One consideration with a clutch is that you can easily overspeed the electric motor when downshifting if you miss a gear or aren’t paying attention. Relying on the synchros protects you somewhat in that case.
Bruce > On Feb 26, 2018, at 3:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On February 25, 2018 10:33:48 AM EST, John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> On Sat Feb 24 18:46:38 PST 2018 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> said: >>> FYI - Down-shifting can be done a lot faster than up-shifting with >> just >>> synchros, if you "goose" the throttle to bring the motor up to speed >>> with the transmission. >> >> Easy with a gas engine. >> Much harder with an Electric Motor and a Z2K controller. It's REALLY >> REALLY easy to wind the motor up to max RPM's almost instantly. > > I only have a 400amp Curtis, so maybe that makes it easier on me. > IIRC, the zilla has over speed protection as an option though? > > Jay -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20180226/8f3c95f6/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
