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Ev Archive for August 1998
1413 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:42:56 2001

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Re: ?over voltage battery pack?



>condition).   2) A magnetic permeability test on the motor will determine
>when the motor magnetically saturates, ie. the point at which an increase
>in voltage no longer results in a increase in magneto-magnetic force (mmf),
>ie no more real shaft power output; instead the motor heats up.   I did
>this test for one of my Citicar motors and it turns out that it staturated
>at about 60 volts.   Given that the typical controller being a PWMC eg.
>Curtis,  it is the "average" voltage that is of concern when in saturation.
> And, since this state of "high average voltage" occurs only for short
>periods of time (acceleration), monitoring the motor temperature would be
>more indicative of the state of the stress imposed on the motor.  If this
>does not make sense.... comments please.
>

Just one question,  how did you test the motor for magnetic saturation?  Is
this something I could do?