tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53752014498644611702024-02-19T02:52:02.481-08:00Studebaker chAMPOur product design firm bb7 has taken on the mission of modernizing and electrifying a 1960 Studebaker Champ.Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-71929393105715836632019-05-02T07:02:00.001-07:002019-05-02T07:02:37.558-07:00Spring is here and I'm hoping to rekindle truck work this year. The last couple of years have been all consuming with our startup BroodMinder.com.<br />
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chAMP will be coming out of storage this week and I will continue on the interior of the truck. I've been driving it for the last two years and am hoping to tighten up the steering which is still sort of worn out.Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-79563029736189339472015-09-28T04:36:00.000-07:002015-09-28T04:38:22.008-07:00Steering mostly better<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been a while since the last update. I finally have the steering under control. As a result of lowering the truck, the front shackles became a major liability. After beefing them up with some welded cross memebers (thank you Jeff Elsworth), I now don't feel terrified when driving over 45 miles per hour.<br />
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Nice note on Gizmodo about a <a href="http://gizmodo.com/110-year-old-electric-car-sells-for-95-000-1733315181" target="_blank">1905 Woods Electric vehicle</a>. Studebaker had them in 1902!Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-57640088269981380452015-08-16T05:21:00.001-07:002015-08-16T05:22:26.940-07:00A little progress, a little setbackIt was a pretty good week. The motor and electronics are working well, although there is a lot of jumping very slow speed. That turns out to be play in the rear end, so I'm going to have Denny's auto repair in Stoughton fix it after I get some parts.<br />
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Next I'm going to rebuild the steering box. I found a great video on line, actually for a model of Jeep that uses the same box. I will replace the bearings and the pawl (which follows the worm gear) and it should be good again. This guy, who has rebuilt several of them says that the worm gear is always OK. I hope he's right because that is a major part.<br />
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Next Thursday I'll take the truck to Madison Spring to get their ideas on fixing the front end. The extended shackles may be part of the handling problem, plus the front end bangs metal on metal when you hit a road imperfection. <br />
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Last Thursday I took the truck to bb7 to be photographed. It gave a number of folks there the chance to drive it some which made me happy. It's still not good over 40 mph, so their drives were limited. Unfortunately, somebody got overenthusiastic about opening the door and crunched the passenger side door near the top hinge... one more thing to fix.<br />
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However, it's sort of to be expected. Things are still rattling loose and I work to tighten them. It's still a big project, but at least it's on the road again and great fun to drive.<br />
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Finally, I took it to the Stoughton Coffee Break car show Saturday. A lot of smiles, a lot of curiosity. It was fun, but will be more fun when it's finished.Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-91666800948564790112015-08-10T06:20:00.002-07:002015-08-10T06:20:45.179-07:00Your mileage may varyI drove the truck 53 miles yesterday and just finished charging. Based on this the truck has the potential to go 140 miles between charges (57.6 kWh). Of course that's running the batteries dry (a bad idea) and averaging 40 mph or so. But it's a data point. Here is a graph of the drives I've recorded (except for the max point (140 miles) which is an estimate based on the other data.<br />
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Things are slowly getting better. I have new tires, that reduced road noise and vibration. I also removed the clutch and flywheel. <br />
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The flywheel was unbalanced and I was concerned that the motor bearing would go out. After a bit of research on the internet, and speaking to my brother and Rick Beebe, I decided that I could remove them. That still presented a problem of how to connect the motor to the transmission, but a little on-line hunting turned up the little item. It's about 4" across, compared to the 12" diameter clutch assembly on the right.<br />
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Now it runs smooth as silk and I shaved 40 or 50 pounds off too.<br />
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Otherwise, Rick Beebe stopped by. Rick was at EAA and has been watching the blog so he stopped because he was in the area. He gave me a lot of good suggestions and we had a nice ride around the circuit. (pre-clutch removal).<br />
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This morning I took my first 'utility' drive to Stoughton to have breakfast with Kreg Gruben. It's starting to get fun and I'm starting to trust it some.<br />
