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Ev Archive for October 1998
1332 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:43:21 2001

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Re: DC-DC?




-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Davis <tatra_generation@hotmail.com>
To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 10:50 PM
Subject: DC-DC?


It wouldn't be as much a wiring nightmare as it would be a hazard to expose
the driver and occupants to accessories running at that high of a voltage
and current. Especially in a crash !

Ray Boggs


>I was thinking the other night, when (notice I said when not if) major
>manifactures begin to build mass quanitys of EVs, will DC-DC or AC
>transformers be nesscary? My point is, will the accessorys still be
>12vdc or will they switch to the pack voltage. It seems more effecent,
>both money and engery, to have all the accessorys to run at the pack
>voltage. For instance, lets say a future EV has a 144 vdc pack, would
>it be advantagous to have headlights and other accesorys to be 144vdc or
>to step them down to 12vdc? Or would the wiring me a nightmare?
>Kyle Davis
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