Cor van de Water wrote: > Not that I remember that this was a requirement for the GE EV1 > controller. > That would also not have worked for my controller, [...]
Cor, while your GE controller might well have had similar (or identical) switch input requirements as the GE EV-1 SCR controller in question, it is worth noting that your controller was *not* an EV-1. The EV-1 is an older, SCR, controller, while yours was a newer GE IGBT controller (I suspect one of the EVT-xxx models, where the 'T' appears to indicate "transistor", either MOSFET or IGBT). This page provides pictures and manuals for several models of GE controllers (EV-1, EV-10, EV-100, etc.): <http://www.fsip.biz/GEManualsDownload.html> The EV-1 logic does require several switches to open/close in proper sequence (and sometimes timing) to enable operation when wired as originally intended (for lift truck applications where a key, seat, brake, and direction switch were all normally present), but when installed in an on-road EV (especially with a transmission), it is common practice to wire the controller to defeat the built-in safeties associated with these inputs. Cheers, Roger. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
