The company I work for made a new video that may be interesting to you guys. Might need a new section at ES for aircraft/watercraft hybrids ;-)
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Just as an FYI, I have nothing to do with Xnova motors and I can't say anything about their quality. The design from the outside looks exactly the same as the motors I designed. I stopped selling motors some time ago when I started working on camera gimbals and other flying things at...
Switching losses increase with increasing frequency. There is a balance between switching losses, current ripple losses, and motor switching noise. That balance point is usually between 12 and 100khz...but there are no set rules.
I find it's much easier to preheat the entire assembly on a hot plate, oven, or hot air station to just below a temperature that will start damaging components. Soldering anything massive is far easier that way.
Yeah..seems like these are really 300wh/kg cells which is still awesome...but they need to fix the huge degradation over the first 10cycles before they can honestly claim 400wh/kg. Still...if 400wh/kg is possible for 10 cycles with these cells..maybe their 2nd gen cells will do it for 100-1000?!
Yeah, you just have to let the video play in the background and jump in when things get interesting. If you are in a browser, just leave it running in a tab. Lots of industry gossip and other things that might be valuable in these videos.
Haha...he really lets us "kids with bicycles" have it at 33mins in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVh47P4h6PY&feature=g-u-u&context=G2ce3ff7FUAAAAAAAAAA