Rocker switch
As rocker armed pedal one are motorcycle and electronic gearshift paddles ( English paddle shifters ) on the steering wheel of a motor vehicle referred.
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On some motorcycles, paddles for shifting the gears are mounted, which consist of a two-lever system or a two-armed foot shift lever. The entire foot rests on the rocker switch and the driver can shift the gears up or down by rocking the foot forwards or backwards. Shift paddles were used on historic motorcycles in order to be able to more easily transfer the high forces required for changing gears in contemporary transmissions . Modern motorcycle transmissions no longer require such a high expenditure of force, so that foot switching using a one-armed gear lever has become the norm in most models. In the case of choppers or cruisers , however, because of the backward-sloping seating position, even modern models often have rocker switches. As a higher quality variant of the rocker switch, some models are designed as a kind of footboard.
Other motor vehicles
Shift paddles are usually mounted on the left and right of the steering wheel and complement the shifting option using a manual lever in manual automatic transmissions , automated manual transmissions and dual clutch transmissions . By pulling on one rocker switch, you can shift down a gear and pulling the other up a gear. Downshifting with the left rocker and upshifting with the right rocker have predominantly prevailed across all manufacturers. Older variants, e.g. B. the automated manual transmission SMG in the BMW E46 models 325Ci and 330Ci, offer the possibility of shifting up and down on each rocker switch by pushing or pulling it.
history
At the end of the 1980s, electronics found its way into the Formula 1 World Championship . As one of the first functions, shift paddles were installed on the steering wheels for faster gear changes. At the Brazilian Grand Prix in 1989 switched Gerhard Berger and Nigel Mansell in the Ferrari 640 first sequential shift paddles.
In 1995 the paddle shifters were introduced on the Porsche 993 with Tiptronic S gearbox , other sports car manufacturers quickly followed suit. Since 2003 paddle shifters found in almost all vehicle classes of high volume vehicles increasingly used, both in dual clutch transmissions and manually shiftable automatic transmissions.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shift paddles on the steering wheel. (No longer available online.) Ten.de, archived from the original on February 25, 2014 ; Retrieved February 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Michael Trzesniowski: Racing car technology: basics, construction, components, systems. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8348-1779-2 .
- ↑ The Formula 1 steering wheel under the microscope: taming the beast. motorsport-magazin.com, February 19, 2011, accessed on February 5, 2014 .