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11-29-2016, 02:14 AM | #11 |
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Re: First Steps for MORE POWER
He went really fast down a hill, causing the rotor inside the motor to expand (blow up), locking up the rear axle. This fast trick to destroy parts happens fairly regularly. Learn from that mistake. Consider your flat ground top speed as your down hill top speed also. If you can't resist the temptation, at least you know what the risks are (possible grenaded motor, fried controller, and possible crash from loss of control from sudden locking rear wheels at high speed). One or more could result, roughly in the above order of risk of happening Fun.
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11-29-2016, 02:42 AM | #12 |
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Re: First Steps for MORE POWER
cgtec thanks for posting that. I didn't know that could happen.
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11-29-2016, 09:18 AM | #13 |
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Re: First Steps for MORE POWER
2 things claim the most motor failures. Going too fast and going too slow.
While excessive speed can spin the motor apart, extended operation in high load mode (creeping) can cause excessive heat build up which basically burns up the motor. |
11-29-2016, 11:52 AM | #14 | |
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I was running a stock PDS motor at 42V through a DCX controller, which doesn't use the speed sensor data from the motor and has no idea of what the motor RPM is. My tires are only 17" tall, so I get a 6% increase in torque throughout the motor's RPM spectrum and could get a bit over 28 MPH on level ground, which was spinning the motor at about 6900 RPM, but I seldom went over 25 MPH (6135 RPM). As Scotty mention, sepex motors get hot when ran at high RPM as well as getting hot when ran at low RPM like all series motors do. I had been running flat out on a hilly, curvy road for about two miles and decided to head back home after getting to the bottom of the far side of the tallest hill on the road, so the motor was mighty hot, above 200°F. I had a GPS with me and after climbing back to the top of that hill, the urge to find out how fast the cart would go downhill overpowered my common sense and I left my foot on the floor. About a half mile of fairly straight downhill pavement with a curve at the bottom. Golf carts are not designed to go fast, so I was concentrating on steering carefully and watching the road rather than the GPS or motor temperature, but everything was going fine until I decided to slow down for the curve at the bottom of the hill and lifted my foot. When the regen braking kicked in, the cart started to slow and then the rear tires started to slide. I managed to keep it in a fairly straight line, but there was almost a brown stripe on the seat in addition to the two black stripes on the pavement. Fortunately, the arcing sounds and smoke coming from the controller stopped when I flipped the Run/Tow switch to Tow. Unfortunately, I was blocking one of the two lanes and I couldn't move the cart because the back wheels were locked. A guy in a pickup helped me drag it off the road, and I had to get a flatbed type wrecker haul it home. IIRC, the max speed on the GPS was 33.4 MPH, so the motor was spinning about 8200 RPM when the regen braking kicked in. The motor was totally seized and I could not drive the armature out with a sledge hammer, but I believe the failure was caused by a combination of heat and RPM. Attached are pictures of what a stock PDS motor looks like, What my motor looked like aft the armature became one with the field windings and what the replacement motor looks like. |
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12-04-2016, 06:16 PM | #15 |
Not Yet Wild
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Re: First Steps for MORE POWER
Ive been studying and checking stuff out and I'm not sure if I should get the 400 or 500 Alltrax controller. Eventually I would like to use my golf cart as a hunting buggy, to be used for riding steep trails and pulling a load at times.
Would I regret getting the 400 controller wishing that I would have forked over the extra ~$125 for the 500 controller? Or would I be happy and ignorant of the extra power I would be missing from the 500 controller? I am buying battery cables, new controller/solenoid and one day adding 2 more batteries and replacing the motor. EZGO PDS Regen 36v |
12-04-2016, 06:21 PM | #16 | |
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12-04-2016, 06:56 PM | #17 | |
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