This week, we take a look at one of our viewer’s builds. This is a very interesting one to us. If you recall, we bought an electric Spyder, done very similarly to our Part Duh Speedster. The similarity was not entirely accidental. Duane Ball was doing the Spyder in Albany New York at the same […]
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I cannot express my discouragement at this moment and my rage at my own failures here. I cannot find the words or the logic to persuade nor to convince and Im at the point of giving up. http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110319/NEWS/110319406/1350?p=1&tc=pg&tc=ar 1. Total destruction – intense heat. 2. Unattended charging 3. 11:00 PM Number 15 to my count.
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Running a little late this week. I’m just now putting up the blog with the March 11 show – while the March 18 show is rendering. First, the test bench failure was not what it seemed. We thought we had blown up the new TCI 4L80E transmission. Turns out, it was a much simpler and
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Christopher Fischer has been a busy fella. He offered a little help with the web site here at EVTV and I’m guessing wonders what he got himself into. The index is coming along famously. If you go to our archive of past shows page there is a link to this index. This is the most
We mentioned the possibility of a fall event for viewers/electric vehicle builders here in Cape Girardeau during our last show. Things have picked up on this front a bit. We got several e-mails from people wanting to cast it in stone NOW and expressed their intention to come. I’ve e-mailed a couple of potential speakers
Announcing the Electric Vehicle Conversion Convention EVCCON Read More »
Interesting show this week. Mostly a rundown on our additions to the EVTV test bench, which is coming along quite nicely. We’ve added a control panel for the generator, with a contactor, current shunt, control switch and voltage/current displays. This allows us to turn on the generator or leave it off, depending on what kind
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This week we talk a bit more about our EVTV test bench. This is going to come slowly but I think is a necessary part of our Cadillac EXT project and will be quite useful in the future as well. It’s kind of like building a really slow electric car, with extra instrumentation and controls.
It’s Christmas at EVTV. We’ve received a couple of long awaited shipments. The most exciting is of course from Jim Husted – our Siamese Twin Netgain Warp 11 motors – assembled onto a single 100mm shaft. This motor has beefed up brush connections, beefed up field windings, and the new Helwig split brush redtop brushes.
EVTV is distributed on the Internet of course, using Amazon’s Cloudnet service. We now have regular viewers in 115 countries and about 45 percent of our viewers are outside of the United States and Canada. Even here in the United States, the vast majority of our viewers are of course where the vast majority of
A Little Local Coverage… Read More »
Not much going on this week. We’ve been suffering component and supplier setbacks and it is a reminder of the environment we are unfortunately in. The James Morrison EVCompnents case is devolving into a legal morass that has gone on for a year now. Forty three customers were bilked outright of their money – checks
