David Benton wrote:Discussion regarding the use of LED lights on the Viewliner Diner has indicated that power consumption in that area at least is much lower. However, I would think the HVAC load is much larger than the load for lights.AgentSkelly wrote:I remember once hearing from an retired Amtrak employee who told me about various "experiments" that were tried; one of them was an auxiliary CAT generator that would be placed what usually is the baggage room on the lower level of a Superliner that would of provided more power for HEP use. He said this was tried shortly after the Superliner was introduced but it had issues as the power management system used didn't exactly work right and sometimes caused the entire HEP voltage to vary up to 20%.modern inverter based gen sets should be able to synch in and provide exactly the same power as the hep supply . if , anything they would stabilise it .
But as i have said many times on here , i'm 100% sure its not really necessary , if Amtrak couldnt find ways to improve their current onboard power use by 20 -50 % , i'd eat my solar hat . That would be way more cost effective .
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