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The motor turns too much
is is part 4 of series "Kona EV Conversion": - Salvaging a Kona - Dismantling the Kona - Kona CAN Decoding - The motor turns (too much) (this post) - Unremarkable Kona Progress - Simplifying the Bench Kona (Posting this one a while after it happened, due to holidays.) This instalment is about the "Bench Kona" I've built in the shed. Behold its questionable integrity: You can see the motor and drive unit stack in the foreground, and the battery pack in the background under some junk.
The bench holds other modules taken from the engine bay and the interior of the car, plus large segments of the original wiring (now unwrapped, cut, spliced, and converted into a tangled mess). This theory is a bit surprising, because you'd think the VCU would have some failsafe where it also reads RPM from the motor controller (after all, what happens if a driveshaft breaks and the wheels aren't turning on the real car?) In that case, adapting something like the openinverter motor control board to the Kona's existing IGBT drivers may be the best way to give these parts a second life.
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