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Old 10-17-2015, 01:14 PM   #311 (permalink)
Piotrsko
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yes but based on my actual driving, you are running anywhere from a (SWAG) AVERAGE 30 to 75% duty cycle depending on terrain, traffic lights, aero drag, and jerks in rice rockets. therefore a large reservoir tank kinda negated the need for really efficient radiators.

for example, the manufacturers commutator max on my Kostov is 425 ish amps @ 192V which I regularly exceed on monster hill, but only for 4 minutes which is just at the temperature limit on the motor. If there is honda jerk at the light midway up monster hill, the overtemp light goes on near the top which throttles back the controller. battery Coolant tank records only perhaps 1 degree of temp increase and there is another 10 minutes to cycle before end of trip which is a lot of coasting.

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