can 900w & 7.5 amps A/C do 55mph?
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that's it duncan... keep sticking your idiotic foot deeper in your stupid butt mouth after you've been PROVEN wrong and keep talking down to make yourself look even stupider than you are you effing MORON! it's hilarious when idiots and liars stick to their stories even when you beat them over the head with facts. me? when i don't know something, i have the smarts to keep my mouth shut and work on learning. the first sign of intelligence is the ability to say "i don't know". anyone that goes out of their way to try and twist your words around to try and make someone look stupid is just begging for a lobotomy. i can't believe i let an effing MORON like you convince me that i didn't KNOW that dimples cause turbulence which creates a layer of air that's slipperier than a smooth surface it wants to cling to was actually wrong when i knew and have since PROVEN is EXACTLY correct. i do feel embarrassed to have been duped by an absolute moron who has zero ability to admit they're wrong. i knew what i was talking about all along. don't question authority... ignore it!
trying to get the math down but that darn apples & oranges crap as well as bogus info even within a formula is holding me back. i have this INCORRECT kinetic energy formula to start with,
215.9 x 1.356 = 292.7604kj actually. they didn't even multiply their own numbers correctly DESPITE the erroneous cubing.
so, after wading through the nonsense to get to the allegedly CORRECT formula for how many kj are needed to push 2135 lb @ 55mph, the math becomes USELESS anyways because another online conversion utility says that 300kj (rounded up from 292) = just 83w!!! there's no way that can be right. even if the three erroneous 0s you get from cubing 10 are added back to the mix to get 300,000kj, the conversion becomes 83,000w which can't be right either. the math is seriously busted in one or both places.
trying to get the math down but that darn apples & oranges crap as well as bogus info even within a formula is holding me back. i have this INCORRECT kinetic energy formula to start with,
that's OK though, the 10 CUBED can just be ignored and just multiply 215.9 by 1.356 to get the proper 292.72 instead of 292720.
215.9 x 1.356 = 292.7604kj actually. they didn't even multiply their own numbers correctly DESPITE the erroneous cubing.
so, after wading through the nonsense to get to the allegedly CORRECT formula for how many kj are needed to push 2135 lb @ 55mph, the math becomes USELESS anyways because another online conversion utility says that 300kj (rounded up from 292) = just 83w!!! there's no way that can be right. even if the three erroneous 0s you get from cubing 10 are added back to the mix to get 300,000kj, the conversion becomes 83,000w which can't be right either. the math is seriously busted in one or both places.
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You are correct. This is incorrect. kj cannot equal w. Energy and power are different quantities. I suggest you brush up on some basic physics fundamentals and then it will become easier to correctly apply the math.
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I mean no offense by this, but you seem to have a serious problem with units. It's either self-imposed, because you make assumptions, or you're not careful with your reading/comprehension.
Let's look at what you found... 215.9 x 10³. First off, 10³ = 1000, not 10,000. So you end up with 215,900. Then the equation says, multiply by 1.356 J/ft to get Joules (note: not kilojoules). The result is 292760.4 joules, which is close to the stated 292.72 kJ. The cubing was fine.
See Major's post for the rest. But you're probably not reading this anyway...
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if no one pointed it out yet, 10 cubed is 1,000 and not 10k as 10 to the first is 10. i ran that in my head before i went to sleep and it bothered me all night.
the formula was shoddy talking about kj one second then plain old joules the next.
why on earth should i have to study physics when all i want is a simple formula (or group thereof) that converts mass & velocity into watts? that's ALL i'm looking for eg. mass x velocity x .1234 = ergs, ergs divided by 4.321 = horsepower & horsepower x 9.876 = watts. that's all i'm trying to get to, but can't find the COMPLETE formulas. if KJ can't be converted to watts, then that's the wrong formula.
why does EVERYONE in this forum have to be so difficult?
and everyone joining in to attack me about reading needs to go back and read what i said. dimples lower drag by creating slippery turbulence. you can try to quibble with semantics and say that's not true when it is because i didn't put it in the words YOU WANT but too freakin' bad! that is exactly how it works! i learned that by FREAKIN' READING by the way.
just as all of the formulas etc. i find compare apples and oranges, so do you all compare mathematical dyslexia with illiteracy which have nothing to do with each other at all. i can deal with formulas that use up to basic algerbra, but not sine, cosine & tangents etc. as long as the formulas are systematically broken down one step at a time. when 10x formulas are listed at once though, it becomes an overwhelming blur to me and it becomes hard to ingest no matter how much i stare at it.
