Well Shawn Waggoner and Matt Graham just sent me some pics of the finished bike and well shes a beauty. What an awesome job you guys did on this project. These guys have been burning the watts every night preparing for the Battery Beach Burnout set for this Friday and Saturday. Along with the good news came some bad. The Yellowjacket will not be finished in time and so I get my first taste of what it’s like to be involved in racing. After seeing Orange Crush the wait for the Yellowjacket to emerge will seem like an eternity. I posted 3 pics of Orange crush in the Tiny Tim album. Orange Crush is now being powered by Mighty Tim of which I didn’t grab pictures of. The Mighty motor looks the same only it has just 2 terminals and can not change direction.

On another note Utah State sent me a pic of their motor installed and wired for series. I had wanted them to test it in series parallel to see what the differences are now I’ve seated the brushes and then to use that as the base data, but you know boys and their toys they went right to series, what can you do 8^ ). They got 200 yards down the path when a battery connection melted after someone forgot to tighten it back up, kids these days, LMAO. They intend to try again tomorrow so I hope I can obtain that needed data as to how this works in the real world. I was able to peel the OEM stickers off and reapply them after I had trimmed the housing even. I had wanted to paint it with the school colors but failed to find a suitable look in the short time I had to work on this project. Being I wasn’t able to get a pic of the finished motor (forgot camera) it was nice to get this one to add to their album so take a look.

For those who haven’t heard about Jeff Shanab’s Warp9 exploded comm, well it was a dosie. The exploding force was so hard on the brush ring that it sheared the four 1/4 X 20 screws that held it down to the plate clean off. It smeared the coil windings down through about a 1/4 of the total turns. There had been talk about a Siamese9 but time became a restaint. There had been talk about using a steel comm, but again became mute to the needs of a timely and affordable motor. As a best option plan I suggested to Jeff we use an ADC9 armature with his shaft and install an ADC brush set and brush ring. I believe this will be a unit that will save him some money and be something he’ll be happy with and show that even in ashes a Phoenix can be born. I created an album in Ouch for his motor pic series so have a look at Jeff’s Warp Speed. so far I have the field coil repair series there. I’ll be posting the armature, and brush ring pics soon.

Hey All

Well Christopher Robison has graciously create a new home for me to post and share pics and info.  This is something that I could not have done myself without a loss to both hair and money.  Many thanks go out to him for his efforts both on this matter and to the tireless efforts he donates to the EV community.  This post is serving as both a test (new program use) and to welcome everyone to a newer and more user freindly home for Hi-Torque to opperate.  Chris has shared many great ideas toward creating a site geared for the EV community.  He also tweaked my Logo a bit which I found to be not only pleasing, but also a nice surprise.   Although this will be a work in progress it is my intention to keep it less corperate and more community goaled.  There will be areas for you all to post links to your web blogs and for others to place their business links.  Again, welcome to our new home and excuse the mess as we suffle the contents from the freebie site to this location.

Jim Husted

Hi-Torque Electric