Audio taper would make a good "Sport Mode" pot, where 10% of motion equates to 50% of power! Or reverse that for the turtle mode when you go beyond your battery range and need to limp home...
How about a motorized fader for implementing a cruise control? On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:18 AM, jerry freedomev <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi Steve, Zeke and All, > > Not sure why everyone still uses > circular pots when slide/linear ones are much easier to deal with, just a > couple springs, stops and coupling it to the throttle cable, etc and save > the money, hassles of the PB-6. Always buy several controls/pots so if > they get dirty, etc just pop another in. Mount them upsidedown and not > only won't it collect outside dust, any carbon dust from the resistor pad > will drop out making a more reliable unit. > > If you are going to replace the pot > in the PB-6 buying several high quality ones from say Allen/Bradley from > Digi-Key, etc won't cost much more that the low quality stock one and > worth it. Make sure it has no/flat or a good taper for our use. Audio > tapers are too much in most cases. > > > Jerry Dycus > > > ________________________________ > From: Steve Clunn <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:45 AM > Subject: [EVDL] e-volks upgrade.... > > > From: Zeke Yewdall > > >Question on the PB-6 throttle..... is it good for that to be getting wet > all of the time... because it is,< > > not good at all , They are not the best pot boxes in the first place > and not sealed , > > -- > Steve Clunn > Merging the best of the past with > the best of the future. > www.Greenshedconversions.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) > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130728/9c336b75/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130728/8159ab3d/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
