Talk:Traction motor

message: I see someone is on their way to creating an article about asynchronous traction motors.
That's good, but I believe that some ac traction motors are synchronous, driven by a variable-
frequency drive. I *THINK* I've heard that this is the case with certain TGV generations.
Perhaps someone can chime-in with more details? (...or correct me?)
Atlant 20:45, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: vehicle electric motor would treat car electric motors. --HybridBoy 19:55, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that the traction motor article is large enough that it warrants another to address cars.  Besides, noone calls them "vehicle electric motor"s, we simply call them motors or traction motors.  "Electric vehicle traction motors" would me more appropriate, but again this article doesn't need to be split as it's not large enough and it describes perfectly the topic that it covers.  Thank you very much for discussing this with the community before simply creating that article! --D0li0 08:17, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a good place to put a redirect that points here, though. --Atlant 11:37, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  What Electric vehicle traction motor?  Although we already have the Electric vehicle (all vehicles) and Battery electric vehicle (passenger vehicles) articles.  So in that light perhaps it would be Battery electric vehicle traction motor?  But I think the WP:R policy is to not add unnecessary redirects with names that people don't commonly use, but I'm not sure. --D0li0 17:09, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vehicle electric motor 

message: Needed: a short one sentence definition for each of the terms: "power unit" and "truck". Rtdrury 21:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: . Even better than an in-line definition, we now have links to an entire article on each of these items. "truck" has been changed to "trucks (bogies)", and "power unit" has been changed to "power car" for consistency with the supplied reference. --68.0.124.33 (talk) 02:48, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  definitions 

message: Regarding railways:  There are various types of traction motors and various ways of controlling them.  It's a big topic.  Diesel locomotives also regulate the diesel engine and should result in tracking the optimum trace on the Brake specific fuel consumption map of the engine.  So the control of the traction motors must be coordinated with control of the diesel engine (all automatically of course).  What about the field weakening circuitry?  Also, there's the operation of the controllers (many non-US ones had 16 forward speeds).  Variable voltage is used on AC locomotives with transformers, and power electronics can vary the AC voltage inverted from a DC supply.  For rail locomotives I think at least 2 new articles are needed: one for diesels and another for electric.  But I don't have time to do this.David S. Lawyer 00:55, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should control circuitry be other articles? Existing article totally inadequate. 

message: This should be called LIQUID cooling, not "water cooling".  Water is just one possible substance. Ethylene glycol works. You can use alcohol, all kinds of other liquids, to serve a vast range of temperatures. If I wanted to write about one of these, am I supposed to do it on a page about "water cooling"?   I never even hear anyone say "water cooling". An engine is either "air-cooled" or "liquid cooled". I've heard of "liquid cooled computers", but never "water cooled" ones. What about oil cooling? That ought to be part of liquid cooling, right along with water cooling. They are both liquids, and we don't need a separate article for every possible substance. Liquid cooling works the same, within a limited range of techniques. Circulating and radiating, direct evaporation, circulation and evaporation, and as a heat sink. Those are all forms of "liquid" (including water) cooling..45Colt 02:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Sources. Andy Dingley (talk) 07:59, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  why "water" cooling? 

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