Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The TECO works

No pictures yet but, this evening I've got a temporary setup going to help me work through all the parameters that have to be set on the TECO drive.
I've got 430 VDC from a single phase transformer/rectifier feeding direct into the drive which is giving me enough power to have the drive run a little three phase door operator motor from KONE in Perth. Many thanks to the Mod's department for freeing up this old equipment.

Plans now are to work through the parameter setup and take some voltage and current readings from this so I can work more accurately calculating the battery I'm going to need when all this goes into the Move.
Also I got The drive to spin the ASEA motor with a fan belt between the motors, so I can now confidently say this will work as a generator when I'm decellerating in the car, although it's only giving me 1.2Volts ph to ph at these low speeds.
There's lots more to come . . . . .

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