Re: (ET) Motor control for lift

[David C Robie <mycroftxx1 juno com>]

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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