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	<description>Preserving, Repairing, Advancing and Parts for US Electricar Vehicles</description>
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		<title>Nical Cell Load Tester Prototype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Mike Bennett and I worked on a load tester for my nicad pack in my shop. It loads each cell one at a time with around 40 amps. Which is 1C. The goal is to find bad or failing cells when the pack is discharged down to the first drop in pack voltage. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/nical-cell-load-tester-prototype/</link>
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		<title>Fellow Techie gets a hand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yin wrote me today to let me know that I saved him $1230 in repair bills on his THS720 scope. He had the same problem that mind had back in 2009. He found this blog with the repair entry through Google. It felt great to hear that my work helped someone else!]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/fellow-techie-gets-a-hand/</link>
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		<title>THS730 for sale!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am selling a great Tektronix THS730 scope. It&#8217;s here on Ebay.]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/ths730-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>EV Race in the UK!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an EV race in the UK with so many different brands of vehicles. The energy consumption was listed over a 60 mile course for each car. There is a pdf file do download that has all of the great data!]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/ev-race-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<title>107.00kw Today!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ooops. Overshot a bit. Hit 107.00kw today.]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/107kw-today/</link>
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		<title>Closer Still&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pavement dried out. The acceleration is stretching the front suspension upward nicely. 98.44kw so far. Getting there. I bet any sagging is caused by the pack.]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/closer-still/</link>
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		<title>Closer&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got the pack doing better. But now it&#8217;s raining. Anywhere from 0-10 mph I can spin the tires right up in the rain! More testing on dry pavement will force more current from the system. That will let me know how close to 100kw I am.]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/closer/</link>
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		<title>Fluke 83 display repaired with polymer pencil eraser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My old faithful Fluke 83 from the mid 1990&#8242;s had a display problem that is sometimes described as ghosting. It was much lighter in color than normal. Some segments were nearly faded completely away. I found this thread. All I did was take a polymer eraser, the white ones from many mfr&#8217;s, and cut it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/fluke-83-display-repaired-with-polymer-pencil-eraser/</link>
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		<title>Almost at 100kw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some prototyping netted 91kw of output from my truck recently. The acceleration was unbelievable. That&#8217;s still an 80% improvement. The pack is sagging more than normal right now. So I&#8217;m correcting that as of now. I suspect that would be worth a few more kw. Looking forward to 100kw soon as the pack gets updated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/almost-at-100kw/</link>
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		<title>A123 Modules Stress Tested!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My A123 modules got a beating at a combat robotics contest recently. They held up fine. They were charged with a BMS on each cell. Discharge rates overlapped my truck. These cells saw far more G-forces than normal. But I needed some testing on the structural side of the design to make sure nothing stupid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rotordesign.com/blog/a123-modules-stress-tested/</link>
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