The Most Serene Order of Galvanic Monks
Standing Carriage Controller (Victorian Hoverboard, Relay Edition)
For further particulars, consult the full electrical plan in Diagram of the galvanic arrangements. Welcome, curious electrician and itinerant mechanician!
This repository contains the designs for a fully relay-driven controller for a small standing carriage (hoverboard) executed in the idiom of the year 1884: no semiconductors, much brass, a quantity of quicksilver, and a modest disregard for personal safety.
Modern folk may call it a BLDC hoverboard controller.
We prefer polyphase electro-magnetic standing carriage, governed by relays.
Principal Curiosities (Features)
Polyphase electro-magnetic motor ~48 V nominal galvanic pile 3-phase BLDC, 30 poles (15 pairs) Star-formed connexion of the windings
Two manners of “sight” for rotor position Minute magnetic contact-springs (reed switches) The motor’s own Hall instruments , poetically described as thinking sand A three-pole, double-throw Selector of Indicating Apparatus
chooses between Reeds and Sand.
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