Electric Mini These pages are a semi private space for me to record information about my electric car. I realise it may not make a lot of sense right now, I'm torn ...
Master Cylinder I am converting from vacuum servo to manual brakes. I considered an after market racing master cylinder but settled on a new circuit master cylinder ...
linux.conf.au Wellington January 2010 http://www.lca2010.org.nz/programme/papers info Abstract Recent advances in lithium battery technology make converting a regular ...
I plan an on board PFC 30 charger. It is supplied with a NEMA 14 30 plug on a short cable. This standard isn't used anywhere in New Zealand and the plug supplied ...
Someone worked hard to make Golf City stormer work again, lots of details of the simovert long: http://www.elektroauto.ba/EA/HAPCEVP/golf3/inverter/index.html Reversing ...
Front The subframe will require some additions to mount the motor, inverter and cells. Niel Fraser of 0800 Certz advises: 3mm plate welded to the frame in the ...
Traction Fuses I got 2 A50QS150 fuses from Sales. The plan is to use one of them in the car, and keep the other as a spare so I'm not ever tempted to drive without ...
Metric Mind supplied two S307 series contactors in a box. The Arc Chamber comes off fairly easily after unscrewing the nylon screw in the top of the contactor. The ...
VW Drive By Wire Pedal I got a 2003 Polo pedal from http://www.vwspares.co.nz/ for $150 GST. This fits better than the Zilla Hall Effect Pedal because the pedal arm ...
Siemens Siadis Inverter Software Designed to run on 1990's hardware. Doesn't run well on modern hardware. Tried qemu serial /dev/ttyS0 c.img with freedos on my ...
Steve West's MR S in Auckland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ZIAV18WOBgs John Wayland's White Zombie in Portland http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/whitezombie ...
Tiny Tiny Air Conditioning system about EV air conditioning http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble p18739293 Musterflux Sierra Compressor I've ...
I need approximately a 7:1 reduction. I first planned to put the motor on top of a mini gearbox and them with a belt, but I got nervous about the strength and lifetime ...
EVision Vehicle Speed The Simovert provides a motor speed output, 5000Hz at 10000rpm. This can be adjusted by a configurable factor f out factor . The EVision ...
The mini driveshafts differential width is 400 470 215 1085mm I will have the mitsubishi shafts cut down to the same total length http://www.carrott.org/blog/uploads ...
While my battery will largely use us bars rather than cables, I will need some crimped connections for the cables between the front and the back of the car. recommends ...
Analysis of a different, larger siemens motor (the one that comes up on ebay) http://www.zuglet.com/ev/fordsiemens/fordsiemens.html Running In See http://carrott ...
Connecting an 80's Mitsubishi gearbox to the motor while making the assembly small enough to fit in a mini is challenging. See outlinesimple.dxf for the adapter plate ...
Customs Duties and Tariffs Duty The motor, controller batteries came into the country duty free! For a while I was worried because the Tariff of New Zealand is ...
Rolling resistance may be calculated using only a GPS and some hills. rate of change of kinetic energy rate of change of gravitational potential energy power lost ...
From RollingResistance we know that power required at 95km/h is approximately 11kW. We assume 85% efficiency, and calculate current at 240V, 288V and 324V. We choose ...
ElectricMini Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the ElectricMini web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ...
Use GPS to record constant speed rolling down hill. Using GPSRollingResistanceCalculator we calculate the drag power required to maintain various speeds. The data ...