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I'm not against any of the ideas here just looking at the options. What the revolt controller and forklift motor combination has done for dc conversions can be done for ac. We do however need to be careful of the project heading off into the realm of the fantastic and then not being practical for most people. I've seen quite a bit of that on other ev forums.
One of the big advantages of ac is direct drive and high top end rpm. So can industrial motors fit that bill? I've watched ben nelson's videos of the dodge neon ac conversion with interest. To be honest thats what i thought about doing many years ago when i first got bitten by the ev bug. I think that a lot of the problems being encountered with that project are down to the limitations of the industrial drive and the use of a 4 pole motor instead of a higher rpm 2 pole unit. Interestingly US spec baldor motors of the type used in the neon are available in europe as they are used in phase converters.
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