LouMan's 94 Ford Aspire Electric Conversion

[LouMan]

here's a few pic to pick over, my controller is about done it'll have four 400amp/600v Powerex IGBT's (cm400du-12f), fourteen 1800uF/250v caps, powerex igbt's drivers,

got my first two 220aH batterys they ended up being ~$78 each after tax.
now just 18 more to go Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr any sponsors out there would like there logo on the new electric aspire drop me a pm hehe.

sorry for the blurry pic's the focus is broke on this camera

Good Ecomodding everybody.

Louie.

[MPaulHolmes]

Louie, that thing is beautiful. You are seriously talented. It looks professional. What do you do for a living?

[LouMan]

well I used to sale cars now I sale baby items LOL thanks for the comment I been into electronics since the late 70s I disasembled and drawed out my first electronic circuit at 6 years old it was a 7 transistor am radio I learnt what the parts was on my own, in junior high I was designing my on electronic gadjets and saling them in school.
then learn't a few programing languages wrote a few children learning programs and wrote some of the graphics programs you seen in the stores back in the 80's that atracted attention to the computers sale department.


this controller is still in design phase so expect improvements, one improvement is get a better camera lol.
I want to mount the Kilovac in the case,
I want to mount a red Anderson SB350 Connector to the case for the traction battery connector, and a green one for the motor connector so everything will be plug and play no need to worrie about what wires goes were if you need to remove the controller for some reason.

[jackbauer]

Ya got me beaten hands down! well done

[LouMan]

no Jackbauer your the man today, I've done forgot alot of that stuff I just diddle around with it now and days the dawm of smd's has removed me from the electronics and my memory isn't good enough for a lot of programming anymore I can still write a few scripts and batch files, Paul, Adam, Tesserec ect are the new youngsters on the block.
I got a degree in Idustrial Electricity in 86 and fell in love with motor control and the prospects of microcontrol programming but 86 was when my favorite band came out (Guns-n-Roses) so I put down the keyboard and sordering iron and picked up the guitar to try and play everything Slash could play but ended up just playing on stage at our church witch was a thrill in it's self, even though I was playing gospel I still thought of my self as Slash on stage
Paul inspired me to build my on cnc machine it works I cnc some pictures out of wood every now and then.
I used to go up to the mall back in the 80's and if there was a pretty girl working in the store were they sold computers I would get her name, get in front of the computer and write out a 400 line program and run it and it would show her name in the graphics doing all kind of things, it would really make her blush.

[LouMan]

hey everybody,

not a lot going on right now, remember I'm building this ev with no income just what I make in a yard sale so this will be the ultimate low budget ev.

I got almost all the guages I want to start building my new instrument panel the old spedo and gas guage that made up the whole old one had to go, my new ev will be the cream of the crop of what I want in a ev ins-panal lol, well I hope so anyway lmao.
I'll take some pics of a mock-up panal and yaw can give me some pionters,
I got a layout in mine I'll use some cardbord just for a mockup panal cutout and put the meters in and see what it looks like and if I and everybody thinks it's kool I'll build the real panal and install it.

I hunted on here but can't find a open source dc/dc conv. is there any out there, I was thinking of converting a good 450watt pc power supply I got as a backup, would be easy but was wondering if there was any projects already out there to checkout?
I was thinking of using one of my spare igbt's a (mg200q2ys40) there 200amp(100amp nominal) it would be stronge enough to power the 12v system and not need a system battery.

[MorphDaCivic]

Great thread and project!

I have always wanted to follow a cool electric car build on a shoestring budget.

I had a boss who drove a Ford Aspire. We used to call the car "The Speck". One time we picked it up and put it up on the sidewalk at work. The my boss got a nasty email from management about his parking practices.

[LouMan]

thanks MorphDaCivic,
there not I can do to keep this thread exciting, but I'm trying there is so little I can do with limited resources but I try to keep it interesting, I got many phases of this project started when I should be concentrating on one part at a time, but when you get tired of waiting for parts for one thing you mite as well start another lol

I guess nobody knows about a working open source dc/dc convertor??

[jackbauer]

I wouldn't worry about a dc dc. Its not essential especially at this stage. I use a good agm 12v battery , no dc dc and converted all the lights except the main beam headlights to led. AND i'm running power brakes and steering.

[Tweety]

Or you could build a very efficient and reliable one for very little money... But that would probably be a later stage...

A good way to get decent headlights and decrease consumption would be to retrofit HID projectors... They use ~35W instead of the ~55/65W most halogen bulbs of similar output uses... Combined with LED's you get very low consumption...