This looks like its going to be a great series to watch, already looking forward to the next installment

Thanks for this video. It is great to have an insight into your other projects :).

Hahaha EXCELLENT!!! This is why I love your channel. I'm an unrepentant gadget guy, much to my wife's chagrin. Unfortunately, most of what I make is only operable by me as you have to stand on one leg, close the left eye, cross two toes on the right foot, and hold your breath to get it to work... But hey...

Been looking forward to this, Doc! 👍👍

3:38 - Thanks for the shoutout :p. Glad it was helpful to you. A shame you paid to have the motor refurbished before you checked it with a proper battery. Another thing you could've done was just getting it started by spinning it with your hand. :/

I can see you were having fun!!😉 keep up the good work!

wow! Can't wait for next episode!

Wait, I came for the floating head!!!

Your my kind of guy. I've also been learning as i go. I'm not talented at maths so it's a stretch but I'm persistent and that's key. Not giving up.

Great video! Nicely done.

Awesome video.

Good you go straight into detail rather than guff on and on like some do. Like it!

32kw is plenty for a conversion. I drive with a 30kW motor and my inverter peaks at 24kW 100A limit at 240V. The car is 1800lb so quite spiffy, if I need to show off. So you'll not be dissapointed by performance. If the motor really 200lb as you think, it is around 4 times heavier than it needs to be, so I suspect the 32kW limit in the forklift fuse is to conserve battery and not the real power of the motor. More likely this motor can take 90kW for 5 seconds and 20kW continiously, far more than you need. Look up the specs on the motor nameplate or google it.

As I’m a bit older than a number of you and your audience a simple tool to add to your E-Car toolbox is a starter test switch. Keeps you insulated from the amps needed to successfully test an complete your projects. No one wants to play Smokey in front of the kids! Great work.

Great Stuff...thanks man...most of these conversion chaps overlook the detail of the motor

Great video man, I'm unsure of what motor I can use to turn a petrol into a hybrid, preferably something small but with enough power to make a noticeable difference in MPG, anything you could suggest would be most helpful. Thanks Aidan

Good job.. I hope I can do it someday.

Hey DrZzs really appreciate it. Where or what motor I can get dc motor for ebike..?

i thought you where from utah because I remember seeing a ksl ad for that place with all the forklifts. then you showed that guy danny's thing and I saw sandy utah which proved me right. :D

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊 Best Video, was searching for this. Please do more on this. Other options and where one can harvest motors 🎉🎉🎉from scrapyards

This is so realistic, even for KZfaq

i am planning to use for power tiller in fields cultivation, in fields speed not required but the load(capability, power) is required... what is your comment DrZzs please reply.

''well that will teach ya'' best laugh i had this week

4:06, "these engines are heavy"

great journey and thanks for sharing - would not have thought that the battery would not have enough A cause starter batteries usually have a lot of A.

I think it's hilarious that you thought a little 12 volt battery would run that giant forklift motor...

I'm out here in Utah as well, I'm also doing this conversion on a Vw. I'll be looking for more of your videos, hopefully it'll help me.

The Mitsubhsi Imiev uses a 24kW 300V 3 phase water cooled forklift motor which can be overdriven to 45kW without too many problems (that's the rated output of the car)

Some parts of this video made me dizzy. But soooo much better with the tripod.

Danny ripped you off. Expensive paint job.

How can a 48v 10A forklift motor handle hundreds of amps and volts?

I'm gone watch.

