Posted on 08/18/2012 7:23:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 08/18/2012 7:38:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
DETROIT (AP)
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So if you die in a car fire, it’s Karma, eh?
Where’s the next Ralph Nader when ya need him? This is right up his alley.
They need another fan to cool the cooling fan.
$193,000,000.00. Let that roll around in your head for a few minutes. And that’s just the first installment.
Karma’s a female dog, after all.
Bad Karma.
They need a larger fan to fan the flames.
I don’t know if you can fix the suckers (fans) who bought these cars!
2,400 sold? That company is on fire!
I thought their karma ran over their dogma...
Watch out because they’ll try to give you a Chevy Volt for a loaner.
Electric fans have been around for a hundred years or so. You would think they might have figured out how to make them by now.
We have two small oscillating house fans. One was made by Panasonic. The other is some Wing Wang nameless thing. They both suck. You turn them on and the blade just barely rotates. Over several minutes they slowly build up to full speed. How hard can it be to make these things work right.
Then we have an old Patton fan from about 30 years ago. Dang thing just about blows the dog out the back door. Still running strong. Too bad they don’t make these any more.
I just found one on ebay and the bid is up to $74 bucks! For a used fan that has to be pretty old.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Patton-18-3-Speed-High-Velocity-Fan-Model-U2-1887-/130746590353#vi-content
Yes, I know these are AC and the car fans are DC, but still.
“The Karma is a $100,000 car that can go 30 to 40 miles on battery power.”
Surprised to see a paragraph like that slip through The Chronic’s editors.
Goofy friend of mine put big bucks down on one of these. He doesn’t have it yet. Dumb b@$t@ rd.
We have a fan like that. It takes around five minutes for it to come up to speed. Of course you know why right?
It’s devised that way so there isn’t a surge of electricity needed to get it going.
So the fan sits there warming up, while you sit there boiling over.
I think of it the same way I think about the water choke device in shower heads. They reduce the flow of water. So instead of rinsing off in ten seconds, it takes you a minute to get the soap film off you. That causes you to use three or four times more water than you would have in the first place.
Simply brilliant.
I don't think that's the problem here, though. When they were new, they sped up right away. I think these just have lousy bearings.
Okay, I see. We purchased a fan a few years back, that starts out very slowly, and builds to speed. It worked that way from the start, and things being what they are, I expected that to play into your case too.
I appreciate the mention that wasn’t the case with yours.
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