Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by NegativeLatency on Monday September 05, 2022 @12:45AM
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Replacing an ev motor sounds easier to me than an engine. Assuming you can get parts
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Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by aetherspawn on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:34AM
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But do you have the equipment to calibrate the resolver of this new motor by connecting to the inverter and writing the new resolver offset into its EEPROM? I thought not.
If you swapped out the motor on your EV like you suggested, it would start spewing out illegal levels of EM interference, screaming like a pig and randomly chopping out at high speed.
This is why self right to repair is a complex issue. Even for EVs which seem simple but are not. Every single component is so tightly coupled.
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by wffurr on Monday September 05, 2022 @07:39AM
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>> But do you have the equipment to calibrate the resolver of this new motor by connecting to the inverter and writing the new resolver offset into its EEPROM? I thought not.
Sounds like a simple Python script you could download from an enthusiast forum.
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by NegativeLatency on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:34PM
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Or a calibration mode where you roll the car down a small hill for a couple of revolutions.
Either way still sounds easier than replacing the engine on a new car where you have to do some software module stuff to get the engine talking to the cars computer.
Re:EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
by wffurr on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @07:49AM
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It seems about on par with performance tuning an ICE ECU which is done by hobbyists all the time with a laptop running any of a number of readily available software packages and an ODB2 dongle.