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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Part of Bombardier's wireless solution is short-term energy storage, similar to the above - that's what the MITRAC unit is on the roof.

The MITRAC unit supplies a steady stream of power to the LRV's electrical system. The MITRAC unit is supplied (by potentially intermittent and variable-level) energy via the contactless transfer PRIMOVE system under the vehicle, via the inductive principle.

The effective difference is the size/capacity of the energy storage device (battery, supercapacitor) - Brookville's vehicles used on QLINE have a larger battery, so can operate for more than half of the time off-power.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by Canard - 02-09-2019, 01:39 PM
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