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Hello all,

So, I have been doing research on electric vehicles and it has been going well so far. I only have one thing which I am still clueless about and that is braking. I know nothing of braking or how I can do it. Does anyone have any good resources on braking or is anyone a good resource for breaking?

Thanks

nitroignika wrote:Hello all,

So, I have been doing research on electric vehicles and it has been going well so far. I only have one thing which I am still clueless about and that is braking. I know nothing of braking or how I can do it. Does anyone have any good resources on braking or is anyone a good resource for breaking?

Thanks

Check out the electric vehicle wiki page. Basically you can either go mechanical (wingnut) or electrical (using the motor)

nitroignika wrote:Hello all,

So, I have been doing research on electric vehicles and it has been going well so far. I only have one thing which I am still clueless about and that is braking. I know nothing of braking or how I can do it. Does anyone have any good resources on braking or is anyone a good resource for breaking?

Thanks

As long as you're using a microcontroller, you're best off using the program to brake rather than engineering a mechanical system. You can be much more precise.

Definitely agree that the best way to go is with microcontroller and optical encoder. Out of curiosity, where did people get their optical encoders from, or did you make them?

Thanks

RJohnson wrote:Definitely agree that the best way to go is with microcontroller and optical encoder. Out of curiosity, where did people get their optical encoders from, or did you make them?

Thanks

Yeah I fabricated mine in our schools optics lab

windu34 wrote:

RJohnson wrote:Definitely agree that the best way to go is with microcontroller and optical encoder. Out of curiosity, where did people get their optical encoders from, or did you make them?

Thanks

Yeah I fabricated mine in our schools optics lab

UCF has a great Optics program (truthfully) if you are interested.

JonB wrote:

windu34 wrote:

RJohnson wrote:Definitely agree that the best way to go is with microcontroller and optical encoder. Out of curiosity, where did people get their optical encoders from, or did you make them?

Thanks

Yeah I fabricated mine in our schools optics lab

UCF has a great Optics program (truthfully) if you are interested.

Thanks coach

HandsFreeCookieDunk wrote:

nitroignika wrote:Hello all,

So, I have been doing research on electric vehicles and it has been going well so far. I only have one thing which I am still clueless about and that is braking. I know nothing of braking or how I can do it. Does anyone have any good resources on braking or is anyone a good resource for breaking?

Thanks

As long as you're using a microcontroller, you're best off using the program to brake rather than engineering a mechanical system. You can be much more precise.

Alright thanks for the advice and I will use this for my build but I know nothing about microcontrollers, optical encoders, and how to program them. So does anyone have an resources for where I can read into this a little bit more and maybe somewhere I can see builds using a microcontroller and an optical encoder?

Thanks

nitroignika wrote:

HandsFreeCookieDunk wrote:

nitroignika wrote:Hello all,

So, I have been doing research on electric vehicles and it has been going well so far. I only have one thing which I am still clueless about and that is braking. I know nothing of braking or how I can do it. Does anyone have any good resources on braking or is anyone a good resource for breaking?

Thanks

As long as you're using a microcontroller, you're best off using the program to brake rather than engineering a mechanical system. You can be much more precise.

Alright thanks for the advice and I will use this for my build but I know nothing about microcontrollers, optical encoders, and how to program them. So does anyone have an resources for where I can read into this a little bit more and maybe somewhere I can see builds using a microcontroller and an optical encoder?

Thanks

My electric vehicle from nationals is on the "best of nationals" page on the wiki as well as youtube. There are plenty of intro to Arduino programming books online as pdf's as well as at your local university library

Thanks, will do