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Old 03-11-2011, 05:52 PM   #493 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bennelson View Post
My friend Tom built a 300 volt AC Dodge Neon.
He used a stock AC drive from some decommissioned factory.

The problem is that those drives are not designed with a car in mind. There are a lot of "little things" that had to be taken into account to make the drive really work for a car application.

He's an electrical engineer, and enjoyed the challenge. For the average guy, it would be a lot of work to make all the little tweaks for it to all work.

With an open source build, everything can be designed in right from the start.
would it be a lot easier to program and modify an off the shelf industrial drive than to design and build one from scratch. has anyone tried this?
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