And here are the rest of the e-mails I received:
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From: David Boyd [
[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 8:20 PM
To: Stuart Flower
Cc: Ives Meadors
Subject: Re: Stuart Flower
Hi Stuart, After 3 1/2 years I'm stepping away from the company. Ives Meadors, my partner is now taking over Synkro, and taking the controller into production. He can answer any questions you have about controller shipments and production from here on. I'm on to other ventures.
Best regards,
David Boyd
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From: Ives Meadors [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:54 AM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: progress
All,
Please READ THE EMAIL BELOW I just received this morning!
This marks the end of the long wait for the bus bars.
Ives Meadors
www.Synkromotive.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:03 AM
To: Ives Meadors
A 600lb package arrived this morning for Synkromotive Where do you want it ?
Mike
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From: David Boyd [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 1:45 PM
To: <removed to protect identities>
Cc: Ives Meadors
Subject: Regarding Synkromotive transition
Greetings everyone, My apologies for the mass email, but there has been a major transition at Synkromotive and you were all somehow in my inbox at one time or another.
After 3 1/2 years as a founder of Synkromotive, I am turning over the reigns to Ives Meadors, my partner in this venture. We have strived to develop the highest quality components for the EV market, and are near to production on the first product, the DC700LV motor controller. It is a great product, and Ives is committed to bringing it to production. I however need to move on to other ventures due to lack of cash flow from years of development and business diversions. For those of you who are Beta customers and early buyers of 'pilot production' units, I believe Ives has every intent on honoring the contracts and replacing those units in the field. I am not sure of his timing, so please contact him for any further information. For all future business, he will be your immediate contact as well. His info is;
Ives Meadors
[email protected] or
[email protected]
503-771-9102
2351 NW York St
Portland, OR 97210
If you wish to contact me personally, my other email is
[email protected]. After this evening, my synkro email will be discontinued. My phone number will remain the same.
Best regards and wishes to you all, and keep in touch if you like. I hope you're all driving EV in the near future!
Cheers,
David Boyd
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From: Ives [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 6:37 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Synkromotive Progress Report November 2010
60 DC controllers arriving in mid/early December:
Assembled boards are ordered and due in December. And as seems to be common in this economy, the preferred IGBT was not in stock so the same substitute part used successfully in the 5 prototypes earlier this year will be used in the upcoming batch. Final assembly, test and QC will be done at Synkromotive.
Cases are within reach of December. A final quote is under way and due in today. Two competitive quotes for harnesses are in. Lead time for these require a decision this week to also arrive in December.
An assembly jig has been designed and tested. A rework strategy has been devised for the poor quality Chinese machine work on the bus bars in stock. The rework will likely be started later this week. Semi-automated test fixture and software development will start last week of November.
Boards for a more foolproof (or fool-resistant) lead-acid battery charge balancer and a revision of the DC controller requiring less manufacturing precision are also due in at the end of this week. Work on these revisions will not begin until late next week. It is possible power ratings will jump up in the late spring batch of controllers, depending on test results and part availabilities.
Ives Meadors
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From: Ives [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 12:48 PM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: Synkromotive Progress Report January 2011
While cresting the top hill this has not been an easy month.
Most of early January was lost to shop lease renegotiation and moving preparations along with testing being thrown off course. The test fixture was a complete failure and I have had to revert to manually test units after losing a few valuable days on the fixture. The benefit of a fixture is to ensure constancy between units.
During manual testing a couple of bugs were found last week further stalling progress. The bugs were resolved on Friday with one being a microprocessor revision correcting previous errata. The other was a more frequent occurrence of an issue seen once or twice in the previous test unit but was dismissed at the time as a test motor issue. This re-tuning has been the first semi-dependant motor parameter so far.
The sample inventory of internal cooling ducts was depleted so this weekend the duct design was briefly reviewed and an alternative solution was tested. With the bulk of inventory on hand; the remaining build time was measured and found to be very encouraging. I have a couple of units built only needing the new duct installed and retesting so I hope to ship the first one if not 2 units today.
Ives Meadors
www.Synkromotive.com
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I think Pete (Gottdi) got one of the 2 controllers referred to in the last e-mail.
I hope the above gives you some comfort.
Regards
