The closest is Gabe Devault's Xenos electric motorglider: Turned On—We Fly an Electric Xenos! - KITPLANES <https://www.kitplanes.com/turned-on-we-fly-an-electric-xenos/>
It's based on the Zero motorcycle drivetrain. -Luke On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:51 AM Mark Hanson via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Hi Folks > I live near Bob Barrows bearhawkaircraft.com plane “experimental” kits to > get around FAA requirements. He and his associate are building a single > seater electric version of his bearhawk kit. They’re using an Australian > APD control with a 3K rpm direct drive BLDC (pulsed 3 phase) magnet motor ( > so no brushes to fail). They bought the package from a consultant in > California and Mike was programming the controller with his laptop when I > visited. It runs fine at 200A 120Vdc on a Lithium China pack but at 300A > starts to overheat. So they’re adding a second controller for flight > redundancy and dual 3 phase windings in the motor in the next couple > months. > Does anyone work on electric planes or is there an off the shelf electric > drive (motor control) with a good reliable track record ? Just don’t want > to be reinventing the wheel here…. If you google Bob Barrows electric > plane YouTube videos pop up about the construction and issues they’ve run > into. He estimates about 1/2 hour of flight time. > Stay Charged > Mark > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230429/1a5b1ae3/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
