P OLYTECHNIC'S ELECTRIC VEHICLE
INTRODUCTION
Spring 1996
Polytechnic University’s electric car, the KA1000, was designed and built by Karl Acker in 1981. Currently, it's body is constructed of steel, fiberglass, and foam. The four–wheeled, two–passenger vehicle weighs about 3000 pounds. Sixteen 6 volts Trojan T–145 deep cycle lead acid batteries provide energy storage, making the total pack voltage 96 volts. Each battery is rated 180 amp-hours at 75 amps. An 8" series DC motor from Advanced D. C. Motors powers the KA1000. It provides 12 through 25 hp at ratings from 72 through 144 volts/hr. Also, the KA1000 is equipped with a Curtis PMC 1221B pulse width modulated electric motor controller. It is rated at 72–120 volts and 400 amps maximum at an operating frequency of 15 kHz. All these improvements have lead to a top speed of approximately 65 mph and a range of about 75 miles for normal driving.
The LabVIEW© based PolyEV–DAQ, an acronym for POLYtechnic’s Electric Vehicle Data AcQuisition, was designed in the 1996 Spring Semester. Prof. Peter Voltz supervised the implementation of the LabVIEW© DAQ set–up. A limited budget at the time called for a software design in a Personal Computer environment to be transferred later on to a laptop in–vehicle set–up. The software works with LabVIEW© 3.0.1, an 8 channel LAB–PC+ DAQ board, and Windows 3.1.
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