Category: Blat
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PTEVIS – Progress #1 youTube Video
Project sEVen progress video covering the purchase of the Caterham project car, road registration, IVA considerations, and early setup for the electric conversion.
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Lowflying part 5 : Spring ’24 Progress
So, it was about time I did an update for the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club magazine, Low Flying. This article is the Spring 2024 progress update and covers: Scanning the Car Component Configuration CANbus Configuration Suspension Logger
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PTEVIS Suspension Logger Mini-Project
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 the PTEVIS project,…
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.2
Second Project sEVen electric-vehicle explainer covering the major EV conversion components, including battery, motor controller, low-voltage systems, charging, and supporting electronics.
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The Electric in Electric Vehicles – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.1
First Project sEVen electric-vehicle explainer covering core EV terminology, high-voltage and low-voltage systems, batteries, motors, and controllers for the Caterham conversion.
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3D Scanning My EV Conversion Project Car
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 way more other…
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PMSM Motor Internals Video
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 those down to…
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Finally a good Press-Stud Tool
This one’s as much a note for me so I know what I did to make this finally work. I’ve been looking for a decent way of fitting press-studs for things like boot covers. I’d tried the standard manual tap-and-hope tools that are supplied with the car and with SoftBitsForSevens kits. But that always seemed…
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Youtube Project Kick-off
Project sEVen kickoff video introducing the Caterham electric conversion, the project goals, and why the video series exists alongside the written build notes.
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Lowflying part 3 : EV Bits and Pieces
This article first appeared in the February edition of the Caterham and Lotus Seven Club’s Lowflying magazine. I also created an animated overview of all of this in this video below: A more detailed version of this video will be coming soon. And here’s the text of the article… Overview In this instalment, we’re going…