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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| Not car related (yet - give them time) but frequently seen in ads for household gadgets these days is a "digital motor". WTF is a digital motor or is it (as I suspect) just something they've made up? |
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DM
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Location: North Cornwall
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| Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Bitumen Boy wrote: | | Not car related (yet - give them time) but frequently seen in ads for household gadgets these days is a "digital motor". WTF is a digital motor or is it (as I suspect) just something they've made up? |
Modern digital electronics used to switch the field coils, motor will probably have a laminated rotor rather than a wound armature with a commutator.
My Bosch battery tools have this set up, the digital electronics are used to give speed control as well.
I have just had to change the electronic board in my battery right angle drill last week. It was working fine untill it let a puff of smoke out 
Expensive smoke as the board was around £70 + the VAT. |
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Da Tow'd
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Location: Bella Coma British Columbia Canada
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 12:34 am Post subject: |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
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Location: Le Mans
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:59 am Post subject: |
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| I have spent half an hour fruitlessly searching the interweb for the name of the London estate agent (and that description of an occupation is a laugh anyway) who, post war, described property as it really was, with , for example, quotes like "light and airy" because there was a hole in the wall from bomb damage. His adverts were highly amusing and sold many a property. |
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Longstroke
Joined: 01 Oct 2019
Posts: 24
Location: Wiltshire
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| Like the advertisements in Motor Sport in the 40s/50s, both classified and trade, that could be quite poetic. Selling a car "because of arrival of stork" or "landlord now demanding rent arrears" - often a vehicle selling for £65 that would now have the value of a new Tesla. Also, having to reply to just an address in the days before everybody had a telephone. |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Hi Lowdrag:
The paper that carried those funny ads was Daltons Weekly, and I think the estate agent concerned was based somewhere near the Kingston By-pass.
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emmerson
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
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Location: South East Wales
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| Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:44 am Post subject: |
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| There's an ad on Classic FM for, I think, a new VW which rabbits on about the heated seats and internet capabillity of the car, but never mentions its performance, fuel consumption etc. It sounds as though the actual car is just a convenient means of carrying all the electronics around! |
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alastairq
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Location: East Yorkshire
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| Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| emmerson wrote: | | There's an ad on Classic FM for, I think, a new VW which rabbits on about the heated seats and internet capability of the car, but never mentions its performance, fuel consumption etc. It sounds as though the actual car is just a convenient means of carrying all the electronics around! |
Just as the mobile phone is now a computer, a camera, and a few other things, as well as being able to make & receive phone calls.
Just as the ability to do phone calls is pretty much an irrelevance for a phone these days, so is the performance, etc of today's cars....
Today's new car buyer[that's wrong, I know, folk don't buy cars any more!]....expects the manufacturer to take care of all that mundane rubbish stuff, such as driving.....
I also suspect that there is only one car manufacturer in the world now....all that seems to change is the badge.
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badhuis
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Location: Netherlands
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From an actual advertisement:
| Quote: | | The body appears to be solid, it would need a full restoration, but we are told that many parts are in the cab and the trunk. It looks like all the exterior parts are there, we were told it was running a few years ago. |
"appears to be", "we are told", "It looks like" - a trader who does not know what he has and does not bother. The beginning of the ad:
| Quote: | | XXXX Sales & Classics is proud to present this 1962 XXXX to our customers. |
Proud?!?!?!
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Bitumen Boy
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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| So if a "digital motor" is - contrary to my expectations - a real thing, can any one tell me what a "digital kettle" is..? |
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alanb
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| Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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A digital motor is a stepper motor as used in electronic printers etc. (Driven one step at a time)
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peter scott
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| Bitumen Boy wrote: | | can any one tell me what a "digital kettle" is..? |
Digital kettles operate on the binary principle. They are either on or off.
Peter 
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Bitumen Boy
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| peter scott wrote: | | Bitumen Boy wrote: | | can any one tell me what a "digital kettle" is..? |
Digital kettles operate on the binary principle. They are either on or off.
Peter |
Is that on the top of the stove or off the top of the stove?  |
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alanb
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| Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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It's when you use a digit to press the on switch
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
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| Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| lowdrag wrote: | | I have spent half an hour fruitlessly searching the interweb for the name of the London estate agent (and that description of an occupation is a laugh anyway) who, post war, described property as it really was, with , for example, quotes like "light and airy" because there was a hole in the wall from bomb damage. His adverts were highly amusing and sold many a property. |
I suspect you are thinking of Roy Brooks - the honest estate agent
https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/opinion/roy-brooks/ |
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