Anyway, taking the rotor to Sacramento in the morning to drop off at my friend's house and he will get it into a machinist there on Monday to drill the four mounting holes. Should be ready a couple days after that. Meanwhile, I wind coils so I am ready when the machine can be put together. My buddies are still saying about six days to have all the wire cores ready to put in bobbins, and then probably two days to epoxy all the cores in place and let them dry for a bit. So we are still a couple weeks out.
I am trying to figure out how to loop this thing. I have two 120 to 28 volt transformers that are rated at 4 amps. My thought is to put two in series to handle the 270 volt output of a coil pair. I know that's more than what they are rated for, but I don't have to run it all day. Just long enough to self run while it is running loads. That would give me a 28 volt AC output that I can rectify to run the drive motor which requires around 26 volts DC to reach the correct RPM. Not sure about the amp requirement of the drive motor until I have it all together and all adjusted, but hoping for less than 7 amps. I also have a buck module that is rated at 70 volts DC that I could use to lower the voltage down to the 20's if I can get the coil output down below 70 somehow using transformers. I have two of those buck modules. I have several 210 to 120 transformers that support high amperage. Any suggestions?
If I can get it to self run and output to loads, I see no reason to waste another $700 to have inputs and outputs documented. other than to rub bi's nose in it, which is almost worth $700 to me.

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