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by johu
Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:54 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: [WIP] BMW Z3
Replies: 332
Views: 168865

Re: [WIP] BMW Z3

When we want to run it at circa 400v and with a more common ratio of around the 3.6:1 both of those factors have a large effect on the motors top speed. Motor top speed is not limited by voltage. Peak power CAN be limited by voltage given it's not limited by inverter or motor anyway. Field weakenin...
by johu
Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: BMW
Topic: i3 controller hacking from diyelectriccar.com
Replies: 229
Views: 55548

Re: i3 controller hacking from diyelectriccar.com

MrX wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:00 am I thought that at some stage there was an i3 variant added which mapped the tmphs sense correctly
When setting snshs=BMWI3 it will switch over to SPI comms for udc also
by johu
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:20 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: 2008 Nissan Quest Van with Tesla SDU. [FINISHED]
Replies: 121
Views: 93846

Re: 2008 Nissan Quest Van with Tesla SDU. [FINISHED]

Re info from PM: You have fixed the motor case grounding which is good but it seems power supply to the inverter is not stable. How much current does your contactor consume? 5.32.R gives the BrakeCheck status because cruisemode != Off so it wants to see the brake pedal once at startup. After that yo...
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: [DRIVING] VW Touran powered by Nissan Leaf [FINISHED]
Replies: 737
Views: 166179

Re: [DRIVING] VW Touran powered by Nissan Leaf [FINISHED]

With the above established I want to return to the original questions and the (partly premature) conclusions. So we start with a perfectly working car and a terminal class that remained largely unchanged for years. After fixing a completely unrelated problem with the battery the VCU starts to do spu...
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:41 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Watchdog Reset through terminal DOS
Replies: 2
Views: 225

Re: Watchdog Reset through terminal echo

Alright, more changes. Now I no longer managed to lockup the terminal or entire processor. The USART has an overrun flag and apparently while that is active it no longer accepts data. So now I a) disable the RX DMA while running a command - that stops the watchdog reset b) reset the resulting overru...
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:04 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Watchdog Reset through terminal DOS
Replies: 2
Views: 225

Re: Watchdog Reset through terminal echo

I have added an echo 0|1 command now and also allow turning off echo in the constructor. So now for the car project I turn it off by default. Upcoming versions of the ESP firmware can turn it off via the command https://github.com/jsphuebner/libopeninv/commit/df951cc1b7fae2dd483429b873bcbbe838746db2...
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Watchdog Reset through terminal DOS
Replies: 2
Views: 225

Watchdog Reset through terminal DOS

Today I found 90% of the cause of an issue that has been plaguing me for months now. I had random reboots of my VCU mid drive. Read up on the whole story here: https://openinverter.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=66887&hilit=reset#p66887 Lately I had the VCU restart during charging but there was one i...
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:59 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: 2008 Nissan Quest Van with Tesla SDU. [FINISHED]
Replies: 121
Views: 93846

Re: 2008 Nissan Quest Van with Tesla SDU. [FINISHED]

Congratulations :) (to finishing of course) I don't think the Tesla inverter took damage as it has reverse polarity protection, both the logic board and the power board. EDIT (after watching the video): Do you have a solid ground connection to the inverter? The contactors will pull a surge from grou...
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:00 pm
Forum: Mitsubishi
Topic: Can you identify this Outlander item?
Replies: 6
Views: 288

Re: Can you identify this Outlander item?

Interesting. Yes the large outputs chokes point to an inverter
by johu
Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:42 am
Forum: Mitsubishi
Topic: Can you identify this Outlander item?
Replies: 6
Views: 288

Re: Can you identify this Outlander item?

I doubt this is from any vehicle. Open frame with fans doesn't play too well in cars
by johu
Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: Charging
Topic: Charging one battery from another as an alternative to parallel packs.
Replies: 9
Views: 409

Re: Charging one battery from another as an alternative to parallel packs.

