Allan Streib wrote:
Build your own?
http://www.zeva.com.au/tech/controller_design/
Looks like he's got $160 in a bank of ten MOSFETS alone.
http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Keyword=120N20
One surprising thing I learned about MOSFET resistance ratings:
Jim Cathey wrote:
Yeah. Let's say you can get by with about a 100HP electric
motor. Let's say it's about 100V battery pack. What's that
rheostat got to handle, 75,000 W or so? 750A at 100V, yeah,
I think Radio Shack has those...
I haven't paid attention to recent advances, but I had some
I'm thinking a wood gas car would be the way to go. It would give the
greenies brain contortion fits as it is a renewable-energy zero
emissions vehicle (just like an electric!), belching smoke all over.
--R
On 12/4/2010 9:45 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Jim Cathey wrote:
Yeah. Let's say you
Build your own?
http://www.zeva.com.au/tech/controller_design/
Just one of those times where I wish I knew more about electronics.
Allan
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:45 -0500, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Jim Cathey wrote:
Yeah. Let's say you can get by with about a 100HP electric
of blowing the dammed thing up...
-Curt
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:52:01 -0500
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: homebrew electric cars
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I'd love to do wood fired steam power but just don't see steam engines
for sale and I do work about the fairly likely chance of blowing the
dammed thing up...
You want a flash boiler, not the tank kind. Sorta like
the tankless hot water heaters, except they make steam.
-- Jim
Agreed, harder to design for a wood burner though right?
If I'm gonna gassify I'm going to burn it in an IC engine.
-Curt
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 07:26:40 -0800
From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: homebrew electric cars
I just sold a Saab manual transmission I had lying around to a guy who
is going to build an electric car out of a rolling Saab 99 shell he
has. He plans to install the transmission just as in a gas car, but
with an electric motor turning the transmission input shaft directly
without a clutch; he
Wait untill he finds out how much the controls will cost. I had a
coworker who did this to an old VW about 10 years ago. With huge golf
cart batteries he could go about 10 miles to work. No heat in winter
Another retired Engineer buddy is working on his 3rd Prious
On 12/3/2010 10:51 AM,
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:23:06 -0500 Peter T. Arnold pm7...@comcast.net
wrote:
Wait untill he finds out how much the controls will cost. I had a
coworker who did this to an old VW about 10 years ago. With huge golf
cart batteries he could go about 10 miles to work. No heat in
winter
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Peter T. Arnold pm7...@comcast.net wrote:
Wait untill he finds out how much the controls will cost.
I'm not following you... isn't something to modulate the voltage
pretty much the only control you need? Just a potentiometer connected
to the throttle cable? And
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 08:39:42 -0800 Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Peter T. Arnold pm7...@comcast.net
wrote:
Wait untill he finds out how much the controls will cost.
I'm not following you... isn't something to modulate the voltage
pretty
I think the standard approach is to use an electric fork lift motor, and
run the batteries at 48V or more. You need a pretty hefty controller to
handle the current (this element seems to be the one you need to buy
new), and you also need to be fairly careful you don't fry your ass or
blow
He can probably get away without shifting much at all. Just leave it in 3rd.
Electric motors have torque at a standstill, unlike combustion engines.
Allan
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 07:51 -0800, Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com
wrote:
I just sold a Saab manual transmission I had lying
for some time. I'm still thinking a 190EV would be fun. I'd do just like that
guy, 5spd (even a 4spd would be fine) and no clutch.
-Curt
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 07:51:27 -0800
From: Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] OT: homebrew
I'd like to build an electric Karman Ghia
Wilton
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I just sold a Saab manual
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I just sold a Saab manual transmission I had lying around to a guy who
is going to build an electric car out of a rolling Saab 99 shell he
has. He plans to install the transmission just as in a gas car
Wilton wrote: I'd like to build an electric Karman Ghia
A VoltsWagen? I know I'm stealing that one.
Kevin in Hillsboro, Oregon
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Wilton wrote: I'd like to build an electric Karman Ghia
A VoltsWagen? I
http://evalbum.com/2367
Lots of others, even some finished ones. :)
You can (or at least could a year ago) pick up a controller for $1-2k for a
decent 120-144v system. Some people would parallel a bunch of 12v chargers,
or buy a $500 charger if you don't like fire in the garage. Add in a $1k
Tim C bb...@crone.us writes:
I love EVs conceptually, and if I had time and $10k in mad cash the 240D
would be rolling around town with upgraded suspension, an electric motor
and 288v of lead (or lithium for just a little more :). Unfortunately (?)
both were lacking so now it's being turned
I'm not following you... isn't something to modulate the voltage
pretty much the only control you need? Just a potentiometer connected
to the throttle cable? And for charging, just a Battery Tender.
Yeah. Let's say you can get by with about a 100HP electric
motor. Let's say it's about 100V
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