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Old 12-05-2018, 07:10 AM
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Please do get back to us about what he finds.
Will do, but while we're waiting for Willie's expert opinion on Monday, let me run this past the electrical engineers out there:

It is the controller that is running hot, and the controller "meters out the battery voltage and current to the motor based on some type of operator input such as a throttle. This allows for the operator to control the rate of acceleration and deceleration as well as the rate of speed the vehicle moves at."

Assuming that the recently-installed replacement motor is too powerful (draws too much current) for the existing electrics, could it be that Mrs Fox's going at a reduced speed is actually causing the controller to have to do too much work?