Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Rotation

It was a big day for the bike.
The motor turned for the first time today.

I've been making good progress at figuring out wiring details in the past weeks and we finally got to a point where we could pretty safely test the contactor, controller, motor and throttle. It seems to work, which is really exciting. The controller was programmed to greatly limit is output and after minor troubleshooting, the controller's LED showed it was ready and without errors. It's a bit jerry-rigged at the moment, but we'll be making more permanent connections soon in order to do test runs and get it inspected.

Here are a couple pictures of the controller. Like I said, jerry-rigged for testing!

Rear Panel:



Front Panel:



-Colby

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