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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | This is getting pretty off course. If one thinks about this as similar to water pressure; what is the effect of increasing the water pressure in your house by 50%, i.e., not a good thing! Yeah- perhap's the DC to DC converter for the electronics might make it to 36V, then again I seriously doubt it. Most companies design electronic circuits and power electronics based on a design margin, + 50% is a bit extreme. There are no resistor's dropping voltage to the motor. More likely the motor control is using IGBT's with PWM modulation. I haven't seen to many manufacturer's of DC-DC or DC-AC power converters that designed IGBT switching circuits at +50% voltage. If they did, they couldn't be competitive.
End result- he's not the sharpest hook in the box! I assume he's going to claim a warranty failure when it finally stops working. This is part of the problem with the cost of equipment today, especially equipment which contains power electronic's, i.e., he's violating the operational specifications of the unit/motor. Will he tell the manufacturer what he did? Not likely!!! It's the same as shop lifting, i.e., by claiming a warranty failure he is stealing from the manufacturer. The manufacturer has to make a profit to stay in business- if all their customers do this they are dead!
"Integrity is like virginity, either you have it, or you don't!" H. Warner circa 1966.
Have fun!
Al
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