.3c so yeah you were right

Big Nasty

Think I would be more concerned about the ink!

langdang

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i'm trying to work out how many electric units my printer uses, so i need to find out its wattage.

the inverter on the plug cable says its 24v - 1.5 amp.

so wattage = voltage x amps, so i have a 30w printer? correct?

so if i run my printer for 1.5 hours constantly per evening every evening, at a unit rate of 15c per unit, it will only cost roughly 20c a month to run?

:P

Sounds like a strange voltage, you sure it's 24. But thats the basic principle alright P=V x I.
Cost of ink will break ya long before electricity does. Just looked at the back of my all-in-one jobby, no external inverter so 230V, 0.25A, so nearly 60W.

pred racer

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i'm trying to work out how many electric units my printer uses, so i need to find out its wattage.

the inverter on the plug cable says its 24v - 1.5 amp.

so wattage = voltage x amps, so i have a 30w printer? correct?

so if i run my printer for 1.5 hours constantly per evening every evening, at a unit rate of 15c per unit, it will only cost roughly 20c a month to run?

:P

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

24x1.5=36watts

36/1000=0.036kW

0.036x1.5=0.054kWh

0.054x15=0.81c Fairly sure thats right per day

so if it's a 30 day month 24.3c so yeah you were right

You're both correct, the only thing is thats the rating of the transformer/psu. Which means thats what it can supply without problems. That doesnt mean thats what your printer actually uses! I would expect your printer to use about half that rating, when its actually printing( normally you try not to run psu's at anywhere near max except for brief periods), when its just sitting there the current draw will be in mA. So Id say halve that estimate at least. Btw the manual will give you a load and idle and standby current draw.
Hope that helps.

Edit: 36W would be alot of power to use to shuffle around some paper and spray some ink at it.
Think of how much 'work' a 55w bulb in your car is doing for instance.

Ded_Zebra

pred racer wrote: »

You're both correct, the only thing is thats the rating of the transformer/psu. Which means thats what it can supply without problems. That doesnt mean thats what your printer actually uses! I would expect your printer to use about half that rating, when its actually printing( normally you try not to run psu's at anywhere near max except for brief periods), when its just sitting there the current draw will be in mA. So Id say halve that estimate at least. Btw the manual will give you a load and idle and standby current draw.
Hope that helps.

Edit: 36W would be alot of power to use to shuffle around some paper and spray some ink at it.
Think of how much 'work' a 55w bulb in your car is doing for instance.

Yeah I meant to throw that in that it'll cost that much to run if the printer is at its maximum load through all that time so it'll cost even less as the transformer will be able to supply more current than the printer will ever need.

Stheno

Who was offering an AA book recently?

Toyotafanboi

Thanks lads, its not so much a printer as a vinyl plotter.

just trying to factor the price of powering it into costs, seems like its not that much so

dar83

There we some amount of idiots out this morning...

First was the woman in a Suzuki Jimny or other such pretend jeep who was behind me on the Malahide road at the Darndale roundabout, who decided that beeping at me to progress was the way to go, even though the traffic was backed up and not moving and I was leaving the yellow box directly in front of me free... the lights ahead did change though... idiot.

Then we have Mr. 131 D Discovery who decided to try and skip the queue when turning off for Blanch shopping centre off the N3 and tried to dive in front of me as the traffic was just starting to move. Luckily for him I noticed the large truck that was behind him also doing near enough the 80km/h limit and I braked quickly enough to let him in as he sh@t his pants and the truck driver leaned on the horn as hard as he could. Could have been a nasty new Discovery mess otherwise.

Venting done. :P

langdang

In fairness, a jimny will do things offroad that no softroader could. As long as 4wd is selected when needed. As for the rest of the venting, yeah I hear you!

Ardennes1944

saw an absolutely beautiful tt 225 in Mahon Point last night in grey, with the v6 rear valance. want

Ardennes1944

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

saw an absolutely beautiful tt 225 in Mahon Point last night in grey, with the v6 rear valance. want

There's a nice black 156 in your parking space today :pac:

Ardennes1944

i saw that! bastardo! ive only 3 hours in college so a 2 hour parking disc will do today

dgt

Thanks to the snow, my gaskets still haven't arrived. Marvellous :mad:

dar83

langdang wrote: »

In fairness, a jimny will do things offroad that no softroader could. As long as 4wd is selected when needed. As for the rest of the venting, yeah I hear you!

It wasn't meant as a sleight on the Jimny, it was more on its driver, who would clearly never be driving it off road, but of course had the headlights and mahoosive fogs on as well.

The "must buy jeep, safer and higher road view, but I can't drive a big/proper one so it must be small etc..." mentality.