I am hoping others who have experience with AC EV designs will weigh in here. DC is all that was available back when I had my conversion made. I know I would want the advantages of Today's AC drive systems.
The evalbum.com listings have so many uses, one of which is they are searchable either via a search engine or from that website. I found several listings that used an AC system: http://www.evalbum.com/2440 2001 Volkswagen Passat http://www.evalbum.com/2315 1998 Volkswagen Golf http://www.evalbum.com/2507 1990 Mazda MX-5 AC http://www.evalbum.com/1396 1986 Pontiac Fiero GT http://www.evalbum.com/2507 1990 Mazda MX-5 AC http://www.evalbum.com/2441 1999 Dodge Neon ACR http://www.evalbum.com/3411 1969 MG MGB http://www.evalbum.com/3660 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 Electric http://www.evalbum.com/3576 1974 Porsche 914 http://www.evalbum.com/1541 2003 BMW 325i http://www.evalbum.com/1253 2001 GMC Sonoma http://www.evalbum.com/4759 2004 Scion xB http://www.evalbum.com/1149 1982 Suzuki Sierra SJ40 http://www.evalbum.com/3060 2001 Suzuki Swift There are more listings to look at using (this is all one long URL) http://www.google.com/custom?site=evalbum.com%2F&q=%22ac+motor%22&sitesearch=evalbum.com%2F&client=pub-0604986736580708&forid=1&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&safe=active&flav=0000&sig=Py9zWxKP0AnU10ms&cof=GALT%3A%230066CC%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23999999%3BVLC%3A336633%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BALC%3A0066CC%3BLC%3A0066CC%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A666666%3BGIMP%3A666666%3BLH%3A50%3BLW%3A330%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fevalbum.com%2Fui%2Fevalbum.jpg%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fevalbum.com%2F%3BFORID%3A1%3B You can look at these to know what system voltage, pack, motor and controller they used for what range, and performance. Several EV component AC sources come up when searching using https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=electric+vehicle+ac+motor+controller or https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=electric+car+ac+motor+controller As far as what you can get for your DC EV components ... A lot of patients when trying to sell them to get only some of your money back. That's is another reason (things change over time) for not buying your EV components until you actually ready to begin your conversion {brucedp.150m.com} On Sun, Aug 10, 2014, at 03:58 PM, ph...@bill-collins.net via EV wrote: > A few years ago I decided to convert my '98 VW Cabrio to electric. At > the time, > a Warp 9 motor and Zilla 1K controller seemed to make a lot of sense, and > are > probably one of the best combinations today for a DC conversion. > Since I've now put 90k miles on the car as an ICE (after buying it > cheaply > because the previous owner thought it needed an engine) and a few years > have > gone by, I'm wondering if a DC conversion still makes sense. > > I know Curtis makes an AC kit that's designed for similar applications as > the 9 > inch DC motors. Any opinions on it, or other AC options? > Any idea of the resale value of an unused Zilla 1K LV and Warp 9 motor? > > At least lithium batteries are a lot cheaper than when I first thought > about doing this! - -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Conversion-advice-tp4670917p4670919.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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)
