144V Upgrade!

[bennelson]

The Electro-Metro is now 144 volt!

Thanks to Paul, and all of his hard work on the Open Source controller, I am now test-piloting 144 volts!

I still need to figure out battery charging in this configuration, and am taking things slow to test it all out, but this is getting to be a FUN (and Ecofriendly) car!

Now I will have to make YouTube Videos of me doing burn-outs.....

[SVOboy]

I want to see some drag race clips on youtube

[brucepick]

Go Ben!

[MetroMPG]

Congrats - don't bust your coupler!

[MetroMPG]

Oh - and you might want to look into a brush timing adjustment. It won't be optimized at 144v if it was set for 48 or 72.

[Wilden]

Awsome, I can't wait to see it in action. Have fun with it.

[bennelson]

Originally Posted by Wilden

I can't wait to see it in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nIIPsVfUm8

[Tango Charlie]

Ha ha! It's always the most fun right before you let all the Magic Smoke out! No worries, I'm sure Paul will have you back in business shortly... (D'oh! bad pun!)

[bennelson]

The weird thing was that the controller freaked out just from turning the car off then on in a parking lot.

It seemed to handle burn-outs and 65+mph just fine!

[Wilden]

That is awesome, when I get around to doing a conversion in a couple of years I'm definitely gonna have to use pauls controller design.