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zeropointbug 05.20.2007 03:23 PM

Brian, did you short all motor phases? I would have thought it would make more of an impact. How big was this drill anyways? :005:

I will do a few experiments myself.

BrianG 05.20.2007 03:26 PM

Which motor were you using and what rpm was the drill Serum? Like I said, I had the drill geared up through the tranny and it just slowed down, but didn't stop the drill. I first started by hooking the drill directly to the motor shaft and found it fairly easy to stop just by holding the motor bare-handed. Maybe my motor was not up to par??

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrianG
I highly doubt that. To get the truck moving it takes X energy. All that energy taken from the batteries does not make it to the wheels because of losses in the batteries, ESC, and motor. The same is true for taking motion and converting it to electricity; there will always be losses. So, you will never be able to take full advantage of kinetic energy.

Minus losses...

I meant whether or not you can only get roughly half (half wave rectifiy), or full bridge rectification? As it would be a sine wave generated, correct?

BrianG 05.20.2007 03:28 PM

Yup, made a Y adaptor out of 12GA wire and used some extra connectors and connected all three phases together. Shorting just two of them resulted in a "detented" feel to the resistance.

The drill was nothing special; just a 3/8" drill. I think it was a 3/4hp rating.

BrianG 05.20.2007 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeropointbug
Minus losses...

I meant whether or not you can only get roughly half (half wave rectifiy), or full bridge rectification? As it would be a sine wave generated, correct?

lol, leapfrogging posts!

I believe it would be full-wave rectification. Each phase would need two diodes for this, which the FETs supply depending on how they are turned on. The result would be a signal that would look like the lower center part of the picture below (borrowed from ntd-ed.org):

http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResou...WavesTABLE.gif

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 03:46 PM

Yeah, exactly. Does it have enough diodes though for this?

I just tried out motor shorting with drill, i used a 3/8 drill on 7XL, all I did was popped some 5.5mm female plugs on motor plugs and held them together. I spun the drill up and then pushed them together, good spark, but rpm's dropped by about 40%, which is alot considering. It was hard to hold onto as well. The motor was slowly getting warm, I did it for about 10 seconds. The connectors were getting very warm, almost hot, probably because from the resistance from them touching only very little.

Also, when I stopped the drill, it stopped almost immediately, normally is spins down a while...

From what I observed, it was far more than enough to flip a MT over, and easily stop it.

Serum 05.20.2007 04:00 PM

Yeah, the motor i deanodized was a 7XL as well.

BrianG 05.20.2007 04:18 PM

Hmmm, even geared up through the tranny, I didn't get that much resistance. My drill also stopped pretty quickly when I removed the power, but there is a lot less inertia in a drill than there is in a 10lb truck moving at 30mph. Maybe it has something to do with the fact I used a 10XL, and you guys used a 7XL.

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 04:37 PM

I find that strange because you would think a 10XL would have more resistance.

How exactly did you de-anodize it without getting it into the motor windings? Would i be able to do it with my 540C 7XL?

BrianG 05.20.2007 04:40 PM

If I read his post correctly, he was using a scotchbrite pad to hold the motor and the abrasion wore away the anodixing off...

GriffinRU 05.20.2007 05:13 PM

I can explain to R&D engineer how it works and why, here we have other problems...

Post the Q and I will answer! But it is very difficult to explain how it works if there such big gaps in theory...

Bring, I am sorry but while your experiment is great, but the way how you explain what happen is really bad!

Do not treat it simple and do not make as complex as it looks..

Serum 05.20.2007 05:19 PM

Less resistance zero;

the lower the KV, the less resistance it has, and the less energy it produces when turning. The higher the KV, the less resistance it has, and the more energy it produces when it's turning.

I did sealed the motor with tape, both the front and the rear. (so the bearings etc. where well protected)

GriffinRU 05.20.2007 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serum
the lower the KV, the less resistance it has, and the less energy it produces when turning. The higher the KV, the less resistance it has, and the more energy it produces when it's turning.

Rene, this is very wrong. The same motor (independent of Kv) produce the same amount of power at given RPM, Efficiency is different...

I will be back later, need to go.

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 05:32 PM

Well, I don't want to seem superstitious or anything... but I think, I THINK there is a new thing out on the street, it's called inductance? :005:

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GriffinRU
Rene, this is very wrong. The same motor (independent of Kv) produce the same amount of power at given RPM, Efficiency is different...


Yes, i agree

Serum 05.20.2007 05:39 PM

then what makes the different KV? it's not efficiency. internal resistance varies with different KV's and since some producers of motors give the KV value with the motor as a generator, i don't think your theory is right?

