On Monday, 12 September 2016 6:53:56 PM AEST Ray via luv-main wrote: > While some of the Melbourne trains can do regenerative braking, I have > been told the rectifer stations cannot handle this so it is not used in > Melbourne. The problem apparently is not enough funds availible for > power supply upgrade, inspite of there being projected excellent savings > can be acheived.
About a year ago I attended a lecture by an EE who works on the train system. He described in detail how they do regenerative braking and use super- capacitors to store the energy. Lack of money is a problem. Too much is being wasted on stupid things like FTTN which is turning out to be much more expensive than the original FTTP plan. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
