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Old 12-30-2009, 04:27 PM   #2834 (permalink)
bennelson
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Oh sure, talk about Ben blowing things up again.....

Actually, that was sort of almost on purpose. It was the very first design, and we knew there would be some issues with it. So, the idea there was to test the controller until destruction, and then fix whatever the problem was.

Since that correction and rebuild, running on the same original controller, it has worked FANTASTIC!!!!

Paul, was my controller the very first one? It is still the one you originally tested in your car at 72V isn't it?


PS: I did see a guy's home-built controller which looked all crazy because it had wires going everywhere. I asked why, and he told me that it was so there was all the exact same distance between all the parts for the signals to stay dead-on
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