Re: Near miss at Victoria (London)

[jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com>]

Regnot sure what your saying,  but  Regen braking uses power in cases i know of,
specially in AC ,  but even DC motors can use reverse current instead .    on the
EMUs  the emergency break almost  shorts the DC motors apparently (according to
afriend who works at QR)  and the resitor glows red hot hehe

Chris Downs wrote:

> What stops the train from producing a current from regen. braking?  Regen. is
> inoperable (no power available to initiate regen. or it's deliberately made
> inoperable or unreceptive overhead prevents it use or ?) if the overhead is
> dead?
>
> Chris
>
> jjjim <jjjim@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > Yeah exactly . the trains still going to roll , and in the case of trains
> > that use the traction motors for Braking,  there would be now only air
> > brakes to tread on :/
> >