Recent content by Tremelune

When I connect a 12V battery to the positive and negative terminals of my 2014 inverter, and then I test voltage from the positive post to the inverter case, I read a voltage that quickly drops to below 0.1V...At one point it dropped down to more like 4-5V. In a less controlled "experiment", I...

Yep, that's what I figured. Thanks for confirming!

My Leaf contactors are behaving strangely (I have them out of the car). When I connect one side of each to a battery, the other side of the contactor is connected as well...The contactors are always "on", as if fused together internally. The power just...always goes through. The weird bit is...

Getting the Leaf charger and BMS to work would save thousands per electric conversion vs aftermarket stuff...That would be a boon!

Just post it publicly. We all want to know.

Turns out the housing is "dimpled" after the joints are installed to create a lip, which means they aren't ever meant to come back out! I had to grind away the lip a bit, which freed them.

The videos I've found just have people casually pulling them right out...A Nissan Rogue video showed a retaining ring that I thought was my problem, but lo, there's no ring. I have yet to find anything for the Leaf where they do anything besides replace the whole assembly.

Is it possible to remove the circlip that holds the shaft on with the bearings inside the the housing...?

Does anyone know how to disassemble the inner tripod CV joints? I've got the boot off and pulled back, but the bearings just...won't pull out of the housing. There's no retaining ring that I can see, or really anything else blocking it... Mostly, I need to remove the half-shaft from the...

Whoa, is that right? Since I'm using a different (air-cooled) charger, that implies the cooling needs of the motor for driving are quite modest? I'd love to be able to run up a mountain in 100°F sun with the AC on, but I'm also shooting to have the simplest system I can until my project is on...

I'm attempting to put a 2014 Leaf drivetrain into a classic Mini. I've ditched the Nissan VCU in favor of an aftermarket solution, and I'm working on sorting out the cooling. If I can, I'd like to use the Leaf coolant pump, but it's controlled by the VCU. I can't get it to spin by applying 12v...

That's a bummer, I do not know where it went: https://insideevs.com/news/324591/nissan-leaf-dc-dc-converter-decoded-video/

Nice work! Any details on how you got the Leaf components to work outside of the car?

Dunno why this didn't turn up in my searches, but it's a ton of info on the BMS/LBC: https://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17470 "Anything less than the original 96 cells will require rewiring of the BMS board and some care to not burn out the ICs."

This looks promising: https://www.electricboxster.com/components Arduino code: https://github.com/Isaac96/EV-Code