Recent content by IanFiTheDwarf

If you wanted to stick to your Land Cruiser axles you could look at a caravan motor mover. Designed to move a caravan by remote control at about walking pace (some are quicker than others, usually movers rated for heavier caravans are just geared up and run slower). Will run of a 12v car battery...

You could use a computer UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). you will have to find one that needs three 12v batteries and has an offline mode so that you can start it without having 240v AC. i use one on my solar battery bank. i had to google each model i found on ebay to find the manuals and...

I might have some old tig welding electrodes lying around which are down to the last few cm. I'll see if I can drill a piece of copper and hammer one in so only a couple of mm is left sticking out.

I have reserched and there are people getting good results with 50 to 300ms, some with a resistor to reduce power which I will have on mine. The timer I picked is a quick fix off the shelf solution. Ptobably not the best but im hopeing it does the job I havent got back to my axial motor yet but...

There were quite a few similar timers om ebay but only a couple went down to 0.1s, most had 1 second as the shortest time setting. The one I ordered is coming from china so could probably be sent anywhere. I will remove the relay from the board and connect to a ssr. I have a few 10A ssr's...

I have been planning on building a spot welder for a while and as I have a few drill batteries to repair I went ahead and bought a MOT to start my build. I was going to try and get hold of an old microwave bybut having worked on radar and knowing I didnt have a good safe place away from the kids...

Only of any use if you are building your own controller. If you have a lebowski controller brain board and want to make big power one of the hardest part is driving the FET's or IGBT's reliably and these boards take all the guess work out of it. They will drive up to 1200v 600A IGBT's so you...

Hi guys, ive just bought three of these igbt drivers on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232130910662 They normally go forvabout £50-80 each but I offered £50 for three and got them. I think he has loads if anyone wants some I know I am posting in the wrong section but I dont want anyone to...

Im not sure how much torque I was getting, I remember it being a bad idea to try and load it with my hand but that about it. I was planning on using 24v but I dont remember if I got to that but I defenately tried 12v first. I wouldn't wory about trying to find a 24v alternator. Theres a good...

I tried modding an alternator as you describe and had it running for a little while with an rc brushless speed controller. For the rotor field I just connected a car headlight lamp in series and connected directly to 12v it worked for a while until something went and I lost a phase on the...

I've been watching that thread. Some realy good work he has been doing there. taking everything out of a wrecked leaf or similar and sticking it in something a bit more interesting is the holy grail in my opinion. I'm just glad someone else is doing some of the hard work, its quite a daunting...

Hi guys, I have been looking at salvaged nissan leafs and was trying to work out what I could sell thebatteries for, I have looked on eBay a few times for leaf batteries for sale but haven't seen any yet. I have seen them for sale at...

Your best option is probably to use hydraulic motors mounted to your wheels with one electric motor driving the hydraulic pump. Hydraulic motors tick all the boxes for torque, size, weight and durability. Your vehicle is going to need motors that won't burn out if a wheel jams up on a stray...

I wasn't going to go as far as using the running gear, just motor, controller, battery, charger, and any other electrical/electronic components I can. But I did say all I suppose. CoPart wouldn't tell me the final sale price of this car but I found one on a US salvage site buy it now for...

I was just wondering what the feasibility would be of buying a scrap Nissan Leaf or similar and transferring everything over to another car. I saw this on copart http://www.copart.co.uk/uk/Lot/27253145?searchId=973243130 It's sitting at £2050 with less than two hours to go so might not go much...