Recent content by benthomsen

Thanks, its coming along well. Should be all together and running by Christmas! Sounds interesting, what is the purpose/target-user of the one you and your students are working on? My wheels/tires are a custom made specifically for my design. And its probably not going to be super easy to...

Hey Jason, awesome looking machine, checked out video too, nice work! Good to hear a good experience with Roboteq too, looking forward to seeing what these controllers can do. Will check out the temp sensors you mentioned also. Yeah I designed the ATIB, it's just sitting collecting dust now...

Thanks guys, I'll keep up the posts as things progress! Cool, thanks John I will have a look through the forums regarding temp sensor install too. I do see the airflow issue, also these motors will be bolted up between two large aluminium plates, so hopefully they act as some pretty decent...

Just thought I'd post a follow up, Crystalyte Motors and Roboteq Motor Controllers have arrived. I ended up going for the H4040s will run them at 48V with these dual channel controllers. May end up doing a phase wire upgrade also. Haven't had a decent inspection of the motors yet to check the...

Just waiting to hear back from Crystalyte regarding the Crown. I could possibly use the calculator on a single motor with 1/4 the weight, don't know how much its going to tell me though, but will play around with it. And yeah scrub radius is virtually nothing, could still be an issue with the...

Haha Ill see if NASA will give me some funding. Nah these aren't the full CAD model, there is plenty more detail in the full one. Just wanted to show the drives this way as its much easier to see, they weave in and around the chassis/suspension/steering pretty tightly. I will post images of...

Thanks for the post, seems a cool space to be in. I kind of want to be sitting somewhere in between, the lightest crossover from a bike to a four wheel buggy I can get. In this case I do still want to consider it a bike. As I haven't seen any other vehicles doing this type of thing. Super...

Yeah I am still looking for lightweight, I want this thing to sit on the mud rather than sink in, same on the water (although movement wont be very efficient) I can see how hub motors could be an issue here, although the water floating thing wont be part of my initial testing. However an...

Sweet thanks again guys! I did briefly look at wheelchair motors, however I just saw they were all mostly low power and torque so didn't really give them the time of day. I guess everything can be pushed though. I could see what Kenny thinks about this "slow wind" business, could be willing to...

Sweet, thanks for the feedback so far! As far as the wheel size goes (which is definitely not 28 foot, ill stick to my metrics), I was keeping the larger 710mm diameter and 500mm width to keep the volume up as they potentially will be able to keep the whole thing buoyant with no more than 200mm...

Hi all, I have been searching and browsing these forms for all sorts of info over the last 6 months or so gathering info for a design/build I am currently working on. Some awesome info and tips on here as well as some sweet builds. As for my project the title basically sums it up. I'm pretty...