Talk:Engineering Projects/Electric Cars/Howard Community College/Fall2011/550 ecars

10/0/0 .. no commitments made over the weekend to the team 1sfoerster 20:15, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Here are couple sites that were helpful;   Looking around, it seems their is quite a culture developed around the idea. Jeffreycarllloyd 00:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Here is a good video about the safety considerations concerning hybrid vehicles and their batteries.  Jeffreycarllloyd 14:20, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Here is the site concerning the EPA regulations for converting a car:  OJ 15:34, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Found this, it is called a Quasiturbine. Might be a little out of our league though. Jeffreycarllloyd 17:25, 24 September 2011 (UTC) You tube video with a LEGO pneumatic motor. Offers no practical application but it is fun to watch.Jeffreycarllloyd 14:55, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

You tube video of a generator made out of hair dryer fan[] Jeffreycarllloyd 15:10, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Quasiturbine Go Cart Jeffreycarllloyd 15:30, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

Homemade Compressed Air powered engine OJ 15:51, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

This will be useful for us if we can figure out how these are made. They use compressed air as fuel also OJ 15:54, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

This is a custom air hogs engine powering a wheel. We should investigate this for our engine. Also an engine that has a very high rev OJ 15:58, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I experimented with the turbine and it outperformed the original battery pack. I put the links on the team page. The experiment was less than scientific but I feel it was accurate enough.Jeffreycarllloyd 18:30, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

We should go for a hybrid consisting of electricity and compressed air as it will be easy and effective for our car --Kjaved373 23:43, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

I dissected the Power Wheel transmission. The loss of rear-wheel torque is related to the gear ratio between Gear 2 and 3 if we somehow eliminate these two gears and attach Gear 1 to an axle I think we will have the torque we were looking for. If you look at the video | (My Daughter's Power Wheel's Transmission In Operation At Speed) you can directly see the loss of power in the third gear.Jeffreycarllloyd 15:45, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

I think I have working model of the twin turbine system. I have to work out a few bugs but I should have some video posted later. Jeffreycarllloyd 16:50,16 October 2011 (UTC)

The tandem turbine system did not increase output. It could be related to the overall set up but tried many different set ups with very similar results. Jeffreycarllloyd 19:55, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

100/100 project 1

sketching and experimental videos
Please draw sketches of project and upload experimental videos Bophelo dimapo (discuss • contribs) 06:07, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * These projects are now five years old. You could try contacting the professor, User:1sfoerster, but even he hasn't been active for more than a year now. -- Dave Braunschweig (discuss • contribs) 13:58, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * These projects can be deleted .. we have moved to google drive .. for privacy .. and yes .. we have switched to videos ..

--1sfoerster (discuss • contribs) 13:41, 19 June 2017 (UTC)