If you run the armature at the rated voltage you can probably run the main coil at a higher voltage than 48v to get more power and top speed right?

yes, indeed,... I'm an arrangeer too..... ;-)

I bet Danny laughs everytime he sees this video. Just kidding. Don´t feel bad. That junkyard piece would have left you stranded probably in a few months in the middle of the road. I am an engineer, and my dad refurbished myriads of similar motors. Danny surely changed bearings, make sure all of the weldings in the armature coils are working and sturdy, and applied a good lacquer in the stationary coils (in a motor that age it is very needed as this lacquer degrades on time). This was needed, and cleaning up your engine bay in a rebuilt is a necessity. I mean, if you´re going to tear everything apart why not cleaning and painting even with a can spray? Danny could have saved you a lot of trouble downstream, trust me. Take the word from a maintenance engineer for 15 years.

doc. the leaf motor is in for my conversion. the bits needed for that are fairly cheap right now too.

How did you mean to run that motor with such small bateries

Hi. Great stuff DrZzs! Could you please help me locate a supplier for Forklift motor and speed controller? Thanks and regards. Shmuel.

the tiny 12 volt 4 amp hour batt for 300 amp motor lol

Problem is my little project has a more unique donor vehicle (so no kit option), a Kaiser M725 Military ambulance all original 24v system and I'm just trying to figure out what I would need to get top speed of 45mph and a range of 100 miles.

You could use a greabox & mount it transverse

First! Oh wait its not a live stream

Where is the “forklift heaven?” Like, how did you find a place like that? I’m not able to find a forklift junkyard on the east coast and I think m just not googling the right things to find it. In the end, were you able to reach highway speeds and reliability with your project?

HI THERS A NEOPRENE? MULTI COUPLER FOR MOTOR TO BOX , ITS FLEXIBLE TOO AND UNBREAKABLE,

Where the heck do you find a forklift graveyard? Lol I'm in Atlanta, Im sure there's a couple within a few miles of me lol

So Danny never tested the motor at first? Or you just wanted it rebuilt?

i have a 48 dcv motor, and that motor you have as to be closer to a 80 dcv

Volts don't mean anything it's the amount of amperage that that battery pack can put out if it's only a hundred amp hour battery it's going to peak somewhere around 150 200 that motor may require a thousand amps just to start spinning make sure you read the label if there isn't one then call your guy back LOL

This is just a hypothetical idea to loose the battery aspects of electrical vehicular propulsion and recharging systems of these type of ev's!?! I'm pretty sure you can create an electric motor that has half the axle of the motor making the electricity to begin with, and separated by completely insulated wall inside the main electric motor container with the single axle going down the center of it, that would on the other side of the insulation wall in the center of the container allow the other side to be the side of the electric motor generator to actually produce the action of the whole axle spinning by the produced energy on the other half of the axle separated by the insulated wall so that the separate partitions of the container are simply self-powered instantly active upon being triggered to begin the whole affair between the units two axle's dual implementation of a dynamo generator coupled on the same axle with the action creating electric motor turbine, or whatever you want to call it, I am pretty sure this is doable, and the most simple design that I have ever come up with today that covers all the bases of the b******* that are system has been a run on for years!!? Thank you and may our common sense and logic awaken, and if you cannot get my logic or my grammatical syntax and the contextual meaning of what I have just shared, then please tell me about it and I will do a walk through again and do diagrams if I must!? Enjoy;)

I bet Mr. china took a lot of this young mans money, took a motor that all ready worked, shined up the com bars with some dollar store scotch pads, and spray bombed it with some dollar store grey paint and TOLD him he fixed it.

Crap, in my country its almost impossible to get anything even barely modified road legal.

Have you integrated it into Home Assistant yet? 😆

I found a 5-7 hp 36v motor on Craigslist for 120 dollars 😃, I'm picking it up tomorrow, I'll try to mount it on a motorcycle

Danny should have had the same test with his battery and not go through the expensive rebuild.

How did you thought about a 12 v 7 ah battery can spin a fork lift motor ? 🤦‍♂️😂

Only a 48 volt LOL that's four times more power required

I don't have 15K for a kit...

First

I believe forklift motors are 36 volts

Sure, if you are happy to go not much faster than a fork lift

Poor lil battery

no way you need to buy a 100K tesla

I would of known to try a bigger battery instead of that little battery.

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