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Old 09-10-2012, 09:18 PM   #49 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
I say screw regenerative braking.
Lose the regen braking and you can knock off a nice portion of the cost.
Actually regen isn't that expensive ($100 of real added cost or less), its controller manufacturers that make it so because of the novelty.

AKA a series wound motor and a shunt wound motor really aren't any more expensive to produce in terms of cost to produce.

The controllers aren't that far apart in cost of materials either.

Now retail, sadly it has little to do with cost of materials in the specialty market.

Also remember overseas there are regen series wound controller available (and its mainly programming to get the feature) although less effective they would be very cost effective.
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