Category: Magazine Articles
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Day 2 – Northants to Ypres
Today has been a travel day. We set off from Northamptonshire at about 10, Chunnel at 15:30 and set up camp by 18:30. A pretty uneventful day, drizzling until we got past the bottom of the M11 but beautiful now here in Belgium as we sit with a beverage. Thurrock services were the hole that…
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Day 1 – Still in the UK
Ok, so this is a bit of a cheat. We’re still in the UK. We’re taking the opportunity to swing by my (John’s) parent in Northamptonshire for a night, before we head off properly on the trip. But we have started and we are fully packed, except for the stuff we’ve forgotten, obviously! 😀 We…
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Summer 2024 Drive to Greece – Overview
So… we’re driving to Greece… as you do! We have a villa booked in Corfu for 10 days in the middle of September, and in some Cliff Richard-esque Summer Holiday vibe, we decided to reduce our carbon footprint and drive instead of flying. Unlike Cliff though, we had planned to do the trip from the…
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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…