Paul & Sabrina's cheap DIY 144v motor controller

[jedsmd]

The the new hall effect PB-6 throttle box clone has arrived from China. I have installed it on the truck and made the wiring changes to the controller board.

It came without a datasheet of any kind so I had to wire it by trial and error. If anyone else buys one of the ones off eBay the wiring for mine was:
+5v - Blue wire
Signal - Black wire
Ground - Brown wire

Measured voltages are:
Zero Throttle +0.20 volts
Throttle contactor closes +0.20 volts
Max throttle +3.95 volts

There is a small flat area at the low end before voltage starts climbing which is why 'zero throttle' and 'contactor closes' voltages are the same.

Paul
Please send me some spread spectrum code
Thanks
Jerald

[MPaulHolmes]

OK, so, I'll make a 7% deadzone? That would mean:

0.07*(3.95v-0.2v) + 0.2v will be zero throttle. And that would mean
0.4625v is zero throttle, and 3.95v is max throttle. And that means 0.4625v*1024/5v ticks of the A/D is zero throttle, and 3.95v*1024/5v ticks of the A/D is max throttle. So, 95 ticks is zero throttle. And 808.96 -> 808 ticks is max throttle. (We should probably round down so max throttle can be achieved)

Now, if the throttle gets disconnected, there's a 4.7k pull-down resistor, that will pull the throttle to 0v. So, let's have 0.05v be the fault point? Any reading below that is BAD. If the throttle goes below 0.05v for longer than 0.2sec, it will flag a throttle fault. At the moment, there's no clearing a throttle fault. You have to turn the power off, and back on again. I must now go do the arduous task of typing in 95 and 808. It could take hours. haha. BRB...

[Astro]

Originally Posted by jedsmd

The the new hall effect PB-6 throttle box clone has arrived from China. I have installed it on the truck and made the wiring changes to the controller board.

It came without a datasheet of any kind so I had to wire it by trial and error. If anyone else buys one of the ones off eBay the wiring for mine was:
+5v - Blue wire
Signal - Black wire
Ground - Brown wire

On the eBay listing they say:
Wiring:
Blue: +5V
White: Hall signal (0-5V output)
Brown: 0V / ground

So at least two of the three colours match reality.

[jedsmd]

Hall effect throttle installed and working. Very nice to drive. I think I was abusing the controller with the previous noisy pot, it is much happier now.
Jerald

[MPaulHolmes]

PHEW!!!!! I am so glad the jumpiness wasn't some other weird thing.

[flores]

Mounted the raspberry inside the controller and connected it:

[MPaulHolmes]

I'm sorry, but that is awesome!!!!

[flores]

If you think that is awesome.. look at this..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itKL...ature=youtu.be

Just twisting the throttle..

[flores]

Now I only need to finish my settings editor and then it's going back into the car..

[MPaulHolmes]

Holy cow!!!! I have so many questions. I don't know what to ask first. I don't really get what the raspberry pi is. Did you write an RTD sort of program in some language and flash the microcontroller on the raspberry pi? What language is it? How is the raspberry pi outputting graphics to a computer?

I used to make video games, and would love to figure that thing out and mess around with it. (Even just separate from the controller. It seems like you can do a ton of things with it). What development environment are you using?