Junkyard trip

[RobC]

We found a few items at the junkyard and and thought we would give all of you a  chance to guess what or where they came from.  



I hope they will  be wind generators in a year or two. RobC

[RobC]

I should probably have told you that both sets of stators and rotors came out of same aluminum case.

[drdongle]

Any idea what it came out of? any name plate data?

[vawtman]

Well i will post a guess.

 A smallish gridtied turbine.The smaller unit would maybe used for controls and the other to feed the grid.

[RobC]

These parts came out of a Toyota Prius hybrid. The small pink stator came out of the front of the main power unit next to the motor and the large stator came out of the other end of the unit.

[vawtman]

Darn that was the first thought i had.

[BT Humble]

These parts came out of a Toyota Prius hybrid. The small pink stator came out of the front of the main power unit next to the motor and the large stator came out of the other end of the unit.

I had no idea that the Prius came with a rock hammer as standard equipment! ;-)

BTH

[JW]

I bet its for power-steering, or A/C or some other auxiliary system.

Yes,yes,  nice rock hammer by the way, bet that was helpful for prying casings apart.

I fixed my spellchecker.

JW

[harrie]

I have a prius, thanks for giving me a look at whats under the hood, you sure cant see much by trying to look into the engine compartment. interesting!!

[RobC]

Well BT you never know on these new high tech auto's when you might have to lift the hood and tap on something. And if your really angry use the pointy end of the hammer. RobC

[Kevin L]

Regen braking system.  Slows the car down while charging the battery bank.