My only experience with this is pricing out AC systems vs. DC systems, and seeing the power ratings of both. My understanding is that the controllers which Telsa uses are able to produce the amount of power that they do, due to the more expensive semiconductors they’re working with. These are in-house units, vs. the Curtis controllers that we’re limited to.
All the AC vs. DC stuff in this thread, and the benefits that AC gives you vs. the cost are things you’re naturally going to have to consider. Unless you have an EE designing one-off controllers for you, off the shelf parts are rare. YMMV, and I’d love to hear stories to the contrary :) -lev > On Jan 13, 2016, at 2:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Lev, you are way past my area of knowledge. I never even found any AC that > met my power targets. I had no idea the controllers were significantly more > expensive. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Lev Lvovsky <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’m on this list so that I can learn what it’ll take to convert a classic >> mustang to an EV with decent if not good performance. >> >> To that end, my understanding is that AC motors which produce a reasonable >> amount of power are out of reach from the likes of you and I, on account of >> the expensive controllers required. How do you plan on overcoming that? >> I’d personally like to go the AC route (as I’m sure many other people >> would), but it seems untenable. >> >> thanks, >> -lev >> >>> On Jan 13, 2016, at 5:55 AM, via EV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I am designing and building my own sports car. My eventual goal is to >>> convert it to electric and sell them. The initial plan was to follow the >>> NEDRA path and use a DC motor to get high performance and publicity >>> (relatively) cheaply with the prototype. Then convert to AC motors to build >>> the real cars. >> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
