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To: gg cox who wrote (132485)3/22/2017 8:38:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 217542
 
So now we have disposed of the red-herring diversionary buried cables issue. Protecting cables on floors is another matter altogether.

You are right that one wouldn't want fork lift drivers [another of my world-ranging talents] to be hooked up by forks being slid across the surface. Driving over a protected cable would be no problem. So some engineering to make them safe would be required.

Jack Hammer used to do a good job. These days there are fast and cheap concrete slicers that can cut grooves in concrete floors if necessary. Does the cable to your Leaf go over the floor by any chance when you plug it in? Is it airborne, ready to be tripped over? I hope you have engineered that cable in accordance with your local electricity regulations.

You are right that industrial places do not have lots of electricity flopping around the place without being properly installed. But they do have a LOT of cables and no problems.

Since the speed of vehicles driving over the Halo charging pads is very low preparatory to stopping, a speed bump over the cable would be no problem. Such a bump would be a tripping hazard and in supermarket and other car parking places, it would be better to cut the pavement and install the cable in a protected channel to each pad, which would best be recessed too.

Have you seen how charging is done around London?



You think the Halo installation I suggest is hazardous.
Can you detect any problem with these installations?





Looks as though there are not many buried cables. Perhaps there are electrical control systems that prevent electricity loss in case of cable cutting. It's not the 19th century now.

Mqurice
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