Gav's EV Conversion 15 - Installing the Main Cables

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The electric car has power!
After 2 days of slithering about underneath the car installing cables and cleaning the garage floor with my back, I've finally finished installing the main cables for the electric car!
The last 10 minutes were the most nerve-wracking as we fought the urge to turn the key and forced ourselves to check all our connections one by one.

In the end, we connected everything and heard the sound of that amazing Curtis 1231C Controller springing into life!
The car was jacked up at this point so We did a test spin of the motor, then a test spin of the car in gear (with the wheels off the ground). It all went GREAT!

The next video will show us taking the car onto the road for it's initial test drive!
Stay Tuned!

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• Gav's
• Electric
• Car
• Vehicle
• Conversion
• Gas
• New
• Plymouth
• Zealand
• Buying
• Motor
• Mitsubishi
• Tredia
• Main
• Cable
• Install

[ftoyo69]

Hi i was just wondering what are the specs(hp,amp.volts) on the electric motor you put into your car as well for the batteries how many volt amp/hr are they... thank you.......,,,??????

[cant7think7clearly]

Gidday! The motor's rated at 100 HP (peak) at 1000 amps and 144 volts.

You can actually put over 200 volts through these motors but you have to keep them cool if you do. The batteries are only 85 a/h each so it's nice & quick but not for long! :)

[anewlow23]

Hey Gav where did you get the metal box that houses the accessory components? and it looks like you hooked motor positive to motor negative is that how its done with a series motor?

[cant7think7clearly]

The metal box was in a storage room at the local telephone exchange (let's just keep that between you, me and the rest of the youtube world). ;)

For some reason, that motor requires a jumper lead between those two posts when used as an EV. Not sure why but I just followed the instructions from the EV America folder that came with it.

[evrimv]

Check the temperature of the controller frequently for now. I hope u face no heat problem.

Very good job! It is time to harvest!

[cant7think7clearly]

Thanks mate! I'm keeping a close eye on everything at this early stage. Controller's doing well so far. Did about 3km of up & down the road driving with the controller only getting warm so it's all good so far!

[linuxbot3000]

@cant7think7clearly

That would be to connect the motor in series configuration

[ivaniclixx]

It' so noisy at low rpms !

Great work !!!

[sgtpepper1138]

haha, my brother has a firebird, and we were thinking the same thing, he bought it years ago and wants to make into KITT, and we were sitting here yesterday and thought how cool it would be to have an EV KITT, and then it would also SOUND like KITT

[theq68]

to help the brakes. normally the engine does that.

[mikedolson]

hey buddy have you looked into the perendev magnetic motor??