I've actually got one of the motors from the link you listed. It is technically true that no one sells a controller for that motor. However, the Azure Dynamics converted Transit Connect Electric vans used a very similar Siemens motor and the motor controller they used (DMOC645) along with the parameters they set for their motor will work perfectly fine with those old Ford motors from the Ranger EVs. I've done it. However, the old motors have non-sealed bearings that were supposed to be bathed in transaxle oil and have hollow shafts and odd splining on the outside. Unless you're up for a large project they're really no fun to use. The Ford motors can be purchased more cheaply than the Siemens motors from the AZD auction but do require work.
About 20 years on, these spare motors are STILL being offered, usually at > absurdly high prices - I've seen them as high as $5k, and a couple grand is > common - by surplus dealers. You can see one listing here : > > http://www.commoditiesrecoverycorp.com/electricmotors.htm > > For years we had regular posts from newbies on this list, asking where they > could buy an inverter to drive this motor. The answer was, and is, "You > can't." No such critter exists today, and probably none was ever available > to hobbyists. > > My guess is that Ford scrapped whatever spare inverters they had for these > trucks. Or maybe some Ford buyer, unfamiliar with what kind of spares the > small fleet of vehicles needed, just went overboard with ordering motors. > (Is anybody here who worked on this project and knows the real story on > where all these orphaned motors came from?) > > I vaguely recall hearing that someone was trying to either build an > inverter > for these or adapt an industrial controller to work with them, but I don't > know how that worked out. As far as I'm concerned, with no tested inverter > available for them, these are just very pricey doorstops. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131104/e5504af4/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)