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On the agenda now is to take it to a local shop to look at the steering (still loose). Finish wiring the turn signals. Put in a new DC/DC converter. And lots of interior, windows, misc small stuff... oh yeah, and a parking brake.<br />
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<br />Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-24102634709286931332015-07-12T04:48:00.003-07:002015-07-12T04:48:25.386-07:00Details, detailsThe slog continues. Now that the truck is home, I can jump out and work on it easier. This week I have been shoring up some of the essentials... like brakes and clutch.<br />
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During the drive home, I discovered that the brakes were not nearly strong enough. They looked good while the truck was on jacks, only having to stop the wheel. However, they did not do a good job stopping the truck! Additionally, the clutch pedal broke off (!!) about the time we hit Stoughton. Of course you don't 'need' a clutch pedal, but it sure does help.<br />
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I drove the truck to Ellsworth Welding in town and Jeff Ellsworth (who loved the truck) figured it had to be removed to weld. So, I removed it the next day. It was a bit of a puzzle, but came off easily after I figured that one out.<br />
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He did a great job of welding, and as a bonus, he reshaped the metal so that the pedals sit much better. They had bent out of shape after all the years of use.<br />
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The other major accomplishment was fixing a software 'bug'. I was having trouble with the truck 'starting'. Sometimes when I turned the key, everything was AOK, and sometimes it would only run the motor for a second before shutting down.</div>
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After several e-mails with Jack, I finally found the dopey mistake that I made. You have to tell the controller box which outputs are hooked to where. In my case I have outputs running to the two contactors, the main contactor and the pre-charge contactor. I had them assigned to Outputs 3 & 4, but the wires were hooked to 4 & 5. When it worked, it was just lucky that the output 3 came up in a state that happened to run the truck. It shouldn't have worked at all. So, when I fixed that, everything now comes up and runs very reliably.</div>
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Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-89778228383827601172015-07-04T16:12:00.000-07:002015-07-12T04:05:07.996-07:00On the road again!!!!<span style="font-size: large;">The good old Studebaker truck is once again on the road!! </span><br />
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On Thursday I drove it home from bb7, 18 miles. It was the best birthday present I could have. There are three videos below. Depending on your level of patience, you can watch the short (0:11), medium (10:00), or long version (17:00).<br />
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It was a great day, tremendous fun. I want to thank the team at bb7 for all of their help. When the truck is truly road worthy, I'll take it back for all to have a go at driving and enjoying it.<br />
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This week I have been balancing the batteries and hooking them up. Jesse began the balancing process by discharging each of the batteries (100 of them) to about 2.75 volts. This took a long time, but by doing four at a time, it only took a week.<br />
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This week I took each cell from 2.75 volts to 2.650 volts. This only took a minute or two per cell, but it still added up.'<br />
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Once they were balanced, I strapped them all together and put on the beautiful covers that Greg made. It took a little whittling to make them fit, but they look great now.<br />
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Today I will go back and make certain all of the connections are correct before turning the two red switches that you see to the left. They are the master cutouts. Once they are turned on, things will either work... or go up in smoke.<br />
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We will trying spinning the wheels on Friday at our lunch meeting!<br />
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Finally, here are the calculations that Mike did for the bed lift. I was really impressed how the calculations matched performance. Great job Mike! I'd be happy to post the spreadsheet if anybody wants it.<br />
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Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-5061352136551608732015-06-11T06:51:00.000-07:002015-06-11T06:51:02.138-07:00Lift that bed, tote that bailWe've been a bit delayed, but I'm planning on low voltage wiring next week. In the mean time, the boys got the bed lift complete. It's wonderful. Watch...<br />
