Recent content by coulomb

I would not expect it to work. The front end of the On Board Charger is a Power Factor Correction circuit that is expecting a sine wave. It's trying to modulate its current draw to be in phase and proportional in amplitude to the voltage, but no sine wave can remotely match a "modified" sine...

That's a supercharger dispenser. For DC fast charging, not destination charging. Despite "tesla-destination-charger-" in the URL.

I suspect that as EA and other charger networks start installing NACs connectors in North America, that will put further pressure on CHAdeMO availability.

I can answer my own question; yes, it's the next thing down, with the motor and final reduction gear under that. And now back to the original topic 😳.

A CHAdeMO car, yes. Like a Leaf. Allows it to charge at a CCS DC fast charger. No. CHAdeMO to CCS is complex enough as it is. No; CHAdeMO and CCS are DC standards. 3-phase is an Alternating Current concept. "2-phase" is arguably nonsense, although an argument could be made that USA style...

No. But as you guessed, a CCS car can block a CHAdeMO car from being able to use that dual handled charger. And that CHAdeMO handle may be the only one in the whole charger site. A few chargers with two handles (typically CHAdeMO and CCS but later in north America it may become Tesla/NACS and...

Pretty good. I burst out laughing near the end, with: Brrruuuuuuuuuuutt!! "Stupid combustion engines!" The design does seem to be the result of a lot of "ICE thinking", all those intricate plastic and copper parts. And M6 bolts! Sandy Munroe would not approve. I think they could use a bit of...

This is widely reported, but it seems that Electrek is the source everyone is quoting, and they say it was first reported by theinformation.com. I'm sceptical of this story's accuracy. Musk certainly has been hard-core about layoffs before, but this seems ridiculous, even for the enigmatic Mr...

No chance with any semblance of safety. I've not heard of a CHAdeMO connector that can handle more than 200 A. I would not want to see more than 200 A through an adapter, as it's not practical to water cool the pins of the connectors in the adapter. Plus you have twice the connector losses with...

Good question. I strongly suspect that they are identical; the numbers on the PCB silk screen match up exactly. But that's not definitive. I happen to have an iMiEV Waffle Plate™ handy; it has this small sticker on it: I would guess that 0136 following "No." would be a serial number. 5Q03...

My humble apologies for the confusion; I was calling F1 (with the locking gizmo) F23. Sigh. I've edited my posts, I hope I got them all. Regardless, it appears that your F23 has different wire coloring; I have no idea why. IF the pins numbers are the same, it seems that your interlockpins are...

My wild guesses: the cells swell slightly with increased SoC?? That seems unlikely. Another guess: some insulation is failing at a certain voltage threshold. Only when the cells get to a certain voltage does the insulation break down. Yet another guess: a cell is leaking electrolyte. Weird...

Right. But IF you replaced the harness that plugs into that large round connector, then you would have those nine wires. Dala did it that way just so he didn't have to trace those 9 wires (and a few others, BTW) back to the PDM. You can do it either way: replace that harness like Dala did, or...

I note that Dala doesn't connect to anything in that box; he cuts the nine wires short! He connects to wires that WERE FORMERLY connected to that box, that come from the PDM. Using the new harness seems crazy to me, it only uses 4 wires from that harness, and then you have to extend them (a...

He would mean the high voltage (traction) battery. In the old days, this would be a "pack" of lead acid battery modules.