anyways... thanks for nothing everyone. it's become clear that no one is ever going to answer any question i say and everyone is simply here to pat themselves on the back because math comes easier to them than someone else who unfortunately struggles with it. thanks for all of your comments about how stupid i am. they really helped clear everything up.
so... the formula is:
people with name & number dyslexia shouldn't be allowed to drive electric no matter what their ACTUAL IQ is cars because they're too stupid. OK... got it. i tell you, i'd love to take an IQ drag race with everyone at the site that measures high IQs with a test that isn't time based and see how well you can visualize unseen sides of a cube & other real world type problems as well as SOME math because i scored a 157, dyslexia and all.
the formula was shoddy talking about kj one second then plain old joules the next.
why on earth should i have to study physics when all i want is a simple formula (or group thereof) that converts mass & velocity into watts? that's ALL i'm looking for eg. mass x velocity x .1234 = ergs, ergs divided by 4.321 = horsepower & horsepower x 9.876 = watts. that's all i'm trying to get to, but can't find the COMPLETE formulas. if KJ can't be converted to watts, then that's the wrong formula.
why does EVERYONE in this forum have to be so difficult?
and everyone joining in to attack me about reading needs to go back and read what i said. dimples lower drag by creating slippery turbulence. you can try to quibble with semantics and say that's not true when it is because i didn't put it in the words YOU WANT but too freakin' bad! that is exactly how it works! i learned that by FREAKIN' READING by the way.
just as all of the formulas etc. i find compare apples and oranges, so do you all compare mathematical dyslexia with illiteracy which have nothing to do with each other at all. i can deal with formulas that use up to basic algerbra, but not sine, cosine & tangents etc. as long as the formulas are systematically broken down one step at a time. when 10x formulas are listed at once though, it becomes an overwhelming blur to me and it becomes hard to ingest no matter how much i stare at it.
anyways... thanks for nothing everyone. it's become clear that no one is ever going to answer any question i say and everyone is simply here to pat themselves on the back because math comes easier to them than someone else who unfortunately struggles with it. thanks for all of your comments about how stupid i am. they really helped clear everything up.
so... the formula is:
people with name & number dyslexia shouldn't be allowed to drive electric no matter what their ACTUAL IQ is cars because they're too stupid. OK... got it. i tell you, i'd love to take an IQ drag race with everyone at the site that measures high IQs with a test that isn't time based and see how well you can visualize unseen sides of a cube & other real world type problems as well as SOME math because i scored a 157, dyslexia and all.
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I find this all terribly amusing. Terribly... amusing...
I'm pretty sure I don't have to worry about the OP reading this and taking offense either, since not only have several people given the answers to his questions from a theoretical standpoint... and from a literal standpoint.
Duncan seems to be the only person he reads.
Maybe I'm in his "ignore" list and he's just not getting the posts. In which case, I suppose this post is just as pointless.
Why else would someone post
OP... ARE YOU READING THIS?!?!
I'm pretty sure I don't have to worry about the OP reading this and taking offense either, since not only have several people given the answers to his questions from a theoretical standpoint... and from a literal standpoint.
Duncan seems to be the only person he reads.
Maybe I'm in his "ignore" list and he's just not getting the posts. In which case, I suppose this post is just as pointless.
Why else would someone post
at 1:37 pm PST when at 10:16am PST I wrote,
It's also hard to point out the difference between a Joule and Kilojoule when the answer makes the OP feel stupid. But how much simpler can the explanation get? It was not my intention to make you feel stupid. It was my intention to point out that 1000 joules = 1kJ... and countless other relationships.
OP... ARE YOU READING THIS?!?!
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We're not being difficult. Do you read the replies to your posts?
We have posted regarding this several times. I will put it as simple as I can. MASS times VELOCITY equals NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!! Meaning that the product of mass and velocity does not result in any useful quantity in any known system of physics or units in this universe, as far as I am aware.*
Furthermore, an erg = 100 nanojoules, which is a unit of energy. ENERGY is not POWER. So you can NOT convert units of energy to units of power.
No simple factor (number) can be used to make a KJ into a watt.
Got that?
major
* edit. Mass times velocity equals momentum. I missed that. Not a quantity used much in the EV study, but nevertheless, a useful quantity in this universe afterall.
Yep... It's like watching someone try to fit a square peg in the round hole.
