You are now WAY beyond my pay grade here. I can only say that IMO any time you have a computer controlling something that acts like a throttle, you want to put a LOT of time into debugging the code, have multiple ways to detect failures, and have multiple ways to shut things down in case something unexpected happens despite all the fail-safes.
I don't know of any off-the-shelf solution for what you want to do, though I know that similar things have been done. All the homebrew hybrids I've read about so far (I've surely missed some) were essentially 100% manually controlled. However, I think I mentioned before an Escort wagon hybrid conversion done by a team of university students for a Ford / DOE competition, the "Hybrid Electric Vehicle Challenge." This would have been in the early to mid 1990s. It was one of a couple dozen university projects in the competition, but this one stood out because of its sophistication. The students had put quite a lot of effort into making it a "push the pedals and steer" car. The onboard micro looked at battery SOC and driving conditions, and decided whether and when to start the ICE, and how to balance ICE and motor torque - pretty much what the Volt and Prius Plugin do, but about 15-20 years before. Sorry to say I don't recall who was behind it, and web searches haven't helped much. But anyway, the point is that it CAN be done. I'm kind of shooting in the dark here, but you might try contacting Victor Tikhonov at Metric Mind, and see if he thinks a Brusa drive might be able to do what you want. Victor is the US distributor for Brusa inverters and AC induction motors. Brusa inverters speak CANBUS; maybe that would help you develop the interface you want. One warning, Brusa is a Swiss company and their prices tend to be reminiscent of Swiss watches'. http://www.metricmind.com/about-us/ David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
