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Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by Stephen King, in his only directorial effort. [5] The film stars Emilio Estevez , Pat Hingle , Laura Harrington , and Yeardley Smith .
In 1986, it was adapted for cinema with the King-directed Maximum Overdrive, which King himself described as "a critical and financial flop". [ 2 ] In 1997, it was adapted again as the TV movie Trucks , starring Timothy Busfield , Brenda Bakke , and Brendan Fletcher , which Video Business called "Mindless, but well-executed and rarely boring ...
Maximum Overdrive: Stephen King: Aliens remotely control machines (trucks, cars and even vending machines) to kill the human population before invading. Based on the Stephen King short story "Trucks". Novel 1986 Sun Songs of Distant Earth: Arthur C. Clarke: In which the last survivors of Earth arrive at a distant colony unexpectedly Comic 1986 ...
For instance, the overdrive system applied to a Triumph TR5 operates on 2nd, 3rd and top gear. When engaged, the overdrive would drop the revs from 3000 by 666 RPM, or from 3500 the drop would be 777 RPM to 2723 net. The advantages this reduced rpm had on fuel consumption was most often quite near 22% decrease during highway driving.
The Breakwater synthesizer riff is absent from the "Maximum Overdrive" remix of "Robot Rock", which consists of the song's other elements for a duration of nearly six minutes. A music video for this remix has been shot and included on the Daft Punk Musique Vol. 1 1993–2005 compilation CD and DVD.
An accident occurred on 31 July 1985, during shooting in a suburb of Wilmington, North Carolina, for Maximum Overdrive. A radio controlled lawnmower used in a scene went out of control and struck a block of wood used as a camera support, shooting out wood splinters which injured Nannuzzi, the director of photography on the production.
Overdrive voltage, usually abbreviated as V OV, is typically referred to in the context of MOSFET transistors.The overdrive voltage is defined as the voltage between transistor gate and source (V GS) in excess of the threshold voltage (V TH) where V TH is defined as the minimum voltage required between gate and source to turn the transistor on (allow it to conduct electricity).
"Maximum Overdrive" is a song by Belgian-Dutch Eurodance band 2 Unlimited, released in November 1993 by Byte, ZYX and PWL as the fourth single from their second album, No Limits! (1993). The song was written by band members Ray Slijngaard and Anita Dels with Phil Wilde and Filip Martens, while Wilde produced it with Jean-Paul De Coster.