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		hwillis on Sept 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As Electric Motors Impove, More Things Are Being E... My favorite bit of electric locomotive technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc Closely followed by dynamic braking, or as it is more accurately and much more awesomely called in the UK, rheostatic braking.

toomuchtodo on Sept 17, 2017 [–]

Someone posted one of these on /r/electricians the other day running an elevator in New Zealand; very cool piece of tech.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricians/comments/6vpg8n/the_me...

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