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CheersRichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-84615371493012404142015-05-31T17:57:00.001-07:002015-05-31T18:05:40.217-07:00ElectrifiedIt's been a pretty good week. It's pretty obvious that I won't be on the road in May. How about June?<br />
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I don't have a picture, but the front motor mount is installed. It was designed by Rob, machined by Larry, and installed by Greg. I'll try to get a picture next week. It's pretty!<br />
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In the photo below you can see that the cooling system is connected. It's the bottle and gold thing to the right of the batteries. Peter got it all hooked up and filled on Friday.<br />
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The other big accomplishment was to finish the high voltage wiring. The box in the middle of the picture contains two safety switches to disconnect all of the high voltage and two relays which do the same except by computer control. High voltage goes to the motor controller, the DC/DC converter, the two battery chargers, and the other battery boxes.</div>
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Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. I'm grateful that mine (Sara) is alive and well and fixing me breakfast this morning. I know that's not the way it's supposed to be, but she insists and I want her to have what she desires most.<br />
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Here we are in '63. I wish I had that car! Although she's a nurse, Mom has always been very good at feeding my engineering and science side. We have done a lot of projects together.<br />
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Ben, Dave, Mark, and Jon finished lowering the back end 3 inches. You can see that they made some blocks and plates and got some long u-bolts. Another matter that they solved at the same time was to move the rear end 1/2 inch towards the drive's side so that the drive shaft doesn't hit the battery box. (it was uncentered before)<br />
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Duane got the steering linkage done and Mark painted the steering column. Mark has also been working on the contactor box and it's looking good.<br />
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Next week the bed should be going back on along with the tilt mechanism and we'll start wiring.<br />
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Ruth and I had a nice meeting with Matt Meiller on Friday. He runs a company in Milwaukee area called Peak Gain that specializes in antenna and RF design. They seem pretty pumped to help us get the truck talking to the cloud and reporting to the wide wide world.<br />
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The last two pictures show all of the batteries save two in place. We had one bad battery and room for one extra, so that will make 101 total. You can also see Peter's handy work. Just on the other side of the batteries is the pump/reservoir assembly for the cooling system.<br />
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<br />Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-74433545163285065262015-05-05T18:29:00.001-07:002015-05-05T18:37:28.929-07:00Gaining InertiaThings are progressing nicely, but first, some interesting news. We are in discussions with the good folks at <b>Renesas </b>with regards to some fun and nerd-alicious aspects of the Electric Studebaker. Renesas is a huge microprocessor manufacturer (huge company, not huge micros). I attended a great meeting with them today and met a bunch of nice folks. Why not keep going to the extreme eh? Let's put her on the IoT (Internet of Things). Updates to follow.<br />
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In the mean time, back at the ranch, things are pulling together. We have our work cut out for us, but it all seems achievable in the next 25 days. (On the road in May!).<br />
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Jason has started a list. As soon as everything is X'd out, I guess we're ready to go.<br />
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Jesse has been doing an extraordinary job on the truck during the last few weeks. He has rebuilt the differential and painted the frame and differential (note the orange!). Then with the help of Greg, the battery boxes are now installed and ready to take batteries.<br />
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Here are the front (left) and rear (above) battery boxes. Additionally, Greg has finalized the mounting of the motor controller. It's the box just left of the batteries in this picture.<br />
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Now Peter is in process of plumbing the cooling system<br />
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Another big job that Jesse has tackled is to bottom balance the batteries. <br />
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He is hooking each battery to a power resistor (the gold thing on the right side of the table) and dumping the power into it. They get very hot, hence the fan. The idea is to drain all of the batteries to the same exact point. That way when they are charged, they all get an equivalent charge.<br />
