You know, today went rather well. Today dawned beautiful and rather cooler than the last few days. The new power controller for the motor turned up today. Disgusted with the thing WildernessEV sent us, I just went ahead and ordered one of these Chinese jobs for light electric vehicles.
The unit supposedly will handle 100A at 48 volts (they say 5000 watts). When it arrived I was rather surprised how light it was, but then realized that the old unit was one massive aluminum heat sink and this little guy has it's own fan.
Anyway, we hooked it up for a test, and behold, it worked fabulously. Wonderful control of the motor and no over heating, even using paltry 16 Ga. wires for the test.
Forward, stop, and back. It all functioned beautifully. We celebrated by taking a lovely afternoon kayak sortie and by making a great meal: grilled country ribs with fresh local tomatoes and corn.
All in all, today worked. Tomorrow, I'll go get some heavier wire for the installation and the iron for the motor mount.
So close I can taste it.
more shortly
M
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| What the hell? We gave it a shot. |
Anyway, we hooked it up for a test, and behold, it worked fabulously. Wonderful control of the motor and no over heating, even using paltry 16 Ga. wires for the test.
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| And, yes, I know the wires are too small. This was a test to see if it worked, and it did. |
All in all, today worked. Tomorrow, I'll go get some heavier wire for the installation and the iron for the motor mount.
So close I can taste it.
more shortly
M
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