Recent content by mux

You almost certainly have the wrong screen type, we made that mistake too. This is the correct one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005754437462.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.113.5a4218028VpkM7 You can triple-check with the Clarion model number on your particular radio. If you...

This is a bad idea. But it's not super obvious why, so I'll give some insight. First of all, 18650s are really small, so you need lots and lots of them to make a pack. Each cell has two connections that you'll be hand-soldering or spot welding. Even if you're really good and only 0.1% of all...

It's not an overheating issue, it's an issue of the BMS not being able to keep up with the amount of charge mismatch in the cells. That happens both when fast charging and just using the car a lot. So you can still run into the same issue if you, say, drive the car a lot during the day and...

We've gotten a few reports from our Irish friends at Range Therapy that people in gen1 Leafs (so 2011-13) are not able to charge at Delta chargers, which look like this: We're wondering if anybody on this forum has experienced trouble at this exact type of fast charger. I can't find any in...

@DefenestratorNZ exactly which parameters do you want to extract?

No, this is not possible without quite a lot of additional electronics. The gen1 VCM 'does more' than the gen2+ VCM, there are some physical activation lines that have been transformed into CAN messages on gen2+ and there's quite a bit that changed to the CAN bridging aspect of the VCM. If you...

We've done some of this magic in the somewhat distant past. What essentially needs to be done is a remap of the capacity curve, where the CAN bridge reads the cell voltages from the battery every 10 seconds (the internal refresh interval) and calculates capacity based on that, plus some...

They all went to their local mechanic/dealer to get it fixed. The things that can go wrong are: - Lock is disabled - Mechanical issue with the door lock - Issue with the buttons - Wiring issue You need to narrow down the issue to one of these. Check the child lock on the door. Is it engaged...

If it's the 4th of april this year, you can definitely get this fixed by them. What happened is that the front wasn't secured at all and started flapping as it caught the wind. Very obvious issue, shouldn't be hard to get fixed under warranty (also: it's a cheap part and very easy to do)

Why not just use a commodity OBDII plug and leaf spy pro? Turbo3 has done all this work for you already.

All jokes aside, the real solution to avoid vandalism and destruction of utilities is a sense of shared ownership. If more people drive electric and dehumanizing EV drivers isn't as easy, people won't be motivated on a whim to do this kind of stuff. Likewise, if people aren't absolutely...

Yeah, it seems like you can somewhat safely depend on stacks of 3-4 modules at a time, but more and you'll run into thermal and end-of-life mechanical issues (cells swelling up and popping your constraints) We tried that, in fact I've done a few 3D scans back in the day (with a kinect, before...

A customer of mine tried this! But there were two main issues: (1) the Leaf battery isn't built to have a well-defined airflow path, or really any airflow. It's all very densely packed without any place to put a convenient blower or axial fan. (2) The rear stack of batteries is just a terrible...

Realistically, it's very hard to make small packs these days. The whole reason the 24kWh pack was a manganese spinel chemistry is the fact that this is basically the only chemistry that can take really high c-rate abuse at any temperature (in discharge) without lithium plating. A ~20kWh net pack...

Only real solution is either a manual rebalance of the faulty cell or, if it's damaged, replacement.