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This is a tricky (and somewhat controversial) element of EVs. We are ascribing to the EVTV method which they have had very good luck with (and no fires). <a href="http://media3.ev-tv.me/cellcare.pdf" target="_blank">Here </a>is a very good article for those interested.<br />
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And, to end the post, Jason and Rob have been working on several aspects also. They found a new seat. Surprisingly, there were two (!!) Champ pickup trucks at the junkyard where they found the seat (both very bad shape, one with a tree growing through it). <br />
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I'm pushing them to finish and they are cranking hard. We're going to be on the road in May boys, new seat or not.<br />
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On the other hand, there is a good chance the old girl will be going to California in October, so she'd better look like a movie star!<br />
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CheersRichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-52438530320489951422015-04-25T13:08:00.000-07:002015-04-25T13:14:02.109-07:00Looking GoodThings are starting to look good! There are a lot of parts strewn about, but the truck will start some major assembly this next week. <br />
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<li>Rob and Jason cleaned up the mess. Thank you thank you thank you. This is small potatoes, but sure makes me feel better working in an organized workspace.</li>
<li>Greg put holes in the battery boxes and frames for the high voltage cables to pass though. This was more work than one would think due to the steel and the frame.</li>
<li>The battery boxes are powder coated. The front battery box is mounted.</li>
<li>Jesse with Jason's help cleaned and rebuilt the differential.</li>
<li>Ted and Mark sandblasted and painted the propeller (drive) shaft and installed it.</li>
<li>Rob and Jason painted the engine compartment and cab interior. it is now grey and much more attractive.</li>
<li>I received and installed the Juice Box charging station</li>
<li>Rob painted the part of the steering column that sticks into the engine compartment (orange).</li>
<li>Jesse, and the team as a whole installed the battery boxes and batteries and truck bed so that we could figure out the stance of the truck. We will raise the front end 1" (after being lower about 6") and lower the back end 3". DaveB and Ben will figure out how to do that.</li>
<li>Andrew and Greg figured out how to and did mount the radio.</li>
<li>Peter ordered some tygon tubing for the cooling system. It will look great filled with orange coolant.</li>
<li>Mark has started building a clear contactor box.</li>
<li>Just today, Jesse painted the new parts of the frame which support the battery boxes.</li>
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<li>Paint the differential orange</li>
<li>Install steering column</li>
<li>Install the front engine mount</li>
<li>Lower the back end 3"</li>
<li>Final installation of rear three battery boxes</li>
<li>Install bed lift and lock system</li>
<li>Bottom balance the batteries</li>
<li>Finish the build and wire the contactor box</li>
<li>Wire the batteries</li>
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<li>Graphics</li>
<li>Grill</li>
<li>Tail lights</li>
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Wow... it's a pretty big list. Five weeks... I think we can get there!<br />
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This has been a week to work on battery boxes. Battery boxes are probably the biggest hassle of a retrofit EV. You have to put all those batteries somewhere, and they are heavy. Cardboard boxes just won't do.<br />
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We found a great fabricator who got three of the boxes made up. Friday we got them installed. Jesse did a great job on welding some of the support members. Ben was a man with a mission today. Welding nuts and plasma cutting the frame to make it all fit.<br />
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To the right is Ben welding his nuts to his boxes.<br />
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The rear box was abotu 1/2 inch too wide so that meant some plasma cutting and grinding. We had lots of sparks flying.<br />
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This is a mock-up of the cut-out switches. There are two manual ones and two which are connected to ignition and charging.<br />
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Next week we will be painting and finish welding. The front battery box will be fabricated and hopefully wiring will begin.<br />
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Still working to make it to the highway in May!Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-85379243174746762642015-03-28T14:32:00.000-07:002015-03-28T14:41:21.202-07:00Lowered and Motored<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few good things happened this week.<br />
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<li>Motor/transmission marriage</li>
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<li>Color plan established</li>
