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Engine brake effect in different ERS modes?

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Hi guys,
I have a quick question.
Does each ERS mode has its own level of engine brake effect?
I feel like when I lifted with Low or None, the effect is quite noticeable and it feels like I'm pressing the brake pedal to a certain amount.
When I brake from Overtake or Hotlap, I don't feel engine brake that much.
Does anyone feel the same or someone from Codemasters can confirm this?

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Good question. If there is then the option of low or none would be better as harvest and regen. None would be more if it failed like happened to red bull at Monaco 

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All ERS modes have the same amount of harvest, just a different amount of deployment. I don't believe there's any difference to engine braking in the different modes.

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Most likely is nothing to do with engine braking or harvesting, running the higher ERS modes you are going faster and therefore having to apply the brake sooner or more heavily.

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Brake temps should sky rocket especially rear if they implemented ERS properly with "None" making rear brakes hot due to not using energy making the brake by wire system overheat, this should be next in line with an engineer prompt saying: "Your rear brake temperatures are getting too hot, move forward on the bias to cool them or attempt to go into another ERS mode". It might be a bit more complicated to implement, but the ERS modes should disable too with some degree of randomness too like you're on a lap and your ERS system goes hay-wire and won't let you go past Low deployment or even None and the race engineer tells you that the ERS system has failed and they're working on a solution in the garage then it comes back some time later or it is terminal and the engineer tells you to pull in the pits and retire, (wishful thinking, they'll mess it up).

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Hades1275 said:
Brake temps should sky rocket especially rear if they implemented ERS properly with "None" making rear brakes hot due to not using energy making the brake by wire system overheat, this should be next in line with an engineer prompt saying: "Your rear brake temperatures are getting too hot, move forward on the bias to cool them or attempt to go into another ERS mode". It might be a bit more complicated to implement, but the ERS modes should disable too with some degree of randomness too like you're on a lap and your ERS system goes hay-wire and won't let you go past Low deployment or even None and the race engineer tells you that the ERS system has failed and they're working on a solution in the garage then it comes back some time later or it is terminal and the engineer tells you to pull in the pits and retire, (wishful thinking, they'll mess it up).
 In theory it should be the exact opposite. ‘None’ only refers to deployment, not harvest, therefore the electric motor reaction should be the same, the only difference is the current is directed to straight to the battery, and not deployed as work to the rear axle.

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The actual brake pads have nothing to do with energy harvest. All energy generated from brake pads is wasted as heat. The energy is harvested by turning the electric motor in the opposite direction. This is where the lift and coast method comes in. I drive a hybrid car and I can charge the battery really quickly using this method. There is a YouTube channel by chain bear which goes into great detail about how all the tech in F1 works. Well worth a watch

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You definitely get more engine braking the lower the ers setting. You can actually effect the Oversteer/under steer depending on your setting and what the corner needs, and used during acceleration it acts as traction control. Pretty cool new feature, I love it. 

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