High RMS's to go down a hill and low RPM's for fuel mileage
Recently after a conversation with a colleague I came to the conclusion that some drivers aren't using their transmission correctly. First let me say it's the AMT or Automated Manual Transmission that I'm referring to, whether it's a Fuller UltraShift Plus, Volvo I-Shift or a Detroit DT-12.
A lot of people call it an automatic but in reality it is not. In my world an automatic is a fluid drive transmission like the one in your car or an Allison automatic that are put in trucks. These transmissions have a pump that pumps fluid through the inside of the transmission to make you go. In an AMT, it is a manual transmission with all the gears and some sort of clutch. It is, simply put, a manual transmission that had the shifter removed and a x,y servo installed. That servo is operated by a computer that talks to the engines computer to get everything right for each shift. That is greatly simplified but that's the idea.
So what does M stand for?
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Recently after a conversation with a colleague I came to the conclusion that some drivers aren't using their transmission correctly. First let me say it's the AMT or Automated Manual Transmission that I'm referring to, whether it's a Fuller UltraShift Plus, Volvo I-Shift or a Detroit DT-12.
A lot of people call it an automatic but in reality it is not. In my world an automatic is a fluid drive transmission like the one in your car or an Allison automatic that are put in trucks. These transmissions have a pump that pumps fluid through the inside of the transmission to make you go. In an AMT, it is a manual transmission with all the gears and some sort of clutch. It is, simply put, a manual transmission that had the shifter removed and a x,y servo installed. That servo is operated by a computer that talks to the engines computer to get everything right for each shift. That is greatly simplified but that's the idea.
So what does M stand for?
READ MORE...