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Old Oct 15, 2007 | 08:12 PM
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what was the answer to the fan i didnt check my answers.
Old Oct 15, 2007 | 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
what was the answer to the fan i didnt check my answers.
Same rotation? You would think it would be reverse, because they were facing each other..
I also flubbed on the worm gear one. I'm such a bonehead :gay:
Old Oct 15, 2007 | 09:39 PM
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82%, I would argue with some of the results though, like the fan one. The electrical ones killed me. The
Old Oct 15, 2007 | 11:20 PM
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66, i suck
Old Oct 15, 2007 | 11:56 PM
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74%. Apparently, I suck at pullies.
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 12:08 AM
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82% here, some questions were unclear. I didnt understand the terminology on question 7. The problem for me was what is direct drive and how could it be distinguished from a reverse drive?
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 01:08 AM
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80 percent. A little retarded on the first couple pulley questions apparently but finished them well. The planetary gear system caught me. My initial thought was that it would rotate, but as i thought about it too hard i decided it would lock.

That and I reversed the two battery questions...realized it when I got to the second of the two and just went with it.

Edit: Oh, and I'm an artist...not a engineer. :gay:
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 01:41 AM
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82 % and to think I do this **** for a living
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 07:51 AM
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Old Oct 16, 2007 | 11:14 AM
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98%, can't believe I missed the worm gear one. I guess I just got careless.
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 02:15 PM
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84%

For some of the gear ones I had to use my interlocked fingers to decide which way things go. I never did take physics.
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 03:00 PM
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Old Oct 16, 2007 | 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by BenR
108%
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Old Oct 16, 2007 | 03:18 PM
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74% ha, I cut gears for a living, so a lot of it was common sense for me. although direct drive/reverse caught me off for a little bit. technically with an idler it wouldn't be reverse.

I missed a few at the end as I was rushing cause I need to go get ready for work...
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 04:13 PM
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66%

I suck at that game
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Philip
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I'm cool with being second place to Philip. He does pwn this place.
Old Oct 16, 2007 | 09:48 PM
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yeah i scraped by with an 80% efficiency, the gears were easy (took my time and swirled my finger in the air), had no idea on the electrical (except for that gate/breaker one), and the fan would be pushing the other fan in the same direction, because the air is moving the same direction
Old Oct 17, 2007 | 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by BenR
I'm cool with being second place to Philip. He does pwn this place.
I actually got like a 50
Old Oct 17, 2007 | 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by LOLA - 92
90% -- Freakin fan
Me, too. Being the sort I am, I had to go get out the box fans and try it out.

Most (for me), were easy and obvious. Being in engineering, some of this stuff has to be, or I'd spend all my time figuring out what I should already know.
Old Oct 17, 2007 | 02:26 PM
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The fan question is wrong not matter what answer you put. IE they give no relative position if I remember correctly



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