Recent content by nki

before I could afford batteries I ran my electric truck off a 5kW generator. It was the older style from late 90s with a "13 HP" honda clone, with the brushed generator head. I rectified it straight on to the DC bus with no batteries. It worked well enough to move the truck around the yard...

Hi Nobuo, peak power - I'm mostly trying to figure out the limits of the car parts here, not really shooting for any power range. During early testing, we used the generator half of the brick out of fear of blowing it up. Eventually, we hit its current limit. The brick has overcurrent...

greetings endless spheroids, lurker nki here to contribute some findings and progress. I've spent the last couple months working with a friend to develop a control board and some code to speak to the gen 2 Prius inverter. It is an interesting motor controller option as working inverters can be...