Hey Major,
I'm not trying to quibble here but Mass times velocity equals momentum.
p = mv
Take the velocity integral of that and you get the energy required or recovered due to the speed change.
E = 1/2 m(v2^2 - v1^2)
To zeroemission: The above concepts are probably over your head but I didn't intend them for you. I'm sorry that we're not getting the basic idea, that power and energy are not the same, across in a way that you can relate to.
As simply as possible:
Energy divided by time equals power.
It takes a great deal of power to deliver a lot of energy in a short amount of time. A funny car goes from zero to 300 mph in 4 seconds, but it requires about 7000 horsepower to do so.
On the other hand, a tiny solar cell could still deliver megajoules of energy, but it would take years. The solar cell puts out very little power, but the total amount of energy it could deliver is nearly unlimited if you don't care how long it takes.
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Good point. I stand corrected. Momentum. Not something I use much. I double checked several places before posting that and could not see where the unit of kg*m/s was listed anywhere. Also did not see N*s. Oh well
But I do read replies to my posts
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i APPRECIATE anyone's help as long as they're not snide and condescending (especially when i'm right & they're wrong) about it. if someone gets an attitude with me, they are an enemy for life. i don't believe in second chances in that regard.
i have no problems with admitting my limitations or ignorance on any issue. to do so only makes one look stupider under the light of scrutiny. i am not a know it all and never will be nor will anyone else.
the round peg in a square hole analogy is very appropriate for this thread. that's my entire point. everything that i try to combined into a grand "unified theory" of ergs only frustrates me further because of all of the gaps that make the equations i DO have useless.
i KNOW there are formulas that will allow me to convert watts into velocity for a given mass and am relying on those that know them to share them because no keyword search i've tried, and i have, will lead me to them.
i'd love to bridge the ergs to time void but don't know how. the way i see it, there should just be a simple bar graph that has watts on the X axis and velocity on the Y for a given mass. even if no one has ever thought to make that info so user friendly (AND THEY SHOULD!!!!!!!), there has to be formulas that produce said non-existent bar graph. that the information seems hidden & shrouded in mystery no matter how hard i TRY to find it is frustrating. no, i never read that obscure book you did and in fact, there are absolutely ZERO books on EV conversions in my library that would contain that info COMPLETELY.
back to the square peg & round hole analogy, i'd like to modify it to "i'm trying to build a puzzle with just 3 pieces". where are the pieces? why are they IMPOSSIBLE to find no matter how many times one says "pretty pretty please with sugar & cream on top" to both search engines and human beings who either can't understand or refuse to answer what seems like a very simple question.
regardless, i would NEVER condescend to anyone seeking knowledge i have about something that they don't and would simply try to find the simplest & most direct route to them understanding the issue in plain english. those that condescend are the most worthless sort of people short of liars & thieves or worse in my eyes. they deserve no respect and will never get it from me. "turn the other cheek" is the mantra of suckers & masochists. i live by "nip it in the bud at all costs" and will bite my nose to spite my face at the drop of a hat rather than sacrifice an iota of integrity no matter how many "you gotta play the game" sheep i have to offend. i have a knack for making enemies, but my self respect is an immovable object. now if only i could find the formulas for moving that object at 55mph in relation to planet earth i'd use the word progress.
i have no problems with admitting my limitations or ignorance on any issue. to do so only makes one look stupider under the light of scrutiny. i am not a know it all and never will be nor will anyone else.
the round peg in a square hole analogy is very appropriate for this thread. that's my entire point. everything that i try to combined into a grand "unified theory" of ergs only frustrates me further because of all of the gaps that make the equations i DO have useless.
i KNOW there are formulas that will allow me to convert watts into velocity for a given mass and am relying on those that know them to share them because no keyword search i've tried, and i have, will lead me to them.
i'd love to bridge the ergs to time void but don't know how. the way i see it, there should just be a simple bar graph that has watts on the X axis and velocity on the Y for a given mass. even if no one has ever thought to make that info so user friendly (AND THEY SHOULD!!!!!!!), there has to be formulas that produce said non-existent bar graph. that the information seems hidden & shrouded in mystery no matter how hard i TRY to find it is frustrating. no, i never read that obscure book you did and in fact, there are absolutely ZERO books on EV conversions in my library that would contain that info COMPLETELY.
back to the square peg & round hole analogy, i'd like to modify it to "i'm trying to build a puzzle with just 3 pieces". where are the pieces? why are they IMPOSSIBLE to find no matter how many times one says "pretty pretty please with sugar & cream on top" to both search engines and human beings who either can't understand or refuse to answer what seems like a very simple question.
