First, Frontier Communications has started blocking the emails from lists.evdl.org as spam on 9-7-18, and I have been unable so far to get them to stop, so my primary email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> email can no longer be used. Upon recommendation of ECDL Administrator, I created new Gmail account [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> which I re-signed up on 10-17-18. Any responses to my posts sent during this interim time I did not receive. Anyhow, an update of our progress is below:
Much progress has been made, car and controller are largely operational, previous problems solved. One big issue with the ammeter gauge gross measurement errors was solved by running independent power, ground, and signal wires directly from the 500 amp shunt. Much of car infrastructure outside the fiberglass body had to be replaced as stuff goes bad sitting for decades. 86 year old uncle may be forced to retire at years end because the construction company he works for is being sold, so we are working expeditiously to full completion and a few issues are currently outstanding. My last three or so emails/technical support calls to Flight Systems Industrial Products have gone unanswered so I will post my questions here. I made a few short IPhone videos. The first is uncle testing the car horn: <http://ptandjb.com/eddiesEV1/horn0941.MOV> http://ptandjb.com/eddiesEV1/horn0941.MOV The second is a view of dashboard under construction and a view of the rear engine compartment. <http://ptandjb.com/eddiesEV1/intro0940.MOV> http://ptandjb.com/eddiesEV1/intro0940.MOV The third is a test of the controller and motor contactors. The car has tires but is up on blocks so the tires can spin freely. The plan was to press the accelerator to activate the Start switch and then before the motor had time to spin the tires up to unsafe speeds press the accelerator fully to make the Bypass switch for full function test. This was done in forward and reverse. <http://ptandjb.com/eddiesEV1/motor0943.MOV> http://ptandjb.com/eddiesEV1/motor0943.MOV The first question we have does the sound of the motor and differential sound OK, does anyone hear an issue? The second question is really big, in that it appears that the wiring to the motor is reversed in that putting the car in forward with positive input to L9, the wheels spin in reverse, and putting the car in reverse with positive input to L10, the wheels spin forward. Uncle and cousin are hoping against hope that this will change when we get the car off blocks and trailer for parking lot test runs, but I doubt it. Swapping the wiring on the motor would be messy, uncle wants to know if we can simply relabel the forward/reverse switch, does it matter, and is there an intrinsic difference in the controller between forward and reverse functions of the EV-1B controller? Paul Traceski -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20181110/8ca93ac5/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ 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)
