The school i currently attend has a "young engineers" extracurricular club that i currently work within. We enter an electric car race called F24 which is run by GreenPower that sets guidelines as to limit the parts you may use. The motor that is currently used is as shown here and here.
As the current club's leader is currently quite old-fashioned in that he is not willing to try new circuits or mechanically based ideas which could improve the car's speed and efficiency i feel as if i have to do a lot of things in my own time and prove their worth to him quite frequently or else he is not willing to change a thing on our cars. Because of this i am forced to come up with solutions which are quick to test and implement although this current idea isn't as easily done.
The idea: To double the voltage across the motor but applying it for half the time, this could be done with an oscillator of some type (although i have not worked too much with motors so im not sure which type would be best) as to boost the motor's speed without risking the destruction of it.
Note: Up to two 12v, car-type, lead electrode batteries may be used at any one time and neither the batteries' or motor's internals may be tampered with. Only 4 batteries of the previous specification may be used on the day and the race day consists of two 90 minute races from which a winning team is decided based on the highest number of laps.
As the current club's leader is currently quite old-fashioned in that he is not willing to try new circuits or mechanically based ideas which could improve the car's speed and efficiency i feel as if i have to do a lot of things in my own time and prove their worth to him quite frequently or else he is not willing to change a thing on our cars. Because of this i am forced to come up with solutions which are quick to test and implement although this current idea isn't as easily done.
The idea: To double the voltage across the motor but applying it for half the time, this could be done with an oscillator of some type (although i have not worked too much with motors so im not sure which type would be best) as to boost the motor's speed without risking the destruction of it.
Note: Up to two 12v, car-type, lead electrode batteries may be used at any one time and neither the batteries' or motor's internals may be tampered with. Only 4 batteries of the previous specification may be used on the day and the race day consists of two 90 minute races from which a winning team is decided based on the highest number of laps.
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