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So there'll be a number of phev outlanders being exported from Vic later this year then

How's your wall insulation? Double brick has an r rating of 0.5 which is pretty bad (incidentally double glazed windows have around the same r rating, windows are just bad thermally in general) On the windows front, have you considered secondary glazing rather than full replacement? Full replacement...

are we expecting ravensthorpe to get much use for the near future?

would a biodiesel gen set be a better solution in the interim? at least until use has been proven

I imagine the WA electric highway network will have more resources (money) that the perth to espereance highway

Australia has stupide rules about 3 wheelers and composite cars. Someone correct me if I’m wrong but full composite body cars are currently only allowed as a special vehicle like kit cars sold at very volume only. But things are changing fast. Let’s dream. I was under the impression that 3-wheelers...

3 phase charge points are unnecessary, unless you use them as a portable supply for a single phase EVSE. I stillthing you will only need one charger. My 38 kWh Ioniq is full from empty in 5.5 hours on 32 amps single phase. Three phase to the house means a maximum of 22 kW total. The wire in the wal...

what BMS have you already got? why did you stop at 3.45 - 3.46v? that's still on the flat end of the curve what charger are you using? you likely have low capacity cell groups too. do you have room to add more cells? being headways, you have the option of adding cells to the low capacity groups to b...

I'd be very interested how you go importing batteries yourself, in my experience add ~$1000 + 10% to the price for wharf charges

I can tell you that the heatsink paste I put under my Kelly controller was still pasty after about 5 years. Still liquid enough to drip out over everything. This is a much larger surface area than your average computer GPU, so I guess it is further from the air which might dry it out. That was my t...

for those who regularly deal with thermal paste and heat sinks, do you have a change out interval that you use, due to the paste drying out? apparently this is common in the computer industry, where the heatsinks are connected to heat loads (CPUs, GPUs and now RAM) that run at around 60-70 deg C con...

same as with GPS maps

maps saved locally will always be out of date, maps saved on the cloud will always be the most up to date

brendon_m wrote: ↑Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 17:42 Sad thing is, when an old Leaf (2010 -2013) has its pack replaced the new packs have a different style disconnect plug so there must be bucket loads of the old style across the world that have probably just been sent to the tip.

yep I'd say so

the dealers workshop is amazingly wasteful

Let me check the mezzanine of my shed... I might have one, unless @antiscab has already magpied it. c-caw c-caw I did take the whole battery, but don't remember seeing a service fuse I'll take a look through my shed, though I'm pretty sure I only have the base I do have some prius nhw10 service dis...

How about a Hyper9 motor? As far as I know they take a torque command via CAN bus. You can then make an external speed loop. you could, but if there's budget for $10k of hyper 9 + gear reduction (as that's the only way to get 40kW cont out of a hyper 9) it'd be more cost effective to get more batte...

Yep that's what I had in mind The 40kW continuous is a tricky one all the Warp motors are 200A continuous rated. 2 x Warp 9 in series would probably be enough I wonder if they can be ordered with stator windings designed to be driven at 72v 6A rather than 2.2V 200A at rated power. (Lots easier to ge...

The VLT5042 (42kW continuous rated VFD) driving a 15kw ABB 4-pole 415v motor running off a 600v dc bus that was in the electrolux drove on speed signal only Though 150V is a bit low for the VFD world. If you had 300V, then you can use all off the shelf parts (or out of the junkyard with some rewindi...

there's a Tesla Destination charger at the Kewdale Hotel where I've had 50% success rate charging the Ioniq... :? I've never been able to charge there with the Zoe, I didn't realise it did support legacy mode One thing I found with Tesla chargers, is there is a significant delay between plug in, an...

That's an outstanding price.

What charger and BMS have you got?

Good to know that exists, awesome

A shame there's no AC though (I suppose beggers can't be choosers)

1 off conversions tend to be around $15k more expensive for comparable performance and way worse resale value compared to an OEM EV remanufacturing vehicles could likely get to the stage where a second hand vehicle could be remanufactured for around the same price as a brand new OEM EV To make conve...

I second that

even if they are shorted, they're not likely to do anything exciting (getting to ignition temp is somewhat of a feat)

If they're not internally shorted, they'll come back to life. Do test them before disposing of

So I wonder if I can build an in-array unit with a current and voltage sensor so should either of them exceed 11 amps or 580 V respectively, a load is switched in series to prevent the inverter from tripping out? next time you see Ivan, you should get him to tell you about his shunt circuit he uses...

spod - was your car one of the ones that got flooded with oil? I remember a shipment was delayed due to that, as the cars needed significant cleaning

syntaxfx wrote: ↑Sun, 16 May 2021, 09:47 Since it's a pressure vessel, won't the H2 tank on the Nexo also need to be inspected, tested and re-certified on a regular basis?

yep

I'd want it to be more often than the 10yr intervals lpg tanks get away with too

you could add more batteries

though for a conversion that gets 150-200km range you're looking at a spend of around $30k in parts vs buying an OEM EV for $20-25k that already does it

Nagaman wrote: ↑Wed, 12 May 2021, 13:43 Is there a way of correlating the voltage with a % SOC using this information ?

Not accurately, as temperature varies the voltage too

in a conversion I would say you need to Ah count to really know, but the car should already do this in an OEM EV