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About the quietness the inverter is running at 7khz and surprisingly there is no 7khz noise coming from the motor. I was very surprised. However when I lift the wheels and run it there is a lot more noise from the diff gears than I was expecting. I have to wait and see how noisy it is once it is driving.
At the moment I am only running it off 48v so it can't go very fast.
At the moment I am only running it off 48v so it can't go very fast.
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I have been working on the BMS today. I got 4 modules I have been using for testing to make sure there are no mistakes in the boards. I was assembling and calibrating the modules in sets of 5.
Here are some pictures of the boards in a subpanel. I used different colours for the connectors because it is too easy to plug it in the wrong plug. The first time I made that mistake the com's wire burst into flames. The transmit has an optocoupler but the receive is connected to gnd. If I plug two receives together it shorts the battery thru the thin com's cable. With the different colours I just need to plug into sockets of the same colour and all is fine.
Here is a picture of the test pack. While I was doing the assembly I decided to balance the battery I have been using for testing. The cells were 88mv out of balance. I set the cutoff to 15mv difference. It took 4 and a half hrs to balance the 189Ah cells for a 55mv change. The energy recovery system seems to work well. The low cells charged up and the high cells discharged. The average battery voltage only went down by 10mv.
Here are some pictures of the boards in a subpanel. I used different colours for the connectors because it is too easy to plug it in the wrong plug. The first time I made that mistake the com's wire burst into flames. The transmit has an optocoupler but the receive is connected to gnd. If I plug two receives together it shorts the battery thru the thin com's cable. With the different colours I just need to plug into sockets of the same colour and all is fine.
Here is a picture of the test pack. While I was doing the assembly I decided to balance the battery I have been using for testing. The cells were 88mv out of balance. I set the cutoff to 15mv difference. It took 4 and a half hrs to balance the 189Ah cells for a 55mv change. The energy recovery system seems to work well. The low cells charged up and the high cells discharged. The average battery voltage only went down by 10mv.
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What voltage is considered 100% capacity? In other words, at what voltage does the cell voltage rise rapidly yet only a small current going into the cell. LFP and LYP cells will voltage balance quickly below fully charged but that has nothing to do with the state of charge being balanced. The only points that balancing really counts is fully discharged or fully charged, and you can't have both, it's one or the other.
Top balancing for house batteries and bottom balancing for EV batteries seems to be the way to go, you never completely discharge a house battery intentionally, yet it is the norm for an EV.
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Top balancing for house batteries and bottom balancing for EV batteries seems to be the way to go, you never completely discharge a house battery intentionally, yet it is the norm for an EV.
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4.2v is supposed to be full.
The bypass circuit dumps the energy at the pack's terminal. So I can balance at any time.
The way the balancing works is the master works out the average voltage of all the cells and it sets the target voltage to that value. Then if the difference between the max cell voltage and min cell voltage exceeds a certain value it issues the bypass command to all nodes.
If the cell voltage is higher than the previously set target voltage the node will bypass the cell. The energy goes to the pack which acts as a charger. So all the cells that are not being bypassed will start to charge (and increase in voltage) the ones that are being bypass will decrease in voltage.
So the balancing is always active regardless of the cell voltage or wether the pack is charging or discharging. The end result during charging is the cells with lower voltage will have slightly more charge current and the ones with higher voltage will have less charge current.
During discharge the cells with higher voltage will supply more current and the ones with lower voltage will supply less current.
So ultimately the stronger cells will supply/absorb more energy than the weaker cells so all the cells will reach top and bottom at the same time.
The bypass circuit dumps the energy at the pack's terminal. So I can balance at any time.
The way the balancing works is the master works out the average voltage of all the cells and it sets the target voltage to that value. Then if the difference between the max cell voltage and min cell voltage exceeds a certain value it issues the bypass command to all nodes.
If the cell voltage is higher than the previously set target voltage the node will bypass the cell. The energy goes to the pack which acts as a charger. So all the cells that are not being bypassed will start to charge (and increase in voltage) the ones that are being bypass will decrease in voltage.
So the balancing is always active regardless of the cell voltage or wether the pack is charging or discharging. The end result during charging is the cells with lower voltage will have slightly more charge current and the ones with higher voltage will have less charge current.
During discharge the cells with higher voltage will supply more current and the ones with lower voltage will supply less current.