Serum 05.20.2007 05:45 PM

Sorry Artur; i meant internal resistance; not mechanical resistance..

GriffinRU 05.20.2007 05:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serum
then what makes the different KV? it's not efficiency. internal resistance varies with different KV's and since some producers of motors give the KV value with the motor as a generator, i don't think your theory is right?

Kv have nothing to do with resistance, it just happen that with more turns R goes up...
If you have motor 10 meters of copper wire goes through the magnetic flux but in one configuration you have single wire and in another double, the amount of power would be the same. One will have higher voltage another higher current...

Kv is complex number based on Magnet strength, gap, core properties, windings and much more, there are complicated programs dealing with how to calculate or estimate its value and most of them still black magic, in reality it is much easier to measure...

Now, definitely need to run :)
On braking part, there plenty BL motor control algorithms published on line, fined them check them. There is no other magic then shorting phases to stop the vehicle. And none of real R&D engineers will publish here unless he want to loose his job :)

Serum 05.20.2007 05:52 PM

Yeah, but i was talking about braking; this whole topic is about braking; so when i said that the motor of a lower kv produces less energy when turning; i meant that with the motor as a generator, and the energy it produces when the motor is turning, due to the inertia of the vehicle/moving mass. I guess i told it with too few words..

A lot of misunderstandings are going around here...

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 05:57 PM

higher numbers of turns, higher inductance, along with the core which it's wound on, and some other factors which may be out of control as far as manufacturer techniques that will probably effect efficiency as well as Kv.

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Serum
A lot of misunderstandings are going around here...

I agree, you're not the only one. :005: :019:

supralover72 05.20.2007 06:08 PM

Would it be safe to use motor braking on a MM with 12 NiMh cells in a Jammin buggy with a fegiao 8xl and 14/46 gearing?

Thanks.

BrianG 05.20.2007 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GriffinRU
...Bring, I am sorry but while your experiment is great, but the way how you explain what happen is really bad!

Do not treat it simple and do not make as complex as it looks..

Well, sometimes the answer is simple. I mean, if the FETs short the windings, how is that different than the experiment? The experiment would display the absolute most braking ability since there are no losses in other components since the windings were simply shorted, and there was no PWM action to reduce the effect. Please forgive the ignorance, but I am trying to learn the same as many people here.

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 07:06 PM

I agree with you Brian, that is the most it can do when shorted.

I think a better experiment would be to bring up to speed the wheels of a MT, and have motor connected with no ESC (motor is on motor mount). And then short them out and see how fast it slows it down. Keep in mind, it doesn't take much resistance further up in the drive train to slow things down wind (wheels).

The drill experiment shows lots of resistance, but that is a drill, and a drill only puts out more torque the slower it spins.... so it doesn't show us how fast it would slow it down. I'm thinking a flywheel experiment?

Artur, is there a diagram that you have, or COULD make that would show us exactly what is going on during braking in the FET; AND/OR when the voltage is high enough to charge batts?

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 10:55 PM

Just a thought, another way to brake an R/C car is to use alum. disc with neo magnet (disc type) and have a servo driven actuator to bring it into very close proximity to the disc. This creates tons of shaft resistance, and would not stress motor or anything. BUT, would not be super responsive as the servo would have to move it in and out. But would always work.

BrianG 05.20.2007 10:59 PM

Sounds like it would take about as much time as a normal disc brake setup since you are basically doing the same thing.

zeropointbug 05.20.2007 11:28 PM

actually probably longer, because it has to get aways away from it in order to stop resistance. (does anyone know of a magnetic transistor? :005: )

BTW, this setup cannot be explained by regular Faraday laws of induction. There have been many 'over-unity' claims by such setups.

silentbob343 05.22.2007 04:03 PM

Saw this posted in the tekin forum:
Quote:

Originally Posted by teamtekin
Pretty much everyone is using 30v fets. 6s is getting pretty close and does not leave much headroom for voltage spikes. Some fets handle over voltage better than others. The manufacturers do not address areas beyond the specs so you just have to test them and see. So far these fets are incredible. The better the circuit the lower the spikes and the better the chances, but braking battery regen can still be an issue. If the battery is full and will not accept the regen charge, the voltage can go really high, really fast. Just like motor flyback current that needs a diode or a rectification circuit like our G11, if you do not give the current somewhere to go then voltage spikes can be off the map.

We will know shortly. I am pretty excited about this market and with everything else finishing up we have time now to look at some new challenges.

IF you really need 6s or more and this will not handle it, we will build one that does. That is why we are here learning.

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...?t=6361&page=4
I guess that confirms regen on braking.


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