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...

The coda throttle is dual channel, one channel reads 0.8 to 4.6V and the other 0.3 to 1.3V when on my 5v power supply. How does that relate to the Throttle settings of 0-4095? milavolts? Greg just posted a tutorial on how to do this with the ZombieVerter, but the process is so simple, and borrowed ...

from 0.8V to 4.2V you calibrate that area with some overhead to eliminate jumpiness. Say calibrate from 0.85V to 3.99V. This will then mean 0 to 100% throttle motion, everything else will be ignored. In the original setup documentation, the notes say that you're supposed to calibrate the throttle t...

"Digits" I think is, maybe a poor translation, based on Johannes' feedback to me a few years ago. In English, digits means how many orders of magnitude. Like, 5927 is 4 digits. 218 is 3 digits. How many columns the number takes up. "Units" might be a closer meaning. For example, ...

The reason trucks and SUVs skirt around this rule, is that the goal of the rule isn't what it says it is. It's not an environmental policy. It's trade protectionism masquerading as environmental policy to skirt trade regulations. Who makes SUVs and trucks? Not Japanese manufacturers, not European ma...

84 VW MK1 Rabbit DIY Wire Harness Fuse Block & BMW Safety Box 2 What's going on here, isn't the light bulb the same as a capacitor? Just taking a swing... A capacitor is a load, yes. But when it charges up it stays charged. A light bulb is also a load, but it is continuous. So it's constantly d...

Mitchy wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 1:45 pmPhoenix @ SGH has a UK based webshop.

That's dirt cheap. $50 for the whole kit?

Missing the plugs for wires you're not using, but, I plan to just slather mine with a bit of silicone and a thumb wipe.

I bought from Chief Enterprises, out of Texas. They required me to create a FedEx account because I'm Canadian and, I don't know they worry about get stuck with brokerage fees if the Canadians don't pay them when they appear after the fact or something (the FedEx account number tells them to enter t...

I am tempted to go back to the junk yard and press a few of these down and see if they have a full range of motion when installed or do they bottom out on the carpet, I am 99% certain they bottom out on the carpet and do not have their full range of motion like they do for us on the workbench I had...

ZombieVerter VCU Wont RUN A hunch... When autorefresh is on, the search bar refreshes faster than you can get to the 2nd search item. I've come across a few things like that, that seemed like they were broken or unresponsive, and it was just the auto-refresh. ... On variable names, I'm onboard with...

Just set temperature de rating in software as high as possible, the hardware is smart enough to over temperature derate Well that's good enough to let it run, but, ideally I could actually find out what the motor and inverter temperatures are. Especially in the initial test drives and such, it's us...

I presume you know this, but the reason the pins on a switch are counterintuitive, is because the switch has a pivot in the middle. Like a teeter totter, when one side of the lever goes up, the other side goes down. So the back end of the lever that actually does the switching, points to the opposit...

johu wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 9:16 amLooks like MG1 as bearings either side so you could remove the planet gearing alltogether

Took me a minute to realize what was off about that video.

It's from 13 years ago. Dr. Kelly is standing!

This is how I found out he wasn't born paraplegic. I've only ever seen him in his wheelchair before.

Gregski wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:21 amZombieVerter VCU Forward & Reverse

"You might see stuff like that, where your pin was underneath the pin and looked like it was on but wasn't"

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Fantastic work. Looking forward to having AC

I don't post a lot of updates here ever, but, rebuilt the rear suspension and have just started rebuilding the front suspension, including paying more for all the boots, bushings, brakelines and thingamabobs than I did for both entire cars. So, that's at the most dangerous part of half-done, where t...

Just a sanity check, working at it backwards...

82kwh / 115 miles = 713wh/mile.

That's about double what a car gets. Which, for a van that normally only gets 19mpg (versus a slipperier car that gets 40mpg)... yep.

This is probably within 10%.

So charging feature would work but not powering the dcdc converter while driving. Oh, I misunderstood. In the video you shared, you say it uses the A/C inverter to do this? I was somewhat planning on using my A/C inverter to run the A/C. Though that said, I also have the A/C off of a Gen3 which onl...

johu wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:54 amIs it version 1.3? Early versions don't have the user PWM connection.

*checks*

V1.1

Whelp, nevermind I guess.

Plugging in a kettle or something would also work.

With the SMT version of the Prius controller this is integrated. Good news, I also bought one of those 2nd hand from someone who went a different way. So I have both hardwares. In drive mode the "user PWM" pin runs the boost converter at a fixed rate. In charge mode the regular PWM runs i...

https://www.dynapar.com/technology/encoder_basics/quadrature_encoder/ That was a great link, it was explained the right way for me to understand. Ok, then your best bet would be to put a wheel (a handle) to the shaft and count LED pulses from channel A for one revolution. If there are 64 pulses the...