My question is, what use would a HPEVS motor be without the matching controller anyway?
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You're lucky they'll even sell it to you, warranty or no.
Right on target, David. It has become the norm to sell packages, and not parts. From the manufacturer's point of view, they would prefer to sell packages. They get more money. It lets them test it, tune it up, and they can include protection in the software against customer error. All these reduce warranty and customer support costs.
But in the DC traction motor, and industrial AC motor sectors, motors and controllers are usually mix-n-match. Customers buy the motor from one vendor, and the controller from another. These markets are big enough so the customer has "clout". The customers are in control; not the manufacturers. Customers can say, "No, I won't buy your stinkin' overpriced motor. You didn't build it; you bought it from someone else, doubled the price, and are trying to foist it off on me. I already have motor vendors I like."
in the early-mid 1990s, Ford evidently had a stock of Ford-branded, Siemens-made spare motors - probably more motors than Rangers. About 20 years on, these spare motors are STILL being offered, usually at absurdly high prices - I've seen them as high as $5k... 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.
Actually, you can probably get an industrial AC motor controller to run it. Industrial AC controllers will test the motor, and tune themselves to it.
Now, you may have a problem with the packaging of the industrial controller. It's built to sit indoors on a factory floor; not outdoors under the hood of a vehicle.
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