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Improving Fuel Economy

If you own a powerful car and you drive enthusiastically, you're probably not going to be blessed with marvellous fuel economy. However, there are various steps you can make to lower the amount of gas you use on any journey without driving like a miser. This article only majors on the most effective methods of reducing fuel consumption, if you need more tips please do a search on Google – there is a plethora of information out there…

Keep your car well maintained

Following the correct service intervals will keep your car running efficiently. New air filters will allow the free flow of air necessary for efficient fuel combustion, clean fuel filters provide a steady stream of petrol to the cylinders, and shiny new spark plugs will provide the spark needed to set the whole thing off. A thing of beauty! They key here is the efficient burn of the fuel air mix, which will allow more power to be extracted from a set volume of fuel. A new air filter alone could increase fuel consumption up to 10%.

Tyres

Underinflated tyres need more energy to roll. Keeping the pressures at the correct level can increase economy by up to 3.5%. Specialist fuel saving tyres are also available, although these may not perform so well on the track! Properly inflated tyres are also key to providing optimum levels of grip, so it's worth checking periodically.

Gears

Using higher gears won't give you lightning acceleration but will save fuel. Keeping your revs low (but not so low that your engine starts to struggle) is a good habit to get into when cruising. If you have a "Sport Mode" on your auto transmission, turn this off, as this will hang onto low gears for longer and may even prevent changing to the highest cog.

Accelerate hard to save fuel?!

A British automotive engineering consultancy claims to have unearthed proof that putting your foot down hard on the accelerator can actually be more fuel efficient than driving more conservatively.

“It sounds totally counter-intuitive — and it is,” admits Cousins. The key to saving fuel, he says, is to accelerate hard until the engine reaches 2000 rpm, move up a gear, then put your foot down until you reach 2000rpm again. It’s all to do with internal friction. “Put simply, with your right foot down on the accelerator, the engine is working at its most efficient,” says Cousins. Above 2000rpm the benefits diminish and you start using more fuel, not less.

Here’s the really interesting thing: in tests carried out in a Citroën C1, one of the most fuel-efficient cars, Cousins’s driving technique proved 8.5% more efficient than the “eco-safe driving” style promoted by the Department for Transport (http://www.dsa.gov.uk — search for eco-safe). The government’s official driving method — taught to all UK learner drivers and now included in the driving test — encourages drivers to save fuel by using the accelerator pedal only lightly.

Source: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/

Dr Steve Cousins should know what he's talking about – he was project leader for the Axon Automotive Caterham 2R which achieved 131 miles per gallon in UK Shell Eco-marathon, and is one of the world's top researchers into fuel economy.

Accelerate gently to save fuel

Although there may be evidence that accelerating hard to 2000rpm could save you fuel, accelerating to the red line in every gear will certainly not. In general, try to keep a constant speed where possible by judging potential reasons to slow down in the road ahead and react to them, avoiding rapid changes in momentum. If you're slowing down and accelerating the whole time, fuel bills will go through the roof.

Speed

The faster you go, the harder it is to propel your vehicle through the air. This means that a small decrease in cruising speed could provide fuel economy benefits. The UK's Department of Environment claims that every 5 mph you drive over 65 mph will provide a 7% decrease in fuel economy.

Incidentally if you believe these figures, at 130 mph on the autobahns of Germany, you'll be using 91% more fuel than at 65mph. At 150, you'll actually be getting negative miles per gallon, and you'll arrive at your destination younger than when you started!

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Guitar Digital Zoom vs Analog Effect Pedals?

ok, this is an interesting conflict.
Almost all Professional Guitarists like Joe, Paul, John, Johnson and many more use Analog Effect Pedals. Now, I have realized that with advancement in modern technology Digital Sound Effects are much beneficial than those Analog Pedals. Here are the reasons:-
Advantages of Digital Zoom over pedals:
1) Small in size, easy to carry
2) Varieties of effects.
3) Low power consumption and require only 2 Guitar Jacks(normally).
4) Easily manageable during concerts. (Plug your jack and Battery, finished)
5) Can be attached to external pedals too.
6) Once setting is saved, its all done. The buttons in Analog pedals are likely to rotate when you carry them.
7) Can be connected to computer directly for recording.

Writing all these, I want to know why do our legends still use Analog effects. Let's Explore!!!

I assume you're talking about one of the Zoom multi-effects specifically. I don't know why you would choose one of them. Their products sound terrible in my opinion. There are lots of better options than a Zoom.

I don't think you understand what "digital" and "analog" actually means. "Analog" pedals manipulate the electrical signal generated by your guitar directly. It's like taking a polaroid photo and then drawing a mustache on somebody. "Digital" pedals convert that analog electrical signal into a digital one (a bunch of 1's and 0's) and manipulate that. Then they convert it back to an electrical signal and send it on its way. This is like taking a polaroid, scanning it into the computer, drawing a mustache on somebody with photoshop, then printing the picture out again.

As you can imagine, converting the signal to a digital one and back results in some signal degradation, which doesn't happen with analog pedals. Higher end pedals have better converters in them, but you still lose little bits here and there.

Now I don't think that's what you were asking, but I felt it necessary to educate you on such a tremendous misunderstanding.

It seems that your real question is why do most professional guitarists prefer to use multiple effects pedals rather than a single multi-effects unit. Those multi-effects units are great, and lots of professionals use them around home and stuff, but the fact is dedicated effects units usually sound better.

When using dedicated pedals, you are free to chain them in whatever order you like (yes, the order makes a BIG difference).

It isn't a big deal to remember what settings you like or need.

Having total control over EVERYTHING at once is something very few multi-effects pedals allow you to do. Nobody likes scrolling through a bunch of menus to find the "delay feedback" setting. That's why I prefer the Boss ME series. Every control has a dedicated knob, so it's similar to actually having a bunch of different pedals on the floor (in that way). If I want to change something, I bend down and change it in less than a second. I couldn't do that if I had to keep pressing a "page" button over and over.

So between having greater control over everything and it just sounding better, dedicated effects win the two most important categories.

Regarding connecting into the computer for recording: professional musicians aren't connecting into the line in jack on a laptop or something. They're in studios with systems that cost several thousand dollars. They are either recording a dry guitar signal or mic'ing an amplifier, but they're not plugging anything straight into the computer.

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