What are these things?

[Peacekeeper6]

Jet Assisted Take Off :thumbup:

JATO - A wonderful thing, but really NOT recommended for ANY motor vehicle No matter how long, straight, & level the road ahead may be! :yikes:


There is this old furphy of a story about a JATO pack, a Chevy/Ford/Nissan, and a loooong straight road somewhere in The Outback/Arizona/Texas/Siberia..... Good story, but things didn't end well for the occupant/s OR for the Chevy/Ford/Nissan! :roflblack:

If you've ever seen the famous Navy Precision Jet Demonstration Team, "The Blue Angels" perform, they have a Hercules C-130 cargo plane nicknamed "Fat Albert" that travels with them. They have installed a JATO system on the sides of the fuselage, and part of their flight demonstration has the big 4-engine turboprop rolling down the runway on takeoff, pull up at a steep angle and once the wheels clear the ground, fire the jet engines.

Never seen a such a big-ass cargo plane climb so steep and so fast. It's pretty impressive !!

 

[Baron14y]

OK ! I'll Bite, JATO,, Jet Automatic Take OFF?

Jet assisted take off

 

[Baron14y]

Pictures please

Even though I have no need for them Chubby Buttons are cool https://www.amazon.com/Chubby-Buttons-Stickable-Bluetooth-Resistant/dp/B08MLGZHRV/

Those buttons don't look like Chubby in custom enclosure. I think the device is something like an enduro map reader.

We need more and better pictures!!

Have you bought it yet?

Not yet, still looking. We live about 60 miles away with no good route to get there and the PO passed in Sept. Wife not very adept at computers so additional pictures are hard to get.

 

[Baron14y]

I want to see under the bodywork!

The two knobby dinguses look like homemade remotes for PWM modules. I expect somewhere under the bodywork you will see devices with heat sinks, maybe even a buck up-convertor to get more power into the heated grips.

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The PO made his own remotes because the knobs on the commercial versions aren't ergonomic in that location, especially with heavy gloves. So he made ones with big knobs pointing outwards. The knobs control potentiometers which control PWMs feeding the heated gear. The exposed Spyder heated grips are a bit feeble for heavy gloves and only High-Low control. To overcome the feebleness and provide variable control you would put a buck up-convertor (eg https://www.amazon.com/SUPERNIGHT-5A-Converter-Waterproof-Regulator/dp/B089M79KJC/) in front of the PWM to take advantage of the P=EI equation without overloading the grips 20AWG wires.

I want to see what's under that bodywork!

Very good analysis. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue as to what you are talking about.:shocked::dontknow::hun:

 

[Peacekeeper6]

Check out a JATO on this C-130.

Someone should offer a JATO system on a Spyder, LOL.

 

[SLICE]

The ever elusive gizmo and gizzwhacker, man you're one lucky guy

 

[OldAge]

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Someone should offer a JATO system on a Spyder, LOL.

Sure would be a h--- of a ride!! One time!:yes:

 

[Baron14y]

The ever elusive gizmo and gizzwhacker, man you're one lucky guy

You didn't even see the doohickey and the watchamacallit.:yes:

 

[Joe T.]

Mqm 107 jato

An aerial drome taking off from a ground launcher.

MQM-107:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3VKS-jjs-g

Joe T.

 

[UtahPete]

Not yet, still looking. We live about 60 miles away with no good route to get there and the PO passed in Sept. Wife not very adept at computers so additional pictures are hard to get.

60 miles is too far?

 

[remus]

That was the bike James Bond rode on his last mission. The knobs are for the direction finder and the switches are for the machine guns. rockets and oil slick:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

 

[Bfromla]

That was the bike James Bond rode on his last mission. The knobs are for the direction finder and the switches are for the machine guns. rockets and oil slick:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

:clap: Bond or Mad Maxopcorn:opcorn: don’t see scantly clad martini holder :dontknow::roflblack::roflblack::roflblack: