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Re: (ET) Motor control for lift
Scooters have no reverse. Therefore their controllers don't have one.
Dave
Weymouth MA
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:02:57 -0400 Jeff Tickner <jefft softlanding com>
writes:
> If you are using a PWM motor control for the lift, how do you
> reverse?
> I was looking at the controls at electricscooterparts and I don't
> see
> reverse mentioned.
>
> I have a winch I will be replacing my lift motor with and currently
> I am
> planning on adding a 12V 17ah SLA fed by a 3A DC-DC converter. The
> winch
> will be mounted on a steel plate over the charger and feed through a
> hole
> in the grill with a fairlead mounted on it I'm converting to
> Alltrax and
> based on install pictures I've seen I won't have any spare room in
> the
> console so I was going to mount the DC-DC converter and SLA to a
> panel on
> top of the front batteries.
> This would give me a 12V source with no tap for other things as well
> but
> I'm thinking I'm going to beat the crap out of the battery and it
> would be
> better to save it for my lights and controls.
>
> Maybe I would be better off with a motor controller for the lift
> since I
> could control speed as well. At the rate my project is proceeding
> I'm open
> to ideas.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Jeff Tickner
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> 800-545-9485, Ext 536
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