So ultimately the stronger cells will supply/absorb more energy than the weaker cells so all the cells will reach top and bottom at the same time.
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Interestingly, these NMC cells don't behave the same as the LFP that we're used to using. Within reason, you can actually use the voltage to figure out the state of charge. Here is the table from the spec sheet: The difference between 5% and 15% is 0.07V or so.T1 Terry wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 11:04 What voltage is considered 100% capacity? In other words, at what voltage does the cell voltage rise rapidly yet only a small current going into the cell. LFP and LYP cells will voltage balance quickly below fully charged but that has nothing to do with the state of charge being balanced. The only points that balancing really counts is fully discharged or fully charged, and you can't have both, it's one or the other.
The difference between 90% and 100% is 0.1V or so.
So at a higher state of charge the voltage does move more rapidly, but nothing like LFP.
This means that the cells can be balanced over a very large voltage range. Which is great! Because holding at a high state of charge is somewhat detrimental to cell life. We can balance at pretty much any state of charge, and can do it while we're charging, discharging or resting. High bypass currents are not required, we can use low currents over long times.
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I tried to find a similar chart for my ex imiev cells and couldn't really find anything with actual values. Lots of small graphs that if you squinted you could get a voltage vs soc. I got a couple of hard numbers but nothing for the whole range of charge levels.
I ended up getting my own from readings from my outlander.
100% 4.1v
90% 4.05v
80% 4.01v
70% 3.96v
60% 3.93v
50% 3.9v
40% 3.86v
30% 3.83v
These figures were taken after driving without letting the pack rest so they're not exact.
Interestingly the manual states 3.75v is 30% and from the graphs I've seen I get
20% 3.5v
10% 3.25v
0% 3.0v
Dead flat danger zone% 2.75v
You just destroyed 1000's of $$% 2.5v
So the official Yuasa numbers match with your chart but my numbers from the outlander seem too high even with an unrested pack. I wonder if 30% (the minimum soc you can go in an outlander) is not 30% soc but 30% of allowable usage.
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Thank you for pointing that out, I hadn't realised the NMC cells had a sort of linear voltage that could represent the SOC. That would mean the 3.818v that the Pajero pack balanced at was actually some where between 65% and 70% SOC?4Springs wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 16:12Interestingly, these NMC cells don't behave the same as the LFP that we're used to using. Within reason, you can actually use the voltage to figure out the state of charge. Here is the table from the spec sheet:T1 Terry wrote: ↑Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 11:04 What voltage is considered 100% capacity? In other words, at what voltage does the cell voltage rise rapidly yet only a small current going into the cell. LFP and LYP cells will voltage balance quickly below fully charged but that has nothing to do with the state of charge being balanced. The only points that balancing really counts is fully discharged or fully charged, and you can't have both, it's one or the other.
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The difference between 5% and 15% is 0.07V or so.
The difference between 90% and 100% is 0.1V or so.
So at a higher state of charge the voltage does move more rapidly, but nothing like LFP.
This means that the cells can be balanced over a very large voltage range. Which is great! Because holding at a high state of charge is somewhat detrimental to cell life. We can balance at pretty much any state of charge, and can do it while we're charging, discharging or resting. High bypass currents are not required, we can use low currents over long times.
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That is correct. The batteries were not fully charged. The way the BMS is setup it will keep the cells balanced at any voltage no matter if the pack is charging or discharging. Because the bypass energy is recovered I can balance at any time without losing range if anything I will gain range because I can get the maximum energy capacity of each cell even if the cells are not all exactly the same capacity. Remember that the same capacity cells are only within 3 to 4% of each other. So if I used the conventional method of top or bottom balancing and one cell was 3% lower than the rest then I would get 3% less than the true potential of the pack.
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I have been thinking about the power steering and I didn't want to have a pump running all the time. After talking to a friend he suggested I use an electric power steering module instead. He had one that he used for testing before. It came out of a Toyota Corolla.
Peak current when hitting the end of travel is 25A.
Current when turning the steering wheel fast is about 20A.
It is a bit more involved than an electric pump but it is a much neater and efficient solution and it fits under the dash leaving more space for the frunk.
The current draw when sitting idle is about 100mA.Peak current when hitting the end of travel is 25A.
Current when turning the steering wheel fast is about 20A.
