Friday, September 14. 2007

Judebert's EV Conversion Diary: Range Troubleshooting

I apologize in advance for writing this so long after the fact. Nathan came over last Sunday (2007-09-09), and we tried to figure out why I got such short range on my last trip.

There are three main candidates: brush advance, rolling resistance, and battery charge.

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Tuesday, September 4. 2007

Judebert's EV Conversion Diary: Mystery Problems

So, now that the motor is correctly hooked up, I took it out for a test drive. Everything went well enough, but my accelerator is only giving me about half throttle or so. Nathan came over and discovered that I'd attached the potbox in the wrong orientation; that and a little tweaking fixed that problem.

So, time for another test drive. That's much better! Wait, what's that bucking? And the crackling noise? And the motor stink is back, too.

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