Vehicle Motor Controllers (Shell Eco Marathon),Group 21, 2019-20

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Assembled motor controllers for the Shell Eco Marathon competition. VESC Open Source Project, and compatible with VESC Software by Benjamin Vedder. This motor controller is installed in the vehicle that connedted with the battery, motor, pedal, and when pressing the pedal the signal will be sent to the motor controller to move the motor so the vehicle the move. The motor controller has the ability to do many things a normal RC speed controller can not such as limiting the amount of amps that come from the battery to the motors. An easy way to burn up a motor is by sending it more amps than it can handle for too long (often while riding up a hill). There’s also many other protections that can be set through limits, such as the max temperature you want the vesc to get to (so you can’t burn up the speed controller), min and max input voltage (so you can’t pull the voltage of your battery under a safe limit, which would brick your battery), and max regenerative break amps (protects battery from having too many amps sent back in to it). by setting these limits correctly, the whole system of motor controller going to be protected.

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