If you're savvy it's easy to rig this up by extracting the buck/boost stage from a Prius Gen2 inverter. As an invariant the additional pack must always have a higher voltage than the installed pack so it can sit at the boost side of the converter. That said for the rare use case it might be easier t...
by johu
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Batteries and the cold
Replies: 1
Views: 195

Re: Batteries and the cold

Hi! was discussed before: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4511
by johu
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:24 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: [First Drive] Homebuilt Locost 7 - from Motorcycle engine to Leaf power!
Replies: 47
Views: 7868

Re: [First Drive] Homebuilt Locost 7 - from Motorcycle engine to Leaf power!

That's great :)
150A and no motion is pretty good, wouldn't even bother to get closer
by johu
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:58 am
Forum: Charging
Topic: QCA7000 Foccci+Clara User thread
Replies: 22
Views: 1101

Re: QCA7000 Foccci+Clara User thread

No communication this time, undo last change... ppvariant is just relevant for calculating cable capacity for type 2 cables. Can't be the culprit. Have you checked your port contactors that they are not stuck? Iso resistance of port? Does CP measure fine seen from the port? Test also with ActuatorTe...
by johu
Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:28 pm
Forum: Charging
Topic: Develop a QCA7000 board?
Replies: 569
Views: 5785771

Re: Develop a QCA7000 board?

celeron55 wrote: Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:00 pm Are all of the pins other than LOCK_MOT1 and LOCK_MOT2 referenced to ground?
Yes exactly. PE should be solidly connected to the chassis not far away from the charge port so that would serve as a ground reference for the signals

I guess the design is still young enough for shuffling pins
by johu
Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:46 am
Forum: Toyota/Lexus
Topic: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter
Replies: 12
Views: 616

Re: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter

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
by johu
Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:07 am
Forum: Toyota/Lexus
Topic: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter
Replies: 12
Views: 616

Re: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter

So charging feature would work but not powering the dcdc converter while driving.
by johu
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:54 am
Forum: Toyota/Lexus
Topic: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter
Replies: 12
Views: 616

Re: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter

Good news, I also bought one of those 2nd hand from someone who went a different way. So I have both hardwares. Is it version 1.3? Early versions don't have the user PWM connection. Stupid question, how does it know whether it's in charge mode, and is charge mode also what happens during regen? Bec...
by johu
Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Toyota/Lexus
Topic: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter
Replies: 12
Views: 616

Re: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter

The booster is limited to 100A, so this will get you 10 kW
by johu
Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Charging
Topic: Develop a QCA7000 board?
Replies: 569
Views: 5785771

Re: Develop a QCA7000 board?

The order has gone through now, I'm excited! On another note I wanted your input on this. Here is the current pinout: focci_pinout.jpg The two contactor outputs are on different plugs. The LEDs and button are not on the plug that is more charge port oriented but on the car oriented one. Now I though...
by johu
Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:46 pm
Forum: Toyota/Lexus
Topic: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter
Replies: 12
Views: 616

Re: Doing useful things with the Prius Gen2 buck/boost converter

Also, does any of what you described require using new pins or telling the buck/boost what to do? Any code or software? Or does it just happen by being connected? Sorry, just found this. With the SMT version of the Prius controller this is integrated. In drive mode the "user PWM" pin runs...
by johu
Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:49 am
Forum: Battery Managment (BMS)
Topic: Manual discharge of a 60v pack
Replies: 6
Views: 551

Re: Manual discharge of a 60v pack

I like to use my cheap Chinese grid tie inverter
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by johu
Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:02 am
Forum: User Interface
Topic: Display alternating
Replies: 3
Views: 425

Re: Display alternating

screen capture would help. Is it the new "green" interface or the old "white" one?
by johu
Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:02 am
Forum: Inverters / Motor Controllers
Topic: Am I to dumb for Open Inverter
Replies: 21
Views: 1236

Re: Am I to dumb for Open Inverter

Yes I see it now and no that will not cause an issue