{"id":146,"date":"2018-08-03T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-01-20T02:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T01:19:43","slug":"new-prototype-motor-voltage-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/new-prototype-motor-voltage-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"New prototype motor voltage strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a reminder, the point is that the solar panel gives ~ 22V, while the motors are rated 14.4V.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought a lot about it, and in my views, many strategies of \nreducing the voltage (like using a switching DC DC converter), will \ndefeat the MPPT tracking using the motor as a load, one of the important\n point I want to check with the prototype.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I thought even longer, and concluded: who gives a damn to the \nmotor voltage rating&nbsp;? They&#8217;re running in water (a dense medium), so at a\n much lower RPM than in the air, and with a very efficient water \ncooling.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I just ran them at 22V for two hours. Everything went perfectly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>As a reminder, the point is that the solar panel gives ~ 22V, while the motors are rated 14.4V. I thought a lot about it, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/new-prototype-motor-voltage-strategy\/\" title=\"New prototype motor voltage strategy\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almabraxas-3-prototype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tronche.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}