Re: Ammeter Placement

[Joseph Strubhar <jhsgr@JUNO.COM>]

>I have two ammeters (and shunts). One is the E-meter and the other is
>a
>dash-mounted guage.  I know that the E-meter shunt needs to be on the
>most
>negative end of the battery pack. Is there any reason not to put the
>other
>shunt right next to it in series?

Why have two shunts? I am running both the E-meter and ammeter off the
same shunt!

Isn't it more informative to
>measure the
>battery current as opposed to putting the shunt between controller and
>motor and measuring motor current?
>
>Also, can someone help explain the enable feature of an Auburn
>controller.
>I think that the Auburn looks to see if the enable is closed before it
>will
>supply motor power. As it is shown in the Auburn literature, this
>enable is
>intended to be supplied by a switch indicating that the accelerator
>pedal
>is not depressed. So what happens after you press down on the pedal
>and the
>enable is lifted? Does the controller ignore the status of the enable
>switch after it initially powers up?

I believe that this is correct.

Joseph H. Strubhar
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Re: Ammeter Placement