SubcooledHP
Its been a while since I've had a chance to work on my S10 EV. You may remember sending me some suggested connections for my delta to some larger IGBTs. The outcome was a little less that a success. But its totally understandable when one is hacking there should be a little smoke involved otherwise everyone would be doing it. So on to round two. I picked up another IGBT brick and a nice powerflex VFD. Removed the original IGBT and subsituted the larger 225amp six pack. installed 6 pcs 10 ohm resistors to the drivers both plus and neg. I tried to fire it up using a 100w litebulb for a saftey. The vfd powers up fine but as soon as I power up the drive (5htz) the load reduces the dc buss voltage to below the 180v threshold and the VFD shuts down. Do you think I need to increase the safety to a larger load to mayby 3-4 amps ( a big litebulb) to maybe overcome any thresholds in the larger IGBTs or is some thing wrong in the firing of the IGBT causing a short??
Randy AKA Randen
Its been a while since I've had a chance to work on my S10 EV. You may remember sending me some suggested connections for my delta to some larger IGBTs. The outcome was a little less that a success. But its totally understandable when one is hacking there should be a little smoke involved otherwise everyone would be doing it. So on to round two. I picked up another IGBT brick and a nice powerflex VFD. Removed the original IGBT and subsituted the larger 225amp six pack. installed 6 pcs 10 ohm resistors to the drivers both plus and neg. I tried to fire it up using a 100w litebulb for a saftey. The vfd powers up fine but as soon as I power up the drive (5htz) the load reduces the dc buss voltage to below the 180v threshold and the VFD shuts down. Do you think I need to increase the safety to a larger load to mayby 3-4 amps ( a big litebulb) to maybe overcome any thresholds in the larger IGBTs or is some thing wrong in the firing of the IGBT causing a short??
Randy AKA Randen