I wonder if Damon Crockett at AllTrax, original designer— can help you. Peter Senkowski took over the Raptors later. Damon is a great guy and has a passion for on road. Nothing to lose…
Sincerely, Bob Bath 541.761.0838 Note: any misspellings of the contents of this message are due to 57 y.o. vision, hyperactive spell check changing what I typed, or fat fingering— not cluelessness. > On Jun 19, 2023, at 6:16 AM, Rick Beebe via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Hey all. I recently reconverted my Ford Ranger. It had an ADC 9" series > motor connected to the stock transmission, Raptor controller and 144v pack. > Now it has a Hyper 9 HV and controller, and a 160v pack. The Hyper 9 is > connected to a TorqueTrends single-speed gearbox. > > For the most part I'm very happy with everything, especially since my power > consumption has gone from about 2.7 to 3.6 miles/kWh but it feels to me like > I have a problem at the low end. In normal driving the truck accelerates like > my old '64 Beetle used to. That's okay but it's a real problem going up a > hill. My driveway is rather steep and the truck can only manage about 10mph > going up the hill. If I stop on the hill it won't move at all. Nor will it > back up the driveway. > > According to the torque charts from Netgain compared to the ones from ADC, > the motor should be plenty strong. I drove almost all the time in 2nd gear > which was 2:1 and the TorqueTrends is set to 1.9:1 so there's a little > penalty there. I am thinking about changing the rear end from 3.73:1 to > 4.11:1 which will help get the gearing back. > > But it feels to me like the issue is that the controller is SLOWLY ramping up > the current when I step on the accelerator. When I turn in the driveway I can > put the pedal to the floor and the battery amps don't climb above 100 until > I'm nearly at the top--about 6 seconds later. If I'm driving at 20mph and > stomp on it, the amps will zoom right up to 400 and the truck accelerates > nicely. > > Does anyone know of a setting in the controller that can tweak the current > ramp up speed? The current limit page shows 100% across the entire RPM range, > so it has to be somewhere else. The throttle page shows that I'm getting full > pedal travel. I'm not looking for burnouts but I'm dreading the day I have to > stop on a steep hill on a real street. Thanks for any help. > > --Rick > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230619/a58c95fa/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