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After Duane and Peter coated the adapter plate with Alodine to prevent corrosion, the motor could finally be married to the transmission.<br />
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To the upper right you can see (from bottom to top) the motor, adapter plate, and the flywheel/clutch assembly. The tricky part was to make sure that the motor shaft and transmission shafts are close to touching, but not quite.<br />
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Turns out that Jon had it figured right! Perfecto.<br />
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Jon & John wrestled it all together. Here it is, ready for installation.<br />
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Ben and David wrapped up the lowering of the front end. It was an amazing transformation when we set it on the ground. It looks tuff man! (that's 70's tuff).<br />
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Jason and Rob are coming to consensus on color. White with orange details (roof, transmission, graphics). Interior of the engine compartment, cab, and bed will be gray.<br />
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This next week should see the fitting of the battery boxes and welding in of new cross members. Rob and Jason are also committed to getting the gray painted.<br />
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I will also be ordering the final bits of HV stuff. Once the boxes are in, we can try running this baby!<br />
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I had a treat last Saturday that I must share. I experienced, for the first time, the <a href="http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/36003" target="_blank">acclaimed largest urinal in the midwest.</a> It was almost life altering. I highly recommend it to others.<br />
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John Smith has the battery chargers mounted under the cab.<br />
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Starting from the wall. I plan to use an <a href="http://www.emotorwerks.com/products/online-store/product/show/201-juicebox-pro-plus-40" target="_blank">Electric Motor Works Juice Box Pro Plus 40</a> (quite a mouthful). From there, the connection will be via the former gas filling spigot via a J1772 plug. I will use a little <a href="http://modularevpower.com/Images/avc1/AVC2%20instructions%201_2.pdf" target="_blank">AVC2 </a>controller because it has the little bits of circuit to enable the J1772 circuits. And finally from there to the dual <a href="http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=Learcharger" target="_blank">Lear Chargers</a>.</div>
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And here is the part that Larry made. Click to zoom, it's a beautiful picture taken by Bryon.<br />
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There are some other pieces that Mark made to attach the flywheel to the motor. Then Jon took that assembly to a specialty shop to be balanced. It wouldn't do to have this thing vibrate apart.<br />
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Greg has done a great job modeling up various ideas. The drawings below sum up where we are. The process will involve removing some key frame members and replacing them with new assemblies (so the wheels won't fall off).<br />
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Ben and Dave started lowering the front end on Friday. They will take the leaf spring that sits on top of the front axle and put it under the front axle. It's a pretty easy process except for the fact that the bolts have been tightly in place for 55 years. Dave was really working up a sweat.<br />
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Mark & Greg have worked hard to figure out where to put 100 batteries. As in all ventures, there are some easy answers... except for...<br />
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So, there will be 4 battery boxes. 18 in the engine compartment, 26 in each of the two mid boxes under the bed, and 30 in the rear battery box. That gives a total of 100! Just right.<br />
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This morning I loaded up the frame with all of the batteries to see how much it would drop under load. 1.25" was all that 1200+ pounds of batteries could do the good old truck.<br />
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In other news, we discussed aesthetics of the truck. We have quite a few car nuts in our ranks. In particular, John, Rob, and Jason are thinking about how this will end up looking. We talked about wheels, chrome, lights, colors, interior. They are doing renderings now so I should be able to post some of that next week. In the mean time, here is the rendering that we are getting the most positive feedback from. The truck will likely look similar to this.<br />
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This week I hope that we will start cutting metal on the adapter plate and I hope that by next week I will have some video to share.<br />
