It's probably a simple and too often occurrence, but on my way to work yesterday morning I heard a loud POP! I was accelerating, but not up a big hill or anything ... I might have been pulling 100 amps is all (in my 120v / 2000 lb Lectric Leopard) and it was maybe mile 2 in my commute on a cold morning, so it wasn't overheating. I was able to keep going (which I found miraculous), turned around, went home and humbly scraped off the frost from my gas car and went to work.
Today I was able to look more closely and saw the end cap to my Curtis 1221C-7401 laying next to some additional spray - so clearly it had exploded. (Sorry if this has been described before, but truly I did try and search the archives, but didn't find much) ... Out of curiosity: 1.- What most likely exploded? 2.- How is it that after such an event the controller kept going? 3.- Can I keep driving it, or is it now even more likely it will fail totally and leave me stranded? 4.- Is there a possible cause other than just old age that I should be looking into to correct? 5.- Is it repairable ... or should I use this event as a not-so-subtle hint to upgrade the controller? Thanks, Dan ----- Dan Gallagher http://www.evalbum.com/3854 -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Curtis-Controller-Popped-tp4660481.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