regardless, i would NEVER condescend to anyone seeking knowledge i have about something that they don't and would simply try to find the simplest & most direct route to them understanding the issue in plain english. those that condescend are the most worthless sort of people short of liars & thieves or worse in my eyes. they deserve no respect and will never get it from me. "turn the other cheek" is the mantra of suckers & masochists. i live by "nip it in the bud at all costs" and will bite my nose to spite my face at the drop of a hat rather than sacrifice an iota of integrity no matter how many "you gotta play the game" sheep i have to offend. i have a knack for making enemies, but my self respect is an immovable object. now if only i could find the formulas for moving that object at 55mph in relation to planet earth i'd use the word progress.
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My God. I think you have read a reply
In that case maybe the following will help.Please read the EV Information section of this site. http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=669
There, under this sub topic, you will find http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15508
And in that you can read this:
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my entire purpose in asking questions is to read replies, but not when they take on a condescending tone. i just cannot get along with that personality type at all.
too bad i don't know either the Cd or rolling resistance of my design. i will take a look at it and see if it's possible to ignore those 2 varables and get results.
rough draft of my "cheap, light & efficient" design
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z157/zeroemission/electrobug.png
if serial hybrids didn't guzzle pretty much the same amount of gas as a standard ICE car, it would be possible to turn a design like that into an under 500 pound vehicle with a very low Cd profile.
i'm not looking for Nth degree accuracy, just a ballpark estimate to design around. the best i've been able to do is imagine a space in between motorcycle conversions and typical EV conversions, moreso motorcyles as my nylon skinned tube chassis concept is closer to them in weight and drag coefficient.
if one can get better performance than a typical EV conversion building from scratch, but for the same price or less, unless you're given a donor car, it makes more sense to build an "electric skateboard" from scratch to me. i'm not a fan of imitating the look of ICE either unless one gets EV vanity plates to advertise the fact.
too bad i don't know either the Cd or rolling resistance of my design. i will take a look at it and see if it's possible to ignore those 2 varables and get results.
rough draft of my "cheap, light & efficient" design
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z157/zeroemission/electrobug.png
if serial hybrids didn't guzzle pretty much the same amount of gas as a standard ICE car, it would be possible to turn a design like that into an under 500 pound vehicle with a very low Cd profile.
i'm not looking for Nth degree accuracy, just a ballpark estimate to design around. the best i've been able to do is imagine a space in between motorcycle conversions and typical EV conversions, moreso motorcyles as my nylon skinned tube chassis concept is closer to them in weight and drag coefficient.
if one can get better performance than a typical EV conversion building from scratch, but for the same price or less, unless you're given a donor car, it makes more sense to build an "electric skateboard" from scratch to me. i'm not a fan of imitating the look of ICE either unless one gets EV vanity plates to advertise the fact.
If you want to get range with your design then figure out a way to put fenders on it (open wheels are very bad for air resistance), and find some narrow, smoother tires. Big knobbies are very bad for rolling resistance.
As a ballpark: Open wheels and square profile front and back, which you have, will probably give you a drag coefficient in the range of 0.7.
For rolling resistance you'll just have to do some Googling and put in numbers that are in a reasonable range.
For the frontal area, you should include everything between the pavement and the highest part of the car.
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those aren't the actual tires, or even scale i'd use IF i saved up enough to actually build the vehicle. i just used that one because it was from an ATV and i planned the design around salvaging stock ATV A arms & using a chain drive in back and because the angle was about right for a 30/60/90 draft.
i think i'd go with even smaller wheels than that.
i had pictured creating aero wedges like grand prix cars use in front of the wheels with lighting & turn signals inside them, but putting them in front of the back wheel would interfere with getting in and out which would already be a challenge without the added intrusion. i have symmetry issues and wouldn't like the look of just wedges in front of the vehicle only. cars should be narrower in the front than the back. i can't stand the look of reverse trikes.
i also imagined a full fairing that stretches the length of the car with one or both sides swinging down to be stepped over, but that just adds weight & complexity as does a front fairing.
i know i could get lower weight, inertia, rolling resistance & Cd using narrower tires, but i want the ride to have some "cool factor" to it too. aesthetics are very important to me. a cool looking car will win people over more than an efficient one. besides looking cooler, ATV slicks would offer better cornering. more than drag racing, i'd like to be able to dust corvettes in slaloms pulling 2g. part of the vehicles intended use would be to haul DJ gear to gigs and a sportier looking design projects a better image. i dread the idea of showing up to gigs in hideous orange U-hauls.
