Malcolm
10 kW
One of the benefits of a northern winter is that there's no real distraction from projects. Still a long way to go, but here are some photos of progress so far.
I picked up a couple of series wound motors cheap on ebay, so had to find something to do with them. I shortened them to fit across the mini subframe, so they no longer have the internal fans. They'll be blower cooled instead. I also advanced them 8 degrees as they'll be run at around 120V each, in series, so 240V total. I may try running them in parallel, just to see what difference this makes in steering feel.
The new Soliton Junior controller seems just about ideal at 300+ volts and 600A peak. I'll leave the decision on batteries until the very last, as I made the mistake of buying them first on my last project, and the technology is improving fast.
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I picked up a couple of series wound motors cheap on ebay, so had to find something to do with them. I shortened them to fit across the mini subframe, so they no longer have the internal fans. They'll be blower cooled instead. I also advanced them 8 degrees as they'll be run at around 120V each, in series, so 240V total. I may try running them in parallel, just to see what difference this makes in steering feel.
The new Soliton Junior controller seems just about ideal at 300+ volts and 600A peak. I'll leave the decision on batteries until the very last, as I made the mistake of buying them first on my last project, and the technology is improving fast.
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