Well it wouldn’t be fair to do a Warp 101 without an ADC 101 now would it. Today I got a chance to take a look into a new Advance FB1-4001. I made a new album called what else ADC 101. The motor all and all was in pretty good shape but had a few issues I delt with. The motor came in for a rpm sensor mod and shaft exstension piece. Being I had to take it all apart I thought I’d grab some pics to share with everyone. Anyway I hope you enjoy them and I hope it shows the attention to detail I believe it takes to deliver a well made motor. I noticed that I failed to get any machining action pics for you do it yourself guys and in fact it’s due more to I’m in work mode rather than educate mode. I’ll try to remember to grab those type of shots and will post them to the how to do album, alas it’s empty and i wanted to let you all know I’ll try harder to grab those type of shots.
March 28, 2006
March 27, 2006
“Jimmy rigging” Gone Postals front motor
Being a “good” motor guy is alot like being a doctor. In as much as all motors are alike they each have their own what I call their personality (which most people don’t like to hear). Some run at the lower end of spec and some on the higher end when comparing amp’s and rpm’s. Likewise their ailments are different according to use from the different voltages and load’s being applied. In short one mans problem may lie in one area while anothers lies in another. Many of the “issues” I deal with are those over spinning the commutators, but Rod’s issues lie more in the current department. Face it he’s racing a 4300 Lbs. beast and can benifit from any ability to draw current better. Rod asked me if I could remove the brush bridge for a bit larger brush to fit. I’m a “I can do that kinda guy” and said sure, lmao. Well having now “done it” i wanted to post some pics of the mounted brush ring assembly and it can be seen here and on page two. For those who notice that Rod’s plate has 4 terminals, that is his existing modification that I just repeated using heavier leads. I got to talk to Rod today and well I can’t wait for him to get his eyeballs on it. I’m hoping to arrange a Wayland to Rudman to Wilde shuttle to save some freight 8^ )
March 23, 2006
From Heaven To Hell
I recieved an update (last week) from Nate Hansen from Utah State and the success of their electric snowmobile which just competed this month. I will include a snip at the end of this to list their achievments and hard work. I so enjoy getting the good reports where everything is just riding right as rain. But then I get this email today from Nate that has a bad subject line. The theme to Jaws starts playing in my head, DaDom, DaDom…
I open the email and it has just one or two lines and an attachment. It said this is what happens when a belt breaks… 8^ 0 I downloaded the pic and, well, it’s horrible! THOSE AGGIE BASTARDS KILLED MY..THEIR MOTOR, AHHHHH! In forklits the biggest killer is low batteries, with EV’er it’s clearly over-reving the armature! I’ve ordered in some Kevlar and will begin doing some comm banding and see what that will add to the commutators ability to handle these ”accidental” but damaging rpm’s. On another unhappy note I recieved the first armature I had done, come back due to the back knuckle windings lifting. This one was basically a standard banded armature. Let me tell you I bad-ass-banded this puppy good and gave it a dip and bake and will get it balanced up. Anyway I got to see a couple more reasons why these motors need to be as banded as possible for anyone pushing the higher rpm’s. The destructo pic can be seen here in the Hall of Flame Album 8^ (
Hello All-
The Utah State University Electric Snowmobile Team has impressively and successfully competed in the SAE Clean Snomwobile Challenge 2006 in Houghton, MI. We dominated our competition and won every category that we were comparatively scored in. Our team won every award that we were eligible for, including: Best Zero-Emmissions Design, Best Zero-Emmissions Range, Best Zero-Emmissions Overall, and also a “Rookie of the Year” award.
Our electric snowmobile competed head to head with gas powered snowmobiles in every event, and the judges were impressed with our performance. The only area in which we were not competitive was in range. We demonstrated a range of 9.5 miles, which was two miles further than any other attending electric snowmoblie traveled. In all other areas (handling, design, practicality, comfort, noise, etc.) our snowmobile performed very respectively, many times surprising the judges with it’s level of performance.