Matt Awesome wrote: > Wait, I had this backwards. I thought we *were* discussing the EV-1 > vehicle, not the forklift controller.
Nope; it is confusing at first glance, but the EV-1 *car* was a Chevy, while the EV-1 *controller* is a GE product ;^> > If we're talking about the forklift controller I can help! I stripped > mine down to the bare minimum required to make it run. > > Here is a link to an album, where you should be able to click on > individual high-res pictures: https://imgur.com/a/Y560sqp The GE EV-1 SCR controller is quite similar to yours, but the SCR controller in your pictures is *not* and EV-1 (and possibly not a GE product ;^). The drawings appear to identify it as a "STD. K70C M500 SCR", but Google isn't any help figuring out if this is an earlier GE model or not. The person seeking help has a bit different situation than you or I (I also have an EV with a GE EV-1 controller in it), since he is electrically reversing the motor and so cannot simply eliminate the directional switch(es) and contactors like we did. Cheers, Roger. > > Basically you can ignore almost everything and just gut it right down > to its essentials to get the motor to run. > > After cutting out all excess stuff out, you're left with some pretty > minimal connections to make: > - The motor connects to positive. > - One motor field connects to one motor armature, doens't matter which > for testing, it just sets direction. > - The motor connects to the speed controller. > - The speed controller connects to negative. > - The foot pedal potentiometer connects to the controller (pin 29?) > - The foot pedal "power on" switch connects to a contactor, or a dummy > load to fool it to thinking there's a contactor there. (pin 41, > through dummy load to positive?) > > I think that's all, there might be a wire or two I'm missing but, there > you go. > > Does that help? I don't have it in front of me and I'm quite rusty > since it was a year ago that I figured this out, got it working, and > then abandoned it for another controller... but I'm pretty sure I > could walk you through it if need be. > _______________________________________________ > 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
