Animated demo of HSD

Just a heads-up - the link referenced above seems to be crashing my Firefox browser. Works fine through IE though.

 

The link didn't work in Firefox for me (just sat there), but also didn't crash the browser. worked fine in IE.

I liked it, overall, but would have loved to have an illustration on the side showing what the planetary gear was doing at the same time.

 

That thing crashes the @#$# out of fire fox

 

I tried with Minefield 3.0a1nightly (last nights build of Firefox beta), page works, but plug-in won't auto install.

I downloaded the plug-in installer, installed fine into minefield's plug-in folder. Only problem is I can't see the left 1/3 of the plug-in, which is where all the good stuff happens.

 

Nice demo! Thanks for sharing it Bill.

 

Gee, I never realized that the 1NZ was a V-4 engine. . . Sorry, couldn't resist. Otherwise a nice animation. I've viewed that one directly from Toyota.com. I'm still looking for one that combines the Toyota view of the car in motion with the nice details members here have created showing how the PSD actually operates. For some reason (maybe why I'm not an engineer...), I still have trouble visualizing the transition from PSD to the drive wheels.

 

That's the long-standing problem with Toyota, they always try to
shove this frequently dysfunctional scripting garbage down your
throat any time you get anywhere near their web site. If enough
people would unlame and send mail to [email protected] pointing
out "sorry, I don't enable any of that due to very valid security
concerns", maybe they might begin to get the idea. But that first
requires that people actually care.
.
_H*

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ekpolk @ Oct 10 2006, 06:56 PM) [snapback]330886[/snapback]</div>

What specifically is your request? I'd certainly try to provide it (update to my animations)... if you can describe what you'd like to see.

Since MG2 (the big motor, depicted as the outer ring) is directly linked to the wheels, they move whenever it moves. So including that would not actually add anything.

 

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John:

Thanks for the help. I'm with you on this -- conceptually anyway. Where the gears clash in my head (bad pun -- sorry...) is how the rotation of the outer ring becomes the rotation of the drive shafts and wheels. Somehow, when I type the question, it sounds easy, but I still don't get that. Keep in mind that I do very well with tests dealing with abstract concepts, but perform miserably on anything related to spatial relationships, like those classic nightmarish unfolded box questions. . .