It is a bit more involved than an electric pump but it is a much neater and efficient solution and it fits under the dash leaving more space for the frunk.
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Power steering columns are a much neater and efficient idea.
What are the engineering repercussions of modifying the steering? Just a looky loo and a "yeah she's chipper", or something more involved?
What are the engineering repercussions of modifying the steering? Just a looky loo and a "yeah she's chipper", or something more involved?
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could you pretend the power steering is original and hope no one notices?
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I am not going to say anything and see what happens.
The shaft on the power steering module is straight thru. If the module fails the car will still steer.
The shaft on the power steering module is straight thru. If the module fails the car will still steer.
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What year/model Corolla is that out of?
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I need to ask my friend but I think it was a 2010.
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I have been doing some further testing on the power stage of the inverter. So far I have been running only one transistor pack so current is limited to 400A. I have been testing at 280A RMS which is about 400A on the peak of the sine wave.
I am quite happy with the performance of the gate drive and bus bars.
Here are some pictures of the waveforms.
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Yellow bus voltage. The next picture shows gate signals.
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Yellow voltage across gate of high side transistor
Blue voltage on output of half bridge.
Green digital input to gate drive circuit for high side transistor.
Purple digital input to gate drive circuit for low side transistor.
All the ringing is noise picked up by the probes. it is not really there. The next picture shows something worrying that turned out not to be unavoidable.
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Yellow output of half bridge.
Blue bus voltage.
Green high side transistor input to gate drive.
Purple low side transistor input to gate drive. You can see the bus voltage drops to almost 1/3 for 232ns. This had me worried because it means there is a significant amount of current being drawn from the bus.
I though both transistors were turning on at the same time. But the gate signals were off already so all measurements of the gate signals say that the transistor should be well off by this time. All gate signals were perfect and all swithching was within spec. The dead time was more than enough. Something interesting was that the pulse got wider as the current increased.
It turns out there is nothing wrong and there is an unavoidable reason for the behavior.
Points for anyone who can explain it.
Will post the answer in a few days.
I am quite happy with the performance of the gate drive and bus bars.
Here are some pictures of the waveforms.
Timebase 40us/div
Yellow bus voltage. The next picture shows gate signals.
Timebase 2us/div
Yellow voltage across gate of high side transistor
Blue voltage on output of half bridge.
Green digital input to gate drive circuit for high side transistor.
Purple digital input to gate drive circuit for low side transistor.
All the ringing is noise picked up by the probes. it is not really there. The next picture shows something worrying that turned out not to be unavoidable.
Timebase 0.4us/div
Yellow output of half bridge.
Blue bus voltage.
Green high side transistor input to gate drive.
Purple low side transistor input to gate drive. You can see the bus voltage drops to almost 1/3 for 232ns. This had me worried because it means there is a significant amount of current being drawn from the bus.
I though both transistors were turning on at the same time. But the gate signals were off already so all measurements of the gate signals say that the transistor should be well off by this time. All gate signals were perfect and all swithching was within spec. The dead time was more than enough. Something interesting was that the pulse got wider as the current increased.
It turns out there is nothing wrong and there is an unavoidable reason for the behavior.
Points for anyone who can explain it.
Will post the answer in a few days.
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OK, I'll have a go. I'll consider the case where the output current is positive (conventional current is flowing away from the IGBT pair towards the motor). At this point, the lower transistor had been conducting, but stopped conducting (earlier in time, so to the left of the DSO image). There is always inductance when driving a motor, so something has to keep the current flowing. At this time, it's the lower transistor's free-wheel diode. It's conducting because the inductor suddenly made the output a little negative (it was a volt or two positive with respect to bus negative when the transistor was conducting, now it's negative a volt or so to keep the output current flowing).francisco.shi wrote: ↑Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 21:20 It turns out there is nothing wrong and there is an unavoidable reason for the behavior.
Points for anyone who can explain it.
When the upper transistor starts conducting, it has to wrestle the current away from the lower transistor's free-wheel diode. It takes a while for hundreds of amps worth of carriers in that diode to sweep out of the junction and cause the diode to turn off. While this is happening, there is a high current path across the bus, through the upper transistor just starting to conduct, and the lower transistor's free-wheel diode, just starting to ramp down its current. So the bus has to provide the load current, plus this high current path. This continue for the hundreds of nanoseconds it takes to turn the diode off. That's one of the reasons that you need a very stout snubber capacitor across the bus, physically as close as possible to the transistor pair, and it needs fat, low inductance leads. The capacitor has to be specially built for low impedance and high current spikes. Often they are designed to bolt onto the IGBT module terminals.
