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I am putting together battery modules from a 2014 leaf for a diy EV conversion using leaf stack and using a Resolve controller. I live in the warm desert SW of US where temps do not go down to the low temps where leaf battery heaters would come on. Looking for any reasons why it would be a bad...

Thank you- Thank you. I am planning on using aftermarket ECU. After looking at the short list of options (Thunderstruck; Resolve; Rippletech; Zombieverter and Open Inverter) it looks like I am going to go with Resolve. https://www.resolve-ev.com/ I have the pdm that came with the leaf...

Thanks - working on getting the bed off the truck now to gauge how much room i have to put battery boxes. Each set of battery modules weighs 300 lbs so will rent a engine hoist to take bed off and manuver the batteries into place. I am hoping to find a set of waterproof truck toolboxes to use...

Thanks that all sounds like good advice. Soldering may turn out to be best bet in long run after I figure out exact wire lengths and make double check all bus bar connections going to the correct pins on LBC. Less connections the less can go wrong.

Yes the two groups of cells will lay in one long battery box and all the sensor wires will be inside box all going to the LBC that will also be in box.

Thanks - Yes that is what i am hoping to make - a 6 ft long metal box to lay both battery sets in (all modules in original leaf pack). All bms sensor wires wires will br

I am doing an EV conversion of my old toyota pickup and have leaf stack and battery modules from a 2014 leaf. I am looking for any recommendations on types of connectors (and crimping device) to use to make an extension cord" of sorts to extend/adapt many of the bms sensor wires to a new...

I am an owner of parts of once was a 2014 Nissan Leaf. I have to say i have never driven a leaf nor currently looking to buy one. I do however have a 1980 Toyota Pickup that has a worn out engine that i am planning on replacing with the em57 motor/inverter/dc dc converter and parts of lithium...