twinforced
New Member
In short I'm taking my electric wheelchair (Blast 850) and making it work better for me offroad.
It has a pair of large permanent mag, 4 pole motors, I dont know what they are rated at because Pride will not talk to me about any of that.
It had a 100 amp peak controller that was just not up to the job and would over heat in a heart beat, it died the other day with a sad puff of smoke..
I want to put it an AmpFlow controller for a few reasons.
One is more power.
Two is I can program it to just the way I want it to act.
Three is that it can run at 100 amps for A LONG TIME and not over heat, and even do 120 amps with out any probs, this would be the limit I would set it at. It would live a long happy life.
My prob is the joystick I have has more wires than need'd.
I just want simple Tank drive, the controller will mix the 2 channels and do that, even set the brakes when I stop. I dont know how a joystick is power'd, I understand the Channel 1 & 2, but will the AmpFlow require me to use the Center Tap, and what the heck do I do with the Positive and Negative leads ?
Here are the spec sheet for the Joystick.
http://www.pennyandgiles.com/docGallery/103.PDF
I cant seem to be able to copy and past the spec sheet for the controller, but its an AmpFlow.
http://www.ampflow.com/motor_controller.htm
Ive had a few answers on the joystick but I need a definite, it goes here answer.
Thanks.
It has a pair of large permanent mag, 4 pole motors, I dont know what they are rated at because Pride will not talk to me about any of that.
It had a 100 amp peak controller that was just not up to the job and would over heat in a heart beat, it died the other day with a sad puff of smoke..
I want to put it an AmpFlow controller for a few reasons.
One is more power.
Two is I can program it to just the way I want it to act.
Three is that it can run at 100 amps for A LONG TIME and not over heat, and even do 120 amps with out any probs, this would be the limit I would set it at. It would live a long happy life.
My prob is the joystick I have has more wires than need'd.
I just want simple Tank drive, the controller will mix the 2 channels and do that, even set the brakes when I stop. I dont know how a joystick is power'd, I understand the Channel 1 & 2, but will the AmpFlow require me to use the Center Tap, and what the heck do I do with the Positive and Negative leads ?
Here are the spec sheet for the Joystick.
http://www.pennyandgiles.com/docGallery/103.PDF
I cant seem to be able to copy and past the spec sheet for the controller, but its an AmpFlow.
http://www.ampflow.com/motor_controller.htm
Ive had a few answers on the joystick but I need a definite, it goes here answer.
Thanks.