Sentences with word «rheostat»

There's this whole other stuff, the other 95 percent of the genome, that acts like rheostats — you slide this thing up and down, you get more or less of this protein.
An included rheostat light lets you adjust the brightness for a range of visibility conditions combined with the glo indicator pins to maintain accuracy.
If so, the gas pedal rheostat is probably telling the computer you are pressing it, causing the throttle to go up and in some cases not respond at all.
Next up is Dynamic Body Control, or the steel coils with rheostat adaptive shocks — now with two valves in each shock to separately control compression and rebound rates.
No more instrument light rheostat controls hidden inside the glove box on the other side of the car, as found in true - Brit R - R / Bentleys of old.
In the end, they chose a level midway between, hoping for the perfect mix of benevolence and competitive edge... Syd and Kayla, however, did not want to set their child's happiness rheostat too high.
The microRNA miR - 181 is a critical cellular metabolic rheostat essential for NKT cell ontogenesis and lymphocyte development and homeostasis.
Hot Tools has a Nano Ceramic barrel, innovative rheostat which enables adjusting temperature up to 220 °C.
The throttle was not merely a speed rheostat; it became a baton for conducting the music of balance.
New chassis tech rests primarily in what Honda calls «amplitude reactive double - valve shock absorbers» — an effort to mechanically replicate rheostat - controlled, variable - rate suspension at an entry - level price point.
I always keep my heat sources on rheostats so that the cage temperatures can be finely tuned.
Rheostats require manual adjustment and keep the cage keeper more in tune with the animal.
It's a system involving 3 factors working in the classic rheostat, or transistor design, so I imagine its a bit hard for the linearly inclined typical climatologist to digest).
Anyway as I was saying in my answer, I think it could be an issue with your gas pedal rheostat, if your car uses a DBW system:
The equipment of this room includes a Sony «Bravia» 37 inches brand new color TV with satellite aerial (dish, to watch English speaking and international channels), a Sony stereo Hi - Fi (with CD player, tuner, tape deck), a wall mounted ventilator with rheostat (like in all the rooms), a halogen lamp.
Trust is an on / off switch, not a rheostat.
There are a few quirks to get used to — the brake pedal isn't a pedal, it's a touch - sensitive, pyramid - shaped rubber button where pressure, not pedal travel, equals stopping power; the feedback - free, hydraulic rack - and - pinion steering is as disconnected and consistent as a rheostat, and it feels like that of no other car on the planet — but the sharp - yet - pillowy ride and handling combination is almost supernatural.
Once you conceptualize the throttle not so much as a demand for horsepower, but as a wheelspin - rheostat, the Hellcat just becomes an extension of your subconscious.
The caveat I'll give you though, is that most vehicles today are drive by wire, meaning, there is a rheostat attached to the gas pedal which interprets your intent as to how fast the engine should be going.
It seems that your tachometer is loosing voltage in the rheostat (the part that makes the meter work).
The Scirocco R's wheel betrayed a rheostat - whirring common in older systems.
The electric power steering system felt well - programmed, lacking the rheostat character of some competitors» steering systems.
Instead of a traditional hydraulic system, which relies on fluid to regulate brake pressure, the brake - by - wire system uses a rheostat (a small device that measures movement) to send electronic signals to a processor that triggers the electrohydraulic brakes — it is all computerized.
As it's been for at least the last three or four generations, as technology has allowed Porsche to manage boost more like a rheostat than an on / off toggle, the Turbo capital T remains among the ultimate bi-modal GTs on earth, regardless of price.
I noticed that when I switched off the lights that my hand would brush against the rheostat and turn off the dash lights.
The headlight switch, also rotary type, is located a bit too close to the rheostat, the device that controls the brightness of the dash lights.
The first prototype system was crude, and its original clutch pack controller was a rheostat.
The air conditioner's fan is controlled by a rheostat.
Where Toyota's older generation electric power - steering systems made a kind of whirring sound and felt like a rheostat, this Camry's steering offered a good weight and no odd motor sounds.
You may find that the continuous stimulation button is too intense for your dog, even just a slight movement from the «off» position of the rheostat.
All herp caging should have heat sources modulated with either a rheostat (dimmer switch) or thermostat.
Thermostats or rheostats can be used in conjunction with these devices to control heat output.
There is now a palpable neutral position in the accelerator / rheostat.
Installed and hooked - up electronic switchgear components such as bus ties, power transfer controls, transfer switches, circuit breakers and rheostats.
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