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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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occurring in the area of magnetic braking, which has the potential to remove all
wearing components from the vehicle!
Electric parking brakes (EPB) systems are in use on some vehicles. Some
simply use a motor to drive, via a reduction gear a screw system that pulls on
the existing handbrake cables. A further development is to use a small motor
on two (or more) calipers that screws a plunger to press the pads on to the
disc. Both systems suffer in that an electrical failure can cause the brake to
stick on – or off. A manual override is used in many cases.
14.5.6 X-by-wire
14.5.6.1 Introduction
The term ‘X-by-wire’, is used ...
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