Water cooling is happening
One of our test motors being fitted for water cooling.
EnerTrac Raw Feed
This is where one can read about EnerTrac and get some unpolished from the hip talk. Its also the place to learn what we are working on, without the marketing fanfare just plain talk. Who are we anyway? To find out go to www.enertrac.net
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Labels:
custom wheels,
electric motorcycles,
liquid cooled hub motor,
motorcycle hub motor,
Race motor
Friday, August 10, 2012
Time to get back into some technical work
I have been working on a way to detect if a cell goes low in a LIFEPO4 pack without monitoring every cell. The method works only if the cells are top balanced. The pack I did the development work with is a 42 cell 40AH GBS pack from Elite power solutions using there basic balancer board that sits on top of the cell. This is a stand alone board with no commutation to any readout board or computer. So I have no wires coming off the cells for monitoring.
The method I proposed is based on the principle that if you top balance then when the pack starts to be drained one cell, the cell with the lowest capacity will drop in voltage first. This being said if one broke the pack into two half for measurement purposes
Positive
Center tap
Negative
Now if we measure the balance between the two half's when the pack is near drained one cell is going to drop in voltage first causing a measured imbalance between the two half's secondly the voltage difference between the two half's will become noisy meaning the voltage will bounce around as the cell hit there knee and drop in voltage. This setup can also detect which cell is fully charged first as it's voltage rises above the other cells again causing a pack imbalance.
This is how I set up to measure the balance between the two half's
All the resistors are .1% 100ppm drift very high precision wire wound resistors
Observations:
I have been working on a way to detect if a cell goes low in a LIFEPO4 pack without monitoring every cell. The method works only if the cells are top balanced. The pack I did the development work with is a 42 cell 40AH GBS pack from Elite power solutions using there basic balancer board that sits on top of the cell. This is a stand alone board with no commutation to any readout board or computer. So I have no wires coming off the cells for monitoring.
The method I proposed is based on the principle that if you top balance then when the pack starts to be drained one cell, the cell with the lowest capacity will drop in voltage first. This being said if one broke the pack into two half for measurement purposes
Positive
Center tap
Negative
Now if we measure the balance between the two half's when the pack is near drained one cell is going to drop in voltage first causing a measured imbalance between the two half's secondly the voltage difference between the two half's will become noisy meaning the voltage will bounce around as the cell hit there knee and drop in voltage. This setup can also detect which cell is fully charged first as it's voltage rises above the other cells again causing a pack imbalance.
This is how I set up to measure the balance between the two half's
All the resistors are .1% 100ppm drift very high precision wire wound resistors
Observations:
- The balance between the two half of the pack has never deviated more than 20mv
- A one volt drop in a single cell is 200 mv
- When the pack is full charged and in balance mode I see no more than 70mv
- I I intentionally unbalance the two half's .1watt drain on one half of the pack for 48 hours, when the pack started top balancing I observed 1 volt of unbalance, The balances did there job and the pack settled out at 70mv
Thursday, May 10, 2012
You know you want a Fighter
New video of our latest build - You know you want a Fighter
Labels:
Chopper wheel motor,
Dyno,
E motorcycle,
electric motorcycles,
GPR-S,
motorcycle hub motor,
Race motor
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Our newest Demo bike The EnerTrac Electric
She's almost finished
Specifications
She'll be on the road in a few days
Specifications
- Donor bike Electromotorsport GPR-S with extended swingarm
- EnerTrac Dual motor system DU-603 (30KW continuous power) with a 18 X 6.25 forged aluminum wheel
- Batteries elitepowersolutions.com/ 40 cell 136 volt 40AH with cell balancers
- Controller Kelly Controller KHB 144 volt 500 amp
- Instrumentation ebike.ca Cycle Analyst
She'll be on the road in a few days
Labels:
Chopper wheel motor,
custom wheels,
E motorcycle,
GPR-S
Monday, March 5, 2012
Time for new batteries
I have been struggling with thundersky batteries for way to long and have decided to try a Lipo pack in the bike
Here is a picture compilation of the process from cells to pack in the bike. As of this writing she still isn't back together but will be in a few days.
The cells come from Hobby King Turngy four cell 5AH hard case packs. I'm building this up as a 8P 28S pack or 115 volts @ 40AH. We'll see how these fair over time and hopefully without any incidents
A second side benefit is the bike is losing over 50 pound of weight!
Here is a picture compilation of the process from cells to pack in the bike. As of this writing she still isn't back together but will be in a few days.
The cells come from Hobby King Turngy four cell 5AH hard case packs. I'm building this up as a 8P 28S pack or 115 volts @ 40AH. We'll see how these fair over time and hopefully without any incidents
A second side benefit is the bike is losing over 50 pound of weight!
Labels:
Battery pack,
E motorcycle,
electric motorcycles
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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