Photon Project: Help needed
Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 2:19 pm
Dear all,
I was hoping to introduce you to a finished project, but time and financial urgency require that I turn to some like minds. I'm a medic, not an engineer, so consider these an amateurish first attempt:
http://bas-photon-car.blogspot.com
As you can see, the car is in trike format with specially designed spaceframe for my two-person format. Skin will be in fibre reinforced resin. Total weight about 500kg. Drive from a rear mounted Impulse9 drive via 3:1 chain reduction - simple bike mechanics with a 600A 96V drive to back up the light frame. I have no pics of the motor and cells in situ, though the chassis is rolling again after painting.
Now I'm stuck with some small particulars. I can't seem to find provision or advice on the following components:
a. Main contactors / Reversing contactors.
b. Appropriate control circuits
c. Metering of drive electrics.
d. EMI reduction components.
If anyone could help with any of these, I would be immensely grateful. I'd love to showcase the project on the BVS platform, but I did want to make some solid progress before introducing myself.
~bas
I was hoping to introduce you to a finished project, but time and financial urgency require that I turn to some like minds. I'm a medic, not an engineer, so consider these an amateurish first attempt:
http://bas-photon-car.blogspot.com
As you can see, the car is in trike format with specially designed spaceframe for my two-person format. Skin will be in fibre reinforced resin. Total weight about 500kg. Drive from a rear mounted Impulse9 drive via 3:1 chain reduction - simple bike mechanics with a 600A 96V drive to back up the light frame. I have no pics of the motor and cells in situ, though the chassis is rolling again after painting.
Now I'm stuck with some small particulars. I can't seem to find provision or advice on the following components:
a. Main contactors / Reversing contactors.
b. Appropriate control circuits
c. Metering of drive electrics.
d. EMI reduction components.
If anyone could help with any of these, I would be immensely grateful. I'd love to showcase the project on the BVS platform, but I did want to make some solid progress before introducing myself.
~bas