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Hi Hugh, I recently replaced the batteries in our Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV after water ingress caused major problems. Mitsubishi Policy is to destroy the battery packs because of perceived safety hazards. I pushed back hard and eventually convinced them to let me keep my old pack. My main argument ...

I think it only works on the Aspire, but others may know better. What I can say is that IMHO it is barely worth having. I am generally very keen on apps but I was disappointed with the PHEV app, both with the limited functionality and its clumsy user interface. Because it works over WiFi, it often h...

Rob - just regular old general purpose styrene polyester resin - pretty whiffy stuff, but easy to work with. I assume you're aware that of the three types of fibreglass resin (polyester, vinylester and epoxy) polyester is the least impervious to water penetration? I suspect this doesn't matter as m...

The nice thing about fibreglassing is that most sins can be fixed with an angle grinder (or Dremel for venial sins 😁 ) and patching. What resin are you using? I've been using Bote Cote exclusively for the past few years now. Not cheap, but the 2:1 ratio of resin to hardener makes for easy mixing, es...

My Google Chrome Browser still has a red warning triangle + Not Secure in the URL field. Not showing an https header. Will this be changing soon? Short answer: No. Details: This is a leisure-activity forum, not a bank website. To host a legitimate, encrypted connection (using the https url prefix),...

And one of the biggest reasons of the lot:

4. Loss of a valuable income stream from servicing and spare parts sales.

Hi Terry, That would be great if we can make it work, PM sent. To update our panel saga, over the Oz Day long weekend we were away in our van and had plenty of time to test out our two panels under a variety of conditions, mostly optimal for solar power generation with clear skies and plenty of cool...

Hi All, During the process of migrating our account to new servers, I also upgraded the phpBB platform this forum is based on. Unfortunately, unlike previous upgrades, this one blatted the links to our forum images and the legacy smileys from the old forum. I've now repaired those links so images an...

Hi All, Overnight, our AEVA web hosting was upgraded to new, faster servers. Unfortunately, this took longer than planned so some of you will probably have experienced site outages this morning and I apologise for that. Both the Main AEVA Website and the forums are working for me now in WA, so hopef...

Hi francisco.shi , coulomb , If you click the Quote button for a previous post as I just did for Coulomb's last entry above and then examine the quote tag it produces, that gives you the information you need to work out how to do what you want. The quote tag I got from Coulomb's post was this: [quot...

A mould would be worthwhile if you were going to do more than a couple of these I'd imagine. If you're only doing one or two, I think it would be quicker/cheaper to just fabricate it. It's not too hard to fabricate a shallow fibreglass box. You'd just do a timber frame that sat neatly and accurately...

Easy enough to make into a "tub". Our project was a fresh water tank for our yacht, two compartments, baffle plates, complex shapes. Kaye and I constructed it ourselves after some "training" from our nephew who is a professional shipwright specialised in fibreglass fabrication. Doing a rectangular "...

What dimensions do you need for your fibreglass lid? I happen to have two or three sheets of vinylester fibreglass made up for me by Custom Mouldings in Henderson for a boat project a while back. We didn't need anywhere near as much as I'd anticipated. Two of the sheets are about 1200mm square x 5mm...

I'll be interested to hear how your testing works out, @Richo.

Cheers,

I guess the circuitry difference between top-balancing and bottom-balancing is too great to be able to include both and switch between the two?

Actually, not "trainer wheels" but rather "I am not a spammer, honest - wheels"!!!

Lotta clicks for that age, ours is the same age and has done 44K. I agree it still looks to be a good buy on the surface. If anyone here has a look, make sure you or someone who knows what to look for checks that each of the drainholes in the underside of the battery module still has its silicone pl...

OK, thanks, I'll get onto it tonight (at work ATM)

Thanks Terry, I managed to separate the two last night, carefully working my hands between the Thermoclear and panel without any curves. I'd avoided any more sun on the panel fearing it might cure the Armourflex further but I'll definitely use the sun to help get the glue off the back of the panel n...

Hi Terry, I'd actually used some "JCB Joint Connector" bolts and matching Barrel Nuts from Anzor Fasteners to connect my panel to its square-section aluminium frame so I will repurpose these.. Interestingly, my experience with the Armourflex has not been that wonderful. The one panel I've glued to t...

Hi Tim, You can operate the climate control via the remote app for heating or cooling. I believe it works whether the vehicle is plugged in or not, though I haven't tested this on mine. Some of the limitations that prevent me from using this feature myself much at all include: The range between your...

Ah, I'd misunderstood obviously. I'd thought the differential expansion problem was between the metal of the vehicle roof and the plastic base of the panel. I'd assumed that the expansion/contraction rates of the plastics in the panel base and the thermoclear would be similar. As you say, hopefully ...

Hi Terry, Well, got my Thermoclear, got my Armourflex and have lightly sanded and cleaned down the back of a panel and the Thermoclear, spread around the Armourflex and stuck down the Thermoclear. I've got a plywood panel on it and some weights to hold things together without damaging the cells (the...

Many thanks Dave for sorting out something that had had me stumped for a very long time!

Hi Terry,

Thanks for that, I've emailed Ampelite's Perth office to see if they have someone that sells Thermoclear near us.

Now I just have to see if I can find somewhere in Perth that sells the glue, I gather you recommend Simson 70-03 or Selleys Armourflex.

Cheers,