A Caterham Seven Blog
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PTEVIS Suspension Logger Mini-Project
Post Views: 227 As part of my Putting The EV in Seven project, I decided I needed a big detour into suspension travel on a Seven. That sounds like a good route to getting my project finished quickly, right? Well, it goes a bit like this. In a non-linear-timey-wimey sort of way of looking at…
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.2
Post Views: 290 This is the second of two explainer videos I’ve created to help YouTube viewers understand the concepts, terminology and physics of what’s going on in my Caterham Seven EV conversion. I’ve made these two videos so I can refer back to them in my progress videos and so I don’t need to…
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The Electric in Electric Vehicles – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.1
Post Views: 422 This is the first of two explainer videos I’ve created to help YouTube viewers understand the concepts, terminology and physics of what’s going on in my Caterham Seven EV conversion. I’ve made the videos so I don’t need to keep explaining each concept every time I mention it in a subsequent video…
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3D Scanning My EV Conversion Project Car
Post Views: 296 Excuses, Excuses Ok… so… I’ve been distracted. Since starting this EV conversion project I’ve got a bit distracted by a couple of other projects. The first was the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club, in general and specifically the move to the new website. But I also found I was getting involved in…
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PMSM Motor Internals Video
Post Views: 352 As part of a larger explainer video I wanted to show how a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Works. I wanted to show how the stator and rotor interacted with their respective magnetic fields and currents. The video shows how a simplified motor is constructed with a Stator and Rotor and then breaks…
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