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Old 02-26-2012, 05:08 AM   #5511 (permalink)
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Has anyone used the 500amp revolt board to control parallel motors? Gonna try today so if I don't make it I want you guys to know its been an honor

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Old 02-26-2012, 04:43 PM   #5512 (permalink)
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Well i'm still here! Ran the motorbike with the motors in parallel today up to 250 battery amps. Held the front brake and cracked the throttle. Back wheel broke traction then the front wheel lost grip and I went sliding the length of the shed , impacted the 100kg tig welder and shoved it through the back wall! Gotta love twin motors I reckon I could tow a car with this thing!
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Old 02-26-2012, 05:52 PM   #5513 (permalink)
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Clearly we must have a pulling contest! Your twin motors against my single seven inch WarP
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Old 02-26-2012, 09:07 PM   #5514 (permalink)
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I'll pit either against my 10.5" Nissan forklift motor!

I wish we had video of JackBauer sliding across his shed!
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Old 02-27-2012, 02:09 PM   #5515 (permalink)
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Way to go Jack

I do it all the time with robots Two on each side BUT have not put something thru the wall... ....... (yet!)
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Old 02-27-2012, 02:25 PM   #5516 (permalink)
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Liked the video --- and now want to know the dates at MTU it is not a far drive for me to come watch!
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Old 02-27-2012, 04:37 PM   #5517 (permalink)
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we will be at KRC starting saturday night around 6 pm and then we will be leaving the next saturday night about the same time. the competition is oficially from march 5th to 10th
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Old 02-28-2012, 01:45 PM   #5518 (permalink)
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Had an "interesting" experience today. Ran an errand this morning to a local hardware shop and on the way back I had to wait for a gap in traffic to make a right turn. The turn is about 100 yards out from some bad bends and has a 30mph speed limit. So i'm sitting there in 3rd gear waiting for a gap. Looked in the rearview and see a white freezer truck round the bend at warp speed and the driver has dropped something in the cab and is not looking at the road

I rammed the accelerator to the floor (and I do mean RAMMED!) and leaned on the horn. One back tyre broke traction briefly and the car launched forward. Truck kept getting bigger and bigger in the rearview then when I was bracing for the impact we pulled apart. I reckon I did 0-40mph in about 3 seconds!! Got back to work and we plugged in laptop into the bmv600. It had caught a peak current of 541Amps.

The funny thing is that Adam had asked me to do this several times and I never did as i figured I'd break something!
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Holy moly. Thank goodness for max torque at zero rpm.
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Thanks for that empirical data Damien!
Exactly what I needed to solidify my decision to go with a PowerGlide tranny!

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