KermitTheCar

Today I did most of the overhaul of my motor drive. I got a surplus enclosure and am repackaging all of the guts of the drive to be more co...

After learning that we do in fact need capacitors , I bought a nice big 230 uF capacitor made especially for this purpose: The problem of l...

Well, it turns out that my assumption that the car failed from overheating was wrong. I dug into the inverter, and discovered that two of t...

I have learned quite a bit about motors since setting out to rewind mine. First, I was wrong about my old motor being a 2 pole machine. It...

It turns out that I made an error in assuming that there must be an even number of slots per pole. There is a method of winding called lap ...

I decided to tackle removing the motor and beginning the process of rewinding by having a look at the old windings. It turned out that the ...

Since the last post, I drove the car back and forth to work (2.5 mi each way) a few times, and enjoyed getting the control settings to be a...