http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog It's about Electrathons and EVs Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:13:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I emailed work last night to say I was going to Wenatchee with Marcelo da Luz to be his support driver. Here is another picture, by Kelly Gillin of the Wenatchee World, of Mercelo talking to some of the students of Wenatchee High School. Marcelo and I spent Monday night installing a ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/12/04/power-of-one-in-wenatchee-wa/ The Power of One Solar car project is in town! What is the Power of One? Nine years ago, Marcelo de Luz from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was inspired when he read about the World Solar Challenge, a solar race across Australia. He decided one person could make a difference, and the ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/12/01/the-power-of-one/ It is here at last: now you can download the latest version of BSDs MK3 Reg Scaner software! When you unzip it, you will get a brief manual, and the setup files. By running the "setup.exe" file, the Reg Scanner software will be installed on your computer. The default directory is: ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/11/02/mk3-reg-scanner-software-page-is-up/ OK, I promised, so here we are:This is what turns out to be the bottom of the board where the interesting bits live. This is the top of the board with the load resistors sticking up in the breese. And how it looks mounted to a "Ligntning Bolt" ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/10/18/lithium-reg-pictures/ Are you thinking of using Lithium batteries in your next EV conversion? At around $200 per cell, you probably want to protect that investment. To help you, I just got the first pass of my Lithium Iron Phosphate battery regulator working! It is a 1 ohm load, that switches on ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/10/17/bsd-lithium-iron-phosphate-regulator/ Jeff has been driving his Zenn for 10 months now. He found that his batteries had about twice the capacity that the in-dash "Fuel Gauge" indicated, and that the BatMan3-EV was much more useful than what Zenn provides. They had drained their batteries a bit more than they should have a ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/10/11/jeffs-zenn-2/ Dave Cloud called today at lunch from Lewiston, Idaho. There is good news, bad news, and good news. The old Electrathon record was 53MPH, which Shannon beat. The bad news is that She didn't win. The other good news is that Michael Lewis beat us AGAIN, while breaking his record ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/10/08/another-electrathon-record/ Today was a busy day! It started out getting a couple of BatMan3-EV's ready to ship. The problem was one of them was a new version with the DC to DC converter inside the unit. I suppose that shouldn't be too much of a problem, all except for the ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/10/04/spirit-of-dc/ My friend Jeff drives a Zenn. It has a 72V pack of 6 Discovery batteries. The Zenns "fuel gauge" has about 4 segments, which doesn't give a lot of Information. Dave Cloud installed a BatMan4-EV100, and battery heaters. The next day, Jeff called me to tell me the BatMan had ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/09/30/jeffs-zenn-1/ I got a message from C. Michael Lewis about the Utah Salt Flats Speed Trials. There were 4 cars that he mentioned in his email. The first was a high school car from Salt Lake City, over 50MPH. Then there was Shane, or maybe Daniel, I guess he wasn't sure which ... http://brucesherrydesigns.com/blog/2008/09/26/hello-world/