Posted by Marty on March 26, 01 at 15:03:05:
In Reply to: Re: Go Detroit posted by Nay on March 26, 01 at 13:46:00:
I am troubled by your definition of a locker. Please explain the following quote from the Tractech website:
"...They keep the wheels locked together (except when turning) so that together the left and right wheels always deliver maximum traction to the ground; neither wheel can spin out. They allow different wheel speeds in a turn by disconnecting the faster - moving wheel (usually the outside wheel which is ground - driven faster throughout the turn), driving the vehicle with the other (inside) wheel."
Under your definition, the locker would enable the axle to be a spool anytime you were on the gas. This is not so. You must first lose traction, by whatever small degree of slip, for the locker to engage. The locker is classified as a no-slip because it engages within one revolution or less.
>Nay wrote: I think you misread my post - I was not pitching the Detroit as a spool. The torque loaded state of an automatic locker is locked 50/50. It has to unlock to allow differentiation, which it does *only* in coast mode. It does not lock when it "detects" wheel slip; it unlocks when you let off the gas. I was responding to Andrew who stated that from the website he was looking at the Detroit would only engage when there was wheel slip. That is categorically incorrect. There is no such thing as wheel slip with a Detroit. The Detroit will allow differentiation in coast mode. You have to completely lose traction at both wheels to get wheel spin.