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One last thing... I just got an e-mail from Andrew. He's working on the audio and he found this retro radio. What a great find!<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Main Features:</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- Made-For-iPod/iPhone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- Built-in Bluetooth connectivity</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- 32,000 color display</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- Authentic push-button styling</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- AM/FM RDS tuner with 30 pre-sets</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- Two rear-mounted USB ports for iPod/iPhone or USB flash drive</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- Two auxiliary inputs for portable devices</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- 25 watts x 4 channel RMS power amplifier</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">- Dual RCA pre-outs plus subwoofer output for external amplifiers</span>Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-72803708630934423242015-02-15T06:17:00.001-08:002015-02-15T08:51:36.105-08:00OrganizingThere hasn't been much physical change to the truck this week. The rear sliding windows were installed and a new prop rod for the hood. <br />
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This has been a week of organizing. We now have teams to attack the many sub-systems that must be put into place.<br />
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<li><b>Drive train</b> - Jon Mick, Peter Davis, Duane Kaufman</li>
<li><b>Tilt bed</b> - Mike Andrew, Steve Dieter</li>
<li><b>Battery boxes</b> - Mark Begin</li>
<li><b>Suspension & brakes</b> - Ben Paprocki, Dave Bauer</li>
<li><b>Steering</b> - Duane Kaufman</li>
<li><b>Cooling system</b> - Peter Davis, John Smith</li>
<li><b>Schematics & electrical design</b> - Roger Watkins, Jesse Ransom</li>
<li><b>Software</b> - Rich Morris, Feng Tian</li>
<li><b>Aesthetics & branding</b> - John Miller, Jason Henry, Rob Podell, Brian Neeley, Sara Hilt</li>
<li><b>Vinyl wrap</b> - Duane Erickson, Jason Henry, Rob Podell</li>
<li><b>Documentation & white paper</b> - Steve Cantley, John Brassil, Feng Tian</li>
<li><b>Photography</b> - Bryon Sande</li>
<li><b>Video </b>- Rob Podell, Sara Hilt</li>
<li><b>Interior</b> - Matt Blue, Jason Henry, Sara Hilt</li>
<li><b>Sound system </b>- Andrew Hawkins</li>
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That's a lot of stuff to get done by May.</div>
Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-91661831069122072112015-02-04T17:55:00.003-08:002015-02-20T17:34:02.513-08:00Body Done - Let's start electrifying<br />
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While on vacation, the crew transferred the truck to the shop at bb7. <br />
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It's great having it on hand and folks are starting to figure out how to implement the changes.Richhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375201449864461170.post-26326522502790965192015-01-18T16:56:00.000-08:002015-01-18T17:01:10.348-08:00NumbersHere are some relevant numbers<br />
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<b><u>1960 Studebaker Champ</u></b><br />
Model: 5E12<br />
ICE: 259 cu in V8, 180 HP @ 4500 RPM, 260 ft lbs @ 2800 RPM<br />
Wheelbase: 122"<br />
Clutch: Borg & Beck 1448<br />
Clutch Torque: 290 ft lbs (40 kg m)<br />
Pressure Plate: 1929 lbs (875 kg)<br />
Propeller shaft wall: 0.065"<br />
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Axle: Spicer 60, 5000 lb ground rating, 4.27 gear ratio<br />
Hypoid floating banjo<br />
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Front springs: 9 leaves, 950 lb normal load, 275 lbs/inch<br />
Rear springs: 14 leaves, 2100 lb normal load, 420 lbs/inch<br />
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Steering: Gear = Ross Axle = Clark<br />
Turning radius: 24'8"<br />
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Transmission: Warner T98 (6.4, 3.09, 1.69, 1.0)<br />
Torque capacity: 260 ft lbs<br />
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Tires: 7.00 x 16<br />
Wheels: Kelsey Hayes - 8 studs, 16x6L standard<br />
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RPM = (MPH * Gear Ratio * 336) / Tire Diameter<br />
RPM @ 65 MPH = 3216 = (65 * 4.27 * 1.0 * 336) / 29<br />
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Max Torque: 0 - 3000 RPM <br />
Peak Torque: 221 ft lbs (300 NM)<br />
Avg Torque: 110 ft lbs<br />
Peak HP: 134 HP<br />
Avg HP: 80 HP<br />
Peak Power: 100 kW<br />
Avg Power: 60 kW<br />
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Motor<br />
Length: 10.9"<br />
Diameter: 11.25"<br />
Weight: 110 lb<br />
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Controller<br />
Length: 16.5"<br />
Width: 15.5"<br />
Height: 7.1"<br />
Weight: 61 lb<br />
Normal Voltage: 300-370 VDC<br />
Operating Voltage: 270-425 VDC<br />
Min Voltage: 230 VDC<br />
Max Input Current: 400 Amps<br />
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Batteries, n = 100<br />
Model: CALB CA180FI<br />
Type: LiFePo4, Lithium Iron Phosphate<br />
Voltage: 3.2 VDC<br />
Power: 576 Watt Hours<br />
Weight: 12.4 lbs<br />
Total Power: 57,600 Watt Hours<br />
Total Weght: 1,240 lbsRichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05573065353589784137noreply@blogger.com0