This is actually a pair of interrelated questions: electric motor controllers, and how to tell said controllers how to control the motors.
To recap, I have a chance to buy a 1964 1/2 Mustang in good shape for not much money. The goal is to get something not unlike the driving experience of a Volt, with an all-electric range of roughly a couple dozen miles and a "traditional" Prius-style hybrid range limited only by the gas tank. The thought is to replace most or all of the driveshaft with one or more electric motors. This would obviously require at least two different drive modes, and possibly more, dependent on various input sources. There seems general consensus that, in hybrid mode, using the combustion engine's vacuum pressure to set the electric motor's throttle is a good idea. Obviously, that's not an option in pure electric mode. In hybrid mode, I might want to change how eager the electric motor is based on battery charge, or have "eco" and "performance" modes, or various other options. That's obviously a somewhat more complex set of input parameters than is typical, and it seems like it might be more than most motor controllers are designed to accept. I do database and application and Web development for the day job, and I'm not afraid to sink my teeth into a new language. I'm also aware that embedded controller programming is a much different beast than what I'm used to. So...are there motor controllers that can reasonably handle this kind of complexity? If not, how 'bout some other device (in the spirit of an Arduino?) that can accept all the various control inputs and output a single signal that the motor controller thinks is a "regular" throttle request? Or is there some other approach that's typical that I'm not aware of, or...? Thanks again, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140723/cfc10750/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
