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the 2 seat pipstrel uses about the same amount of energy as a nissan leaf.

to be honest I really want to learn to fly, just so that I can fly down south on electricity, and not have to be bored in a car.

It’s strange that we are obsessed with cars that use much more energy as a house full of people. To be fair, cars have always used more energy than a house, they were just powered differently Though most of the energy used in a house is embodied in nature, rather than used at the house. https://the...

Did Renault tell what the cause of the charging impossible message was?

so what happens when you charge with positioning lights on only?

when you go to charge normally, what happens when the battery reaches full before the car's fuel gauge?
Does the gauge reset to full? or does an error get thrown?

reviving an old thread here, but what blocking diodes do you guys use? on my setup I have 4s5p 175W 36Vmp, 5.5Amp setup. I had a 10A10 blocking diode on each string as I was direct connecting to a 144v nominal battery 10A10 diodes are normal silicon units, so 0.7v or 0.8v drop. At 5A, they're gettin...

Zoe R motor has a spare 400 V connector in the back where you can connect solar pannels directly to the battery , no inverters :) But you have to be careful, the car must be on or the positioning lights must be on, so that the car will not go to "sleep" and diskonnect's the main contactor, if that ...

What voltage range do you need? Single cells, or for a whole pack?

An encoder is only needed it you want fine torque control. On a tractor you could probably get away with either speed control only, or course torque control that running open loop without an encoder would offer

its a shame we got the earlier AZE0 leafs in Australia, rather than the ZE0 units
I wonder how far along the NZ guys are at using our older versions

Mik Krell on the gold coast still has his, though I don't think he rides it anymore (dead nimh and other projects)

Do you feel up to a battery swap boars?

Sorry why couldn't an industrial motor controller/inverter be used? couldn't one be be tricked into outputting 240Vac 50Hz. it would need an output inductor (field windings off an old induction motor maybe?), and also likely a minimum load it would be interesting to try out I have thought about usi...

so this arrived in my inbox this morning:
https://e-station.com.au/dynamic_load_balancing/

so that's at least one commercial plug and play solution for having way more charging station capacity than you have power supply capacity

oops, quite right, there are a few cars that have higher single phase current limts so you could ask for 7.3 A say, and maybe get 7.28 A or 7.41 A due to tolerances in the components, measurement inaccuracies, and so on. I saw this on my zoe the other day when I was doing the charge testing. phase c...

the standard has 3A steps, between 6A and 32A, though I suspect most cars resolution is down to 1A or lower

a few members have at home stations that track solar use, so it's likely very granular indeed

mine is even more suspect.....I wonder if it's EST?

Unless I am miss-understanding something - which is highly likely ;) - there is not much point having a public 11kW charger, at it will reduce most cars to charging at 3.6kW or less, apart from the odd 3 phase capable cars? Most of the current generation cars have 3-phase chargers, capable of at le...

it usually goes like this: car plugs in car reads current limit from the charge station car asks charge station to turn on car draws current up to the current limit if the car draws more than the current limit, charge station shuts down. so a car with a single phase charger plugging into a 16A 11kw ...

it would still need pre-charging This is true of grid tie inverters too solar panels are nominally current sources, so their short circuit current is only little bit more than their maximum power point current. batteries are nominally voltage sources, so their short circuit current is several orders...

well we want to know whether you joined after an event, or whether hours of fascinated clicking lead you here.....11 years ago

any joy from setting the charge to 100% instead of 80%? or was it already there?

What did you load the python script into?

you are right 131v isn't empty. be aware though that the 110v lower limit is whilst riding, the pack voltage recovers some when it's sitting at rest. you won't ever see less than 115v or so after a ride due to this I use a TC charger with the enable function. The main improvement with the old EV Pow...

I did some charge testing last night. All values are reported by the car, though I did have my clamp meter inside the charge station to do a sanity check on values. The 3-phase 6A charging looked interesting, I might have to redo that measurement - it looks like the car was actually exporting power ...

Don't forget at 90Vdc a 2400W mains heater only is 300-350W. So you'd need a few... For $10 you get 10 x Halogen globes 12V 35W from bunnykings. 8 in series will be ~250W. $20 - 500W $40 - 1250W On plus side you'll brighten everyone's day On the subject of hot lights as dump loads Their resistance ...

...you have to simultaneously hold the throttle at full, have the left brake on and turn the ignition on. So three hands... doesn't every technician have to go full octopus once in a while? the trick is to trap the throttle with your elbow whilst using the same arm to turn the ignition on......I sh...