I'm sure I've gotten some of the details wrong, but I suspect that this is the broad outline.
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I guess you did pay attention in class. The answer is spot on.
I was a bit worried when I first saw this because I thought two transistors were turning on at the same time. The bus structure and bus capacitor are extremely low impedance so there are a few thousand amps flowing to cause that big a drop. Consider the 400A ripple on the first picture is only 5 or 10v and the spike is 60v. The spike width is not long enough to trip the desat protection.
Overall I am quite happy with the response from the bus structure.
I would be confident of running this up to 600v with 700v devices.
I am planning to run up to about 500v bus.
I need to contact tritium to find out what is the maximum voltage the 50kw DC chargers can do. I dont want to end up finding out too late that I can't use them.
I was a bit worried when I first saw this because I thought two transistors were turning on at the same time. The bus structure and bus capacitor are extremely low impedance so there are a few thousand amps flowing to cause that big a drop. Consider the 400A ripple on the first picture is only 5 or 10v and the spike is 60v. The spike width is not long enough to trip the desat protection.
Overall I am quite happy with the response from the bus structure.
I would be confident of running this up to 600v with 700v devices.
I am planning to run up to about 500v bus.
I need to contact tritium to find out what is the maximum voltage the 50kw DC chargers can do. I dont want to end up finding out too late that I can't use them.
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I haven't read any other response yet. It's due to high shoot-thru current due to the reverse recovery time of the low-side antiparallel diode. Sure, it can't be avoided by adding dead-time, but it can be avoided, or at least minimised, by "soft switching" or "resonant" designs. But that's not easy.francisco.shi wrote: ↑Tue, 21 Apr 2020, 21:20 It turns out there is nothing wrong and there is an unavoidable reason for the behavior.
Points for anyone who can explain it.
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Only one other answer and it was correct. The same as yours.
Yes. Soft switching would fix it but it adds a lot of complexity because the current is continuous during the switching cycle so it needs extra components. I did build a power factor corrected PSU front end years ago and it was amazing how effecient it was. It would draw 10A RMS from the mains with the heat sink facing down on the bench with no air flow and no fins and it would be skin warm. The heatsink was a bit of flat aluminium 190x95x6mm. It was a 3U block. It used a common IGBT and a fast diode and would run between about 15khz and 50khz.
What concerns me about the shoot thru due to the reverse recovery is the peak current. I have attempted to slow down the turn on so it will run lower current for longer. I am hoping this will reduce the stress on the IGBT and the diode.
Yes. Soft switching would fix it but it adds a lot of complexity because the current is continuous during the switching cycle so it needs extra components. I did build a power factor corrected PSU front end years ago and it was amazing how effecient it was. It would draw 10A RMS from the mains with the heat sink facing down on the bench with no air flow and no fins and it would be skin warm. The heatsink was a bit of flat aluminium 190x95x6mm. It was a 3U block. It used a common IGBT and a fast diode and would run between about 15khz and 50khz.
What concerns me about the shoot thru due to the reverse recovery is the peak current. I have attempted to slow down the turn on so it will run lower current for longer. I am hoping this will reduce the stress on the IGBT and the diode.
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I have increased the voltage of the battery pack after doing some testing to make sure everything is ok.
It has enough volts now to get to about 40kph. It now feels more like a real car. Still only running on one motor and about 75% of peak torque. I should get the next version of the gate drive in a few days so I will be able to test at full current. As it is now it accelerates at the same rate as the petrol Pajero in second gear (according to the accelerometer in my phone).
It feels quite good with a single motor. It would be quite drivable as it is.
Can't wait to get two motors running.
Did an acceleration test on my brothers STi and with two motors it will have about 15% more acceleration then the STi in a nd gear.
I must say the STi feels really fast. I just hope I can make it up while he changes gears.
He has to do 2 gear changes to get to 100kph.
Here is a video of the acceleration test.
