This week we begin testing the new CALB gray cell, the CA180FI. As I mentioned in the last post, these new cells sport some interesting improvements. The most minor, and most welcome, is they are labeled with a serial number and a tested Ah capacity. The cells are manufactured on a newer, much larger production line […]
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This week we begin the more pleasurable work of installing pieces and wiring them up on the 2008 Cadillac Escalade EXT. Some mounting issues. We installed the two Soliton1 controllers at angles above the motors much after the fashion of the old Ford flathead V8. This allows access to all the terminals and still access
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Well, we kinda/sorta have the Speedster Redux back on the road again. We’re a little ginger with the new motor/controller combination with the brush seating issue. But even at a 2000A/sec slew rate we got a 10 second 0-60 time. Hardly anything to brag about I’m afraid. I think we can improve it, but the
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We’ve made some recent progress on the Speedster Part Duh, and rather gotten ahead of ourselves on the video thing. We were trying some things, they came together, and we’re not too much wanting to remove them at this point. So in this video we kind of do a walkaround to show the week’s progress.
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