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Originally Posted by jkv357
Here's a photo of the start of today's Electrathon competition - (attachment below)
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Oh yeah. Electrathon. Modern soap box derby. I studied the art form when my daughter's high school bought a chassis. They never found the money to do anything more than look at it.
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To Bad the electrathons got totally rained out from even showing up on the Saturday I was competing at Watkins Glen. I was looking forward to checking them out. World champ C. Michael Lewis was there navigating in a diesel engine swap Insight. He didn't bring his electric.
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How much loss is there in a wide open controller? One idea I had would be to set your wide open gearing to the predicted average speed and have a boost button actuate a starter solenoid which would by-pass the controller whenever there was no traffic to eliminate the heat loss.