Recent content by foolios

Thanks for the explanations. Very interesting idea.

You are using 4, 12v chargers in series on your 48v battery bank? Am I reading that right? Do you have to manually monitor them all or do they still work as they were originally designed, preventing an overcharge? Why does that work? I do have a 15 amp, 12v charger that I thought wasn't as...

The Aims can be plugged into Mains power ànd it's supposed to work from a generator as well. You can lower the amp draw to be less than the 30 amps I believe as low as 10% of the full amount. The load draw is a good guess but I've tried 3 different inverters and I'm just guessing that they...

My solar battery bank had gotten lower than I would have liked one evening and I thought that I could simply recharge it via the inverter I have hooked up to my leaf. It did not work. I'm hoping someone can explain why this isn't working. From the Leaf I am using the following inverter...

I leased mine, 2013 S in late March '14. A/C problems began this holiday weekend, 05/22/2015. I can't figure out from the warranty manual whether the A/C is still under warranty. 11,600 miles on it. Any help on figuring that out would be appreciated. I tried to make a call to the dealership...

http://www.fleetpoint.org/nissan/nissan-leaf-rocks-electric-avenue/28495/

THanks for that added info. Very interesting stuff. The Detroit Auto show had wireless charging on display there. Neat stuff.

I am. I bought one off Amazon. THanks for all the helpful information everyone.

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ya, I'm just playing with ideas. It's not worth hurting anything. just curious. thanks all for the info.

But even in that scenario with a charge controller in-between it'd still take days, right? Or would a charge controller work between batteries, I'm guessing not, but I'll have to think about it. Edit: Nope, I'm thinking it wouldn't. Have to have a higher charge to the controller... Edit: But...

Thanks for the added info. I had thought that the accessory battery in the leaf was charged by the DC-DC converter and main battery pack(480v) when the car was turned on. I can't remember if that's correct or if it's the wall charger for the car that takes care of topping off the accessory...

Thank you for the information.

I found that a 12v 75amphour battery I have is at 50% charge. I was thinking I could go out and get a trickle charger and spend some money to get the battery up again. But then I got to thinking that maybe I could do it for free if I used the leaf to recharge it. Would the car's voltage...

Charge your Leaf over a spot on the ground: http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/TECHNOLOGY/OVERVIEW/wcs.html