Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 21:17:05 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 13:17:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b48ff7a21875edccdc84d6fe64d1d249"; logging-data="2873391"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19bkYqgtDETDWu+wN3/D0JHgdWqOR4rYGg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kSfwZSY1vmGhSi7QZ3mGwtj0zLk= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 240704-2, 4/7/2024), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2511 On 4/07/2024 6:17 pm, alan_m wrote: > On 04/07/2024 04:46, Bill Sloman wrote: > >> Inductively coupled charging stations could bury the copper cables >> where they were harder to dig out, and it's not hard to embed a sense >> wire loop in the cable assembly that can generate an alarm as soon as >> the cable is cut. >> >> This just a reflection of poor engineering design, but neither >> Cursitor Doom nor ZeroHedge have that kind of insight. > > And how big and heavy does the coil on the car have to be for fast > charging? As far as I know it is only used for electric buses at moment, and doesn't seem to big or heavy enough to attract attention. Magnalev trains need to shift a lot more power through the inductive link, and it doesn't seem to make them impractical Since a car typically spends spends 95% of its time parked, charging doesn't necessarily have to be all that fast. Aluminium coils do tend to be bulkier than copper coils, but they are quite a bit lighter and cheaper. If you had any grasp of engineering design I wouldn't have needed to spell this out for you. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney -- This email has been checked for viruses by Norton antivirus software. www.norton.com