It has enough volts now to get to about 40kph. It now feels more like a real car. Still only running on one motor and about 75% of peak torque. I should get the next version of the gate drive in a few days so I will be able to test at full current. As it is now it accelerates at the same rate as the petrol Pajero in second gear (according to the accelerometer in my phone).
It feels quite good with a single motor. It would be quite drivable as it is.
Can't wait to get two motors running.
Did an acceleration test on my brothers STi and with two motors it will have about 15% more acceleration then the STi in a nd gear.
I must say the STi feels really fast. I just hope I can make it up while he changes gears.
He has to do 2 gear changes to get to 100kph.
Here is a video of the acceleration test.
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I have been working on rewinding the motor.
The motor is 8 poles.
The original winding was 5 turns per coil. 2 series coils per pole. Two poles in series and then 4 pole pairs in parallel.
I need to wind it to half the voltage so I need 2.5 turns per coil. So I rounded that down to 2 turns. Then to make winding a little easier I decided to put 4 poles in series instead of two. This means each coil is one turn.
So I will have two sets of windings per phase instead of 4. One winding goes on one half and the other winding on the other half. This will reduce the number of internal joins I have to make. The wire is getting pretty thick. Each half phase is 19mm2.
The plan is to have the windings such that the start of both half phases is on the same slot and the neutrals will be spread out. This will also help to avoid having to have a 120mm2 joiner in the middle. For now I just need two 60mm2 joints for the neutrals and the phase ends are joint on the outside (not quite).
The first attempt was to preform the coils and then put them in. This turned out to be really hard to wind. It took me almost an entire day to put the wire for half a phase.
Here is a picture with the preformed winding. So I gave up that idea and took out the wire and started again. This time I decided to get all the strands together and leave them straight and wind them in the stator as I put the wire in. This turned out to be much easier and quicker. It only took 40min to put half a phase. Note that the phase terminal for both half phases come out on the same slot. For this to work one half phase has to be wound with opposite polarity to the other half phase.
The reason for having two half phases is to do with the power stage.
The peak RMS current is 800A but I can not get 800A devices so I need to put two devices in parallel. But it is not as simple as just paralleling the devices. So to get around the IGBTs ON voltage mismatch I am using the windings as sharing resistor. So one half phase is connected to one IGBT and the other half phase to the other IGBT. This allows each IGBT to take exactly half of the current.
The motor is 8 poles.
The original winding was 5 turns per coil. 2 series coils per pole. Two poles in series and then 4 pole pairs in parallel.
I need to wind it to half the voltage so I need 2.5 turns per coil. So I rounded that down to 2 turns. Then to make winding a little easier I decided to put 4 poles in series instead of two. This means each coil is one turn.
So I will have two sets of windings per phase instead of 4. One winding goes on one half and the other winding on the other half. This will reduce the number of internal joins I have to make. The wire is getting pretty thick. Each half phase is 19mm2.
The plan is to have the windings such that the start of both half phases is on the same slot and the neutrals will be spread out. This will also help to avoid having to have a 120mm2 joiner in the middle. For now I just need two 60mm2 joints for the neutrals and the phase ends are joint on the outside (not quite).
The first attempt was to preform the coils and then put them in. This turned out to be really hard to wind. It took me almost an entire day to put the wire for half a phase.
Here is a picture with the preformed winding. So I gave up that idea and took out the wire and started again. This time I decided to get all the strands together and leave them straight and wind them in the stator as I put the wire in. This turned out to be much easier and quicker. It only took 40min to put half a phase. Note that the phase terminal for both half phases come out on the same slot. For this to work one half phase has to be wound with opposite polarity to the other half phase.
The reason for having two half phases is to do with the power stage.
The peak RMS current is 800A but I can not get 800A devices so I need to put two devices in parallel. But it is not as simple as just paralleling the devices. So to get around the IGBTs ON voltage mismatch I am using the windings as sharing resistor. So one half phase is connected to one IGBT and the other half phase to the other IGBT. This allows each IGBT to take exactly half of the current.
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Two phases in one more to go.
The last one will be the most difficult one because there is less space to put the wire and all the other coils get in the way.- weber
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That's awesome. Good on you for having a go.
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- Real Name: Francisco
- Location: Brisbane, Strathpine
Re: Francisco's Electric Pajero
I was hoping to get the last phase done today but got tied up with something else and only got half of it done. Hopefully tomorrow.