Cummins/ Achates Diesel

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

wilber1 wrote:

noteven wrote:
When will Cummins stop calling motors “engines”?

They won't because they are right. Motors are electric and hydraulic. Engines burn fuel. Ask any aircraft mechanic or engineer.

No it's not. :R Motor is all inclusive. Motorcycle, motorhome, outboard motor, motor carrier.........

I can call a SBC a motor or an engine. Both are correct. The thing that runs your fridge is a motor, period. The thing that runs your blender is a motor, period.

Same thing with a supercharger. I can point to a motor with a turbocharger on it and say, that engine is supercharged and it would be correct. Or I can say that engine is turbocharged and that would also be correct. I would be incorrect to point to an engine with a 6-71 on it and say that engine is turbocharged.

See how it works now?

BTW I was an aircraft mechanic. :B

As was I as well as a flight engineer and pilot. I have never heard an electrical or hydraulic component called an engine, nor a fuel burning engine called a motor, not even an APU. I guess we were taught by different people.

I'm missing something with your turbo charger, super charger thing. Both are air compressors powered by the engine, one mechanically and the other by it's exhaust.