On Fri Apr 25 10:36:58 PDT 2014 [email protected] said: >On 25 Apr 2014 at 10:25, Lee Hart wrote: > >> For the pack as a whole, you can use your car's motor controller as an >> adjustable resistor. It can drive a resistive load just as well as an >> inductive load (the motor). > >Don't you need inductance in the load for a DC controller's current limit to >function? If so, you'd have to manually monitor the current carefully, no?
A big Honkin Resistor will limit the current quite well. Unless you decide to use 2 feet of 4/0 cable as your resistor. I doubt that you will want your "load" to be drawing 1000A. So you choose a resistor that will limit current to what you want. (likely well below the controllers current limit.) -- Bobcats and Cougars, oh my! http://john.casadelgato.com/Pets _______________________________________________ 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)
