Brad, I read your message too quickly and thought......just get a DC motor from E-bay, a strong controller, and get on with the conversion....... Then I read your background. Then I carefully re-read your message. Scratch built EV, not a conversion. Start with building a switched reluctance electric motor and software control.
The first time I heard of a Variable Reluctance motor was the EMB Lectra VR24 electric motorcycle that Scott Cronk developed, manufactured and sold. Some of the web pages have been saved for fans of the motorcycle and technology. http://www.electricmotorbike.org/index.php?page=lectra There are several Scott Cronk's in technology and the arts but here is a short bio on the VR motor guy: http://www.energymatters.net/scott-cronk.html I would contact him directly as from reading about him and the Lectra project he seemed like a down to earth type of guy with a passion for his work and some smarts. I do not know him personally. Good luck! Alan >-----Original Message----- >From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Waite via EV >Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 2:01 PM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 40, Issue 21 >Hi Brad, >Specific SEVA members you should contact include Rich Rudman at Manzanita >Micro, and Dave Cloud at Cloud Electric (although I understand >Dave may have >recently moved, we both use to live in Woodinville). >Best Regards, >Jim Waite >Sent from Jim's Intergalactic Comm Device >> >> >> Hey, everyone, > > > >I am located in the Seattle, WA area (Woodinville, actually), and am > >interested in learning to build and control my own switched reluctance >> electric motor. The long-term goal of the project will be to build an >> EV from scratch (not a conversion), but since I do not have a hardware >> background yet, I'm looking for someone willing to at least help me >> take all my "unknown unknowns" to "known unknowns" ;). From there, if >> need be, I can tackle transforming those known unknowns into knowns on my >> own. >> >> Initially, I'd like to build a tabletop motor so that I can practice >> software control specifically of starting the motor, controlling regen >> during deceleration and acoustics, and controlling speed. >> >> If you know anyone able and willing to help, I would appreciate an >> introduction. >> Snip >> Thank you! >> >> All the best, >> -Brad Gibson >> _______________________________________________ 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)