i'm not looking to set records, just to get 55mph & 50 mile range and 30 mile range for hauling as simply as possible. i like the KISS principle. any high performance on top of that is icing on the cake.
also, to keep costs down, the batteries i planned for the ride were 7-8 x 12v @ 155aH (US Batteries US 12V XC) in a T formation with 3 wide forming the seat area with the other 4-5 forming a channel between my legs for a low center of gravity and close to 50:50 weight distribution if that were enough juice to get the magic 55/50 numbers. if necessary, i have allowed for the possibility of mounting a pair of batteries sideways behind the 3 wides. i planned on using those US batteries as all of their higher capacity models are too tall & would add to the Cd.
one EV conversion site suggested 6v & 8v batteries, but when you do the math, you pay more and weigh more for a given wattage.
i guestimated a total cost of maybe $4000. $1000 for batteries, $1000 for having the frame built, $400 or so for suspension salvage, $1000 for electronics & $600 for miscellaneous fabrication i don't have the tools to do myself. that's in the range of "doable" for me.
from what i've gathered researching motorcycle conversions, if they can get 55/50 out of 4 deep cycle batteries, so 7 or 8 of them should offer better range & performance in a minimalist design like the electrobuggy. if i ever wanted to go cross country, i'd slap whatever size generator i'd need for highway speeds on a trailer for a serial hybrid. it would have been cool if i could just yank the batteries and throw a 30 pound generator in back as i first intended with this thread. that would save a lot of weight if only the juice were sufficient. it looks like those claims of a 5hp @ 75mpg opel GT serial hybrid are pure lies.
i think i'd go with even smaller wheels than that.
i had pictured creating aero wedges like grand prix cars use in front of the wheels with lighting & turn signals inside them, but putting them in front of the back wheel would interfere with getting in and out which would already be a challenge without the added intrusion. i have symmetry issues and wouldn't like the look of just wedges in front of the vehicle only. cars should be narrower in the front than the back. i can't stand the look of reverse trikes.
i also imagined a full fairing that stretches the length of the car with one or both sides swinging down to be stepped over, but that just adds weight & complexity as does a front fairing.
i know i could get lower weight, inertia, rolling resistance & Cd using narrower tires, but i want the ride to have some "cool factor" to it too. aesthetics are very important to me. a cool looking car will win people over more than an efficient one. besides looking cooler, ATV slicks would offer better cornering. more than drag racing, i'd like to be able to dust corvettes in slaloms pulling 2g. part of the vehicles intended use would be to haul DJ gear to gigs and a sportier looking design projects a better image. i dread the idea of showing up to gigs in hideous orange U-hauls.
i'm not looking to set records, just to get 55mph & 50 mile range and 30 mile range for hauling as simply as possible. i like the KISS principle. any high performance on top of that is icing on the cake.
also, to keep costs down, the batteries i planned for the ride were 7-8 x 12v @ 155aH (US Batteries US 12V XC) in a T formation with 3 wide forming the seat area with the other 4-5 forming a channel between my legs for a low center of gravity and close to 50:50 weight distribution if that were enough juice to get the magic 55/50 numbers. if necessary, i have allowed for the possibility of mounting a pair of batteries sideways behind the 3 wides. i planned on using those US batteries as all of their higher capacity models are too tall & would add to the Cd.
one EV conversion site suggested 6v & 8v batteries, but when you do the math, you pay more and weigh more for a given wattage.
i guestimated a total cost of maybe $4000. $1000 for batteries, $1000 for having the frame built, $400 or so for suspension salvage, $1000 for electronics & $600 for miscellaneous fabrication i don't have the tools to do myself. that's in the range of "doable" for me.
from what i've gathered researching motorcycle conversions, if they can get 55/50 out of 4 deep cycle batteries, so 7 or 8 of them should offer better range & performance in a minimalist design like the electrobuggy. if i ever wanted to go cross country, i'd slap whatever size generator i'd need for highway speeds on a trailer for a serial hybrid. it would have been cool if i could just yank the batteries and throw a 30 pound generator in back as i first intended with this thread. that would save a lot of weight if only the juice were sufficient. it looks like those claims of a 5hp @ 75mpg opel GT serial hybrid are pure lies.
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