It's an AC induction motor, any motor controller can run it. There's no magic or secret sauce to "play nice" with.
/EVG/ - Electric Vehicle General
Noah Hughes
Ethan James
not that simple, go read up on efforts to get tesla drivetrains to work with conversions. Generally people need to do super hacky implementations, more careful builds alter the control of the inverter and operate the motor entirely through that
Logan Young
>super hacky
Wow man totally didn't realize you need a black hat cryptohacker to unlock the mainframe backdoor
It's a simple electric motor. Just because it has a cool logo on it doesn't mean it's different than your washing machine motor. If you want to use Teslas controller the only "hack" is reverse engineering all the CAN signals needed to and from the motor, which has been done already so now equates to copy pasting. Or just use an off the shelf controller and not worry about that. Neither path requires more than rudimentary knowledge of AC motors.
Luis Hughes
again, go and read up on people trying it.
what makes things worse is that early model S motors and inverters seem to have gone through lots of iterations even within the same model year so one setup won't work for everyone. it's a pain
Leo Bailey
the new TM3 PM motors should be a bit easier to work with.
Will be a while before anyone will be able to get their hands on one though
Isaac Roberts
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Connor Cook
I don't need to read and regurgitate forum posts to understand how an AC induction motor works
Quite the opposite, permanent magnet is much harder to deal with for a DIYer (as well as more dangerous)
Brayden Murphy
really? I've always heard the opposite
Oliver Walker
Sebastian Adams
The motor itself is more simple, but with permanent magnet AC sensing the position of the rotor is much more critical and you can't just shut one down while moving because it's going to create voltage no matter what while slowing down. I wouldn't expect to see any high voltage PMAC motors on anyones garage jobs anytime soon.