{"id":1401,"date":"2010-04-29T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/plug-bug-ac-vs-dc\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T18:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T01:19:36","slug":"plug-bug-ac-vs-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/plug-bug-ac-vs-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Plug Bug: AC vs DC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I initially was going to use a DC motor, but now I’m leaning towards AC. This website has a lot of great information on AC vs DC:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cameronsoftware.com\/ev\/EV_DriveType.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Those are all good points, but I’ll add some more I found:<\/p>\n

* Regenerative braking. I have quite a few hills by my house and I want this benefit.<\/p>\n

* Better motor<\/b> efficiency<\/p>\n

The Warp 9 (what I was considering using) has this performance graph:<\/p>\n

\n\"201004291803.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In general, never better than 80% efficient. Better efficiency is better range!<\/p>\n

Consider the AC-50<\/a> motor from Thunderstruck Motors. It has up to 94% efficiency<\/a> and it is in the higher RPM range (better for my transmission, which will produce higher RPMS).<\/p>\n

Also, another great read about AC motors<\/a> on the Metric Mind website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I initially was going to use a DC motor, but now I’m leaning towards AC. This website has a lot of great information on AC vs DC: http:\/\/www.cameronsoftware.com\/ev\/EV_DriveType.html Those are all good points, but I’ll… [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/201004291803.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}