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Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes?
Author: Bart
Date: 04-29-2016 - 15:40

Dynamic braking blends into hydraulically applied mechanical brakes at slow speeds.

Auxiliary power supply equipment(APSE)feeds juice picked up from the third rail to the A/C, lights, various pumps, etc. Short that out and you're left with just dynamics.

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  BART: Testing equipment wire caused crash, not car or operators J 04-29-2016 - 05:35
  Re: BART: Testing equipment wire caused crash, not car or operators jst3751 04-29-2016 - 11:32
  Re: BART: Testing equipment wire caused crash, not car or operators Peter 04-29-2016 - 13:45
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Margaret (SP fan) 04-29-2016 - 14:17
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Bart 04-29-2016 - 15:40
  Re: BART's new cars: Braking system -- comments, anyone? Margaret (SP fan) 04-29-2016 - 18:39
  Re: BART's new cars: Braking system -- comments, anyone? Edward 04-29-2016 - 19:10
  Re: BART's new cars: Braking system -- comments, anyone? mook 04-29-2016 - 21:51
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? An Observer 05-01-2016 - 09:15
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Another observer 05-01-2016 - 11:00
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Max Wyss 04-30-2016 - 09:44
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Dr Zarkoff 05-01-2016 - 11:32
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? mook 05-01-2016 - 13:45
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Dr Zarkoff 05-01-2016 - 15:09
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Max Wyss 05-01-2016 - 15:24
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Dr Zarkoff 05-01-2016 - 20:20
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Max Wyss 05-01-2016 - 15:17
  Re: BART's new cars: Why hydraulic brakes instead of air brakes? Dr Zarkoff 05-01-2016 - 20:22


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