It comes! And goes. And comes again!

What an exciting day. The ginormous brushless controller arrived from Hong Kong today, and it is ginormous indeed. In fact, it’s bigger than I had planned for, warranting a slight on-the-fly redesign of some of the structure. It also turned out to be quite troublesome – in that whichever sweatshop worker in Southeastern China assembled it was sufficiently drunk at the time to reverse the power input wires.. that is, red to – and black to +. This led to quite a harrowing adventure where I just barely manage to tie down the controller’s white, poofy soul.

And also some mechanical work.
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Still waiting on the stupid controller…

…but I’m getting other things done while it floats over by the Trade Currents. It really should be here tomorrow. Meanwhile, battery chargers and battery maintenance equipment are also on the way. This is turning into a usual engineering project for me – that is, it ALL gets done in the last week.

Things that are done:

  1. Powertrain mechanics
  2. Battery pack
  3. Power-converter-signal-generator-thing

Things that are not done:

  1. Throttle assembly
  2. Electronics mounts / side panels
  3. Instrumentation
  4. Wiring
  5. Testing
  6. Breaking
  7. Crying
  8. ..and Aaron, I didn’t forget this time: Cutting self and ranting on MySpace!

Pics from the past few days:

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