Awesome to hear someone' s further along my madness. Good info on the bearings and the mastershift stuff. At least now I'm not flying as blind. Yeah, I figured I'd have to drive the mastershift with my own h-bridge. Let me know how that vw x-y shifter works. Is it easily available or is it a 1-off? It actually sound like a cheaper option? I still like mastershift's paddle and bump shifters though.

Hey John, do you have any info on the igbt outputs? I'm needing switching frequency and maybe how much they dampened the switching. An o-scope image would be great with scale info. I can' t start working on that since I don't yet have the voltage to turn the suckers on. I already have the IGBTs, the conditioning circuits and the cooling plate. All I need is the snubber caps and I can drive one of the motors with a microcontroller. For that I need the frequency and a sample voltage/time graph.