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Simple Engine Cooling Explained
Finally after nearly 5 years of work (on and off) I’ve published my Caterham Duratec Cooling video to YouTube. This video was the result of some pretty off the cuff comments made when I was first building my Caterham kit car. I posted about how the cooling worked on my car (after I’d done a…
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My Engine Animation WorkFlow
WARNING: this is strictly speaking a non-car related post… it’s more about animating 3D infotainment videos. This post has mainly been written so I can remember what, and why, I did what I did to create my Engine Cooling Animation. It will also be interesting to Blender Heads setting up a mixed OS render farm…
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PTEVIS – Progress #1 youTube Video
Well this video wasn’t quite the mammoth effort that the last two “explainer” videos were, but it still took over 50 hours to make. The video covers the purchase and road registration of the project car from 2022 through to the spring of 2023. I cover the options for getting the car road registered and…
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ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPONENTS – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.2
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 explain each concept…
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The Electric in Electric Vehicles – YOUTUBE PTEVIS 2.1
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 and I’ll be…
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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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Putting the EV in sEVen – Youtube Project Kick-off
While I’ve been writing articles for the Caterham and Lost Seven Club’s Lowflying magazine, and doing a few Instagram and Facebook posts, I’ve not got around to creating the kick-off video for the Electric Seven Conversion project for Youtube, until now. I’m not really expecting this video to set the world alight, but it’s necessary…
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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…
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2021 Cadwell Park Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes
Aaaannnddd… Here’s another quick behind the scenes post about making my second Lotus Seven Club track day introduction video. If you want some background on what this is all about then this post has it all ( 2021 Castle Combe Track Day INTRO – Lotus Seven Club YouTube Video ), and so I won’t repeat…
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2021 Castle Combe Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes
When I joined the Lotus Seven Club leadership team as Social Video lead, one of the tasks I took on was to create introduction videos for the club’s Track Day program. Each year the Lotus Seven Club puts on 8 to 10 track days around various circuits in the UK. There’s a mixture of novices…
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200,000 YouTube Views!
So I haven’t posted a great deal on here recently… As some of you may have noticed we’ve not been able to get out much, and that has affected what I’ve been able to do with the car. As we sit here today, in March of 2021, the car actually has no MOT and is…
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YouTube Novice Trackday
Today I finally got to posting my 2018 and 2019 track day experiences as a YouTube video. I’d recorded quite a lot of video at the Rockingham 2018 L7C Novices Trackday, but hadn’t got around to turning it into something fit to be published. After the unexpected success of the build video I was looking…
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Build A Caterham 420R in 30 Minutes – YouTube Video
On July 11th 2020, I uploaded a bit of a longer video to YouTube documenting the build of my 420R from nearly 3 years previously. I’d always planned to do this video, but for the usual many reasons it only got a few hours here and a few hours there since finishing the build in December…
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Driving Clifton Suspension Bridge – YouTube Video
This is a quicky… The weather was good and we were coming out of lockdown, so decided to get the car out for its first small run of the year. The Video I took a much longer run to get fuel and out from Bristol to Leigh Woods, Failand and then back into Bristol over…
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The 2018 Taffia Fish & Chip Run YouTube Video
Warning: this post contains techie stuff. Sorry, had to get that out of the way. Some people will have gone by now, you can carry on reading if you like this sort of thing. YouTube So, this is my first YouTube video and creating this video of the day out was no mean feat. While…