Do you take off the negative or positive wire first? Easy. You want to be like Ghandi. You want to stay positive. You want to spend the least amount of time as you can being negative. That means the negative terminal is the first to be disconnected, and the last to be reconnected. I've never heard c...

those of you blessed enuff to not be familiar with the Home Owners Association may not get what I am trying to say here, lucky you An HOA community is perfect for the type of people who want all the expenses, responsibilities, uncertainties and liabilities of owning a home, but who miss the restric...

I've started rewriting the main page, preview it here: https://openinverter.org/wiki/Main_Page_New As-is it's a huge, huge improvement. Formatting is still "wall of text", but a few bolded or highlighted sections will fix that up. Still a bit techy. I'll take a swing at it later. I'm okay...

wondering how they work, do I have to ship them a blank or do they pull from their inventory, I think if I have to ship them the material that may be cost prohibitive Oh, no, you place your order and they cut it from their own inventory. I think SendCutSend even has free shipping for "eligible...

Where you getting the plates cut?

Send-Cut-Send and Oshcut will both do 1/4" steel I think, and for affordable prices (laser cut, I think?).

How do you bypass the DC to DC converter? It would be nice to simply remove it from the inverter. I imagine it wont work as intended if I up my voltage from 220V nominal to 440V nominal. This is written out in detail on the forums somewhere, that, if I understood it well enough to explain to others...

Gregski wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 11:38 pmha ha, this is a much bigger treeeee car garage, it doesn't look like that in the pic, also in this house EV parts can live inside, if you catch my drift

Oh, sorry to hear you're single now.

As one of the people most likely to benefit from your effort, I wish I could be helpful. But, all I can do is cheerlead from the sidelines.

You moved? In 120'F weather? Why do you hate yourself?

Congrats/Condolences on the new place. It still has a garage, so, I'll take that as somewhat of a positive sign.

This answers why you've been so quiet.

So, according to the sale thread, there's new problems. I presume Johannes is back home and not interested in another 400km road trip to diagnose. There is definitely a concern whenever the person who drives and DIY vehicle is not the person who converted the vehicle. You really do have to know the ...

WOOO!!! Considering the weather there I don't really think it's fair to call that a burnout, as it's just what happens when a half-molten tire sitting in the sun for the afternoon makes contact with asphalt in normal operation. Congrats on leaving the property and endangering public safety by lettin...

"Do a burnout" *rolls 1 carlength forward at 2mph* ... I guess the visitors to Good Enuff Garage will take what we can get. She's a'rollin', and not just downhill. That counts. And she's like, fused up, VCU'd up, safetyboxed, has seats in her, a foward/reverse switch that doesn't involve u...

I'm uncomfortable celebrating by the inches here. What is this, a celebration for ants? We are being trained to underwhelm ourselves.

Let's get this sumbitch rollin' so we celebrate the success all at once!

Do a burnout!

Throwing the drive unit in the rear is pretty easy to do if you just weld up a De-Dion axle (3 pieces of box tubing) to the drive unit.

The DC-DC unit is probably not worth even attempting to fix, since you can buy a whole inverter from a junkyard for like $30. Just go yank a replacement.

How do you know if someone built their own car? Don't worry, their license plate will tell you.

The EV Vanity plate. An essential requirement in feeling elitist over others and welcoming the egging of coal rollers. Your project is truly complete now.

I can't believe I've been sleeping on this thread. There's almost zero van conversions out there, and you're putting 100,000km on yours already. Your bodywork makes me feel good about my bodywork. :D I find this is the way to make videos that's laid back enough for me that I actually can find the ti...

There is a 200 digit headroom above potmax. So anything above potmax will be interpreted as potmax. Once you cross potmax+200 throttle immediately returns to 0 because we assume that there is a wire break and the throttle value does not reflect the drivers command anymore. Ahh. This is the piece I ...

And only $40,000. Greg is a fool. Should have just loaded his musket with benjamins.

I would get whatever is in the cheapest range, and works in the most common outlet in your area. You'll end up slinging it around to different places, I wouldn't invest in anything that needs special outlets. Higher power is nicer for production work, where time is money and you don't want to just l...

Good writeup on the cause/consequence. This is going to create a lot of troubleshooting problems in the future, or an intimidatingly-long "how to set up your throttle" instruction. ... why pick 3500? Why not 3300? Why not 3700? Why's 3500 the right spot? ... One thing I still haven't wrapp...

Just unbolt the seat and turn it around backwards. Problem solved!

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Do you even need a brake booster, those didn't have power brakes from the factory did they? They sure did. Normally a brake booster is against the firewall, right behind the brake pedal. Well, because this whole vehicle was an argument between the engineers and the management, with the engineers in...

zippy500 wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 9:18 pmCan anyone recommended a crimper that is suitable for these crimps, looks like the largest crimp takes a 4.00mm wire

On recommendation of someone else here, I bought these.



$26 CAD, available on Prime.

And they've worked satisfactorily.

Hey Matt, have you gotten the Opel rolling yet? Finished the rebuild of the front suspension last week. Finishing up the rear suspension tonight if I'm lucky. Needs paint and to press in the new bushings. Finishing the driveline assembly tomorrow if everything goes perfect. Then it could be tested ...

Via the A/C inverter it will just boost. Via MG1 it will just buck. You need an additional relay to connect the battery to the buck side while charging. At least then you don't need the extra current sensor because it will use the MG1 ones I think I mostly understand this, but not sure I'd apply it...