Talk:Intercooler
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[edit] Intercooler vs. Charge Cooler
An anonymous user has made edits to this page changing most instances of intercooler to charge cooler. It seems like pedantry (insisting on an obsolete usage) to me, since every car manufacturer I know of says "intercooler" in their specifications for cars with post-compressor cooling. But I'd invite other comments before reverting. If it is to be kept this way, the first section needs to be brought into line with the article name (with respect to boldfacing), and it may need to be merged with charge cooler, which seems to be a different definition. -- Coneslayer 18:22, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm with you on this one. It's well and good to insist that "intercooler" isn't correct usage, but it's much more common than "charge cooler." If we're going to change this, we better start saying "turbo-supercharger" instead of "turbo" too. I vote for the revert. Spinolio 18:31, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
It's reasonable to explain how 'charge cooler' is the technically correct term - but nobody I ever met actually called it that. Revert. SteveBaker 22:09, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've changed it back. For one thing, saying "The inter in the name refers to its location compared to the compressors" makes no sense when it's consisently called "charge cooler". User:Angr 10:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
- The definition of charge cooler is incorrect. Also the name 'intercooler' refers to a cooler located between multiple compressors not a single compressor as in a turbo or super charged vehicle. This site is meant as an accurate place of information not one persons decision (Steve) whether people actually use the term or not.
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- The title of the article is "Intercooler" - lets talk about intercoolers - and let's use the terminology that people UNIVERSALLY use in the car business (rightly or wrongly). I'm happy to support a paragraph that explains that the terminology is incorrectly used and that 'charge cooler' is technically correct - but to replace every occurrance of the title of the article with another term is confusing. Please sign your comments. SteveBaker 13:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
