Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "WeberAuto" channel.

  1. I'd love to see the exciter and coil drive wavefoms. I'm willing to bet the waveform shows some complex patterns that could increase efficiency in some modes.
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  2. From what I've read, Tesla seems to have settled with six pole synchronous reluctance motors. That makes sense, as it's a far more efficient motor than any PM motor would be. If I were to hazard a guess, the frequency of the coil drivers would range in the 230 - 400 hz range. As for finding out if both front and rear are both continuously used, a quick and ugly quickie test would easily tell. A couple of turns snoop coil around one of the AC lines would tell the tale. Might get a trace from high current pulses in the HVDC line feeding the module, but a Hall sensor wold likely perform better. I'll remain not a fan of thin tires and utterly not a fan of multiple tire sizes on a singular vehicle. Low tolerance for large obstructions for the former, logistics and Murphy's law for the latter and honestly, I've found that Murphy was an optimist.
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