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Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, 5th Edition
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Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, 5th Edition

by Tom Denton
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
700 pages
28h 19m
English
Routledge
Content preview from Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, 5th Edition
Chassis electrical
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14.4 Automatic transmission
14.4.1 Introduction
The main aim of electronically controlled automatic transmission (ECAT) is to
improve conventional automatic transmission in the following ways.
• Gear changes should be smoother and quieter.
• Improved performance.
• Reduced fuel consumption.
• Reduction of characteristic changes over system life.
• Increased reliability.
The actual operation of an automatic gearbox is beyond the scope of this book.
However, the important points to remember are that gear changes and lock-up
of the torque converter are controlled by hydraulic pressure. In an ECAT
system, electrically ...
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