With the tractor more or less functional I've gone back to the Land Rover. Which means more rust of course. This time on the bulkhead, the foot wells on both sides are pretty bad, as are the top corners. Cut away all the rust and this is what I have to work with. Patched most of this up today and ...

nubster wrote: ↑Tue May 27, 2025 2:29 am Did you also swap the encoder wires or current sensors?

Yes, although it is quite possible I missed something.

I tried this with an LDU a year or so ago. Inverter made some unhappy noises so I didn't try for very long as I didn't want to blow up the LDU either.
Decided not to pursue it much further given how old the LDU is these days.

I would set regen to 0 for now. Then add it in slowly when it's driving to suit your tastes along with regen ramp which looks too high for now as well.

Also change throtramp to 5.

Sounds like you have it running on the bench? It will act like that when it's unloaded.

Added PP detect on the zombie module and today charged with zombie controlled charger for the first time. Updated the github with this code.

It only starts with PP detect, still no current ramp or stop mechanism. For this current implementation I used the wall charger to stop charging, then when I ...

So I've made a bit of progress with this. I have DC-DC running on a zombie test module, I also have charging running with fixed frames, these frames are in the current zombie test module but I haven't done any charge start code yet so it's not 100% functional.
The DC-DC needs only a couple of bytes ...

Short drone shot. It seems driving a tractor and a drone at the same time is quite difficult. No fancy auto follow on my drone.

Got the toys out of the shed today to rearrange things. Tractor is now at the front of the shed ready to do some work.

I've been building on the MG charger reverse engineering by Damien and have the DC-DC running in a zombie module. I have also got it charging with some static messages, to the ...

For others looking, the low voltage connector part number is 1J0973714

More details on it here
https://transistor-man.com/audi_48v.html

I've got a Gen 2 charger from an MG5, part number EP2CCU6625A in my current project.

A slight difference in the pinout compared to the V2Lchargerpinout.png on the github, actually only figured it thanks to Damien's video. Just the pins of the hybrid can are difference. The charging wake up input ...

The only thing I would say about using the original gearbox is that it does noticeably affect the efficiency. I've worked on a 90 with the leaf setup into the original gearbox and it was around 1.5 miles per kWh.

Tesla Model 3 would be a better choice compared to the LDU I think. The LDU has it's ...

Battery is now all in along with all the 12v wiring. Next on the EV side is MG charger testing/hacking.

Also have some more restoration to do, threw a few body panels back on which all need a little bit of welding and some new window rubbers.

Hit a nice milestone in the battery refit this weekend. All the modules are in, with most of the HV cabling done to the point of being able to get the lid on. I still need to finish off the 12v wiring inside the box and the rest of the tractor, plus a little bit on the HV side.

PXL_20250328 ...

I think it's still mostly about wall chargers these days, but I'll be there on the Silent Classics stand all three days. This year I think we are planning to bring a Fiat 500 as always plus a Volvo P1800 with a zombie leaf drive train. Feel free to drop by and say hello if you are there.

Fellten ...

Dashboard PCBs arrived last week. Brightness on the green is a little too much but nothing we can't work around. Next I need to figure out making a custom facia plate.

Back on the road again! Made an attempt to swap front and rear spheres but it was a bit too tricky to get the rears off without dropping that subframe as well. So i've left it for now.

This time I managed to wire the heater correctly and so the new precharge resistor is still intact. I was able to ...

Would it be possible to change the plumbing for the spheres to be front and back rather than left and right? Or maybe even have a valve for each sphere? I'm pretty sure I heard of some people fitting TF suspension to their F in order to remove the hydrolastic all together but maybe that is going ...

Can you please confirm if correct HV orientation is the one on the pic here?
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I can tell you for certain having them the other way around doesn't work.

I think one reason for the mix up was that I used a cable not from the MG heater originally, in this cable the red and blue are ...

With the worst of the winter probably over and the first top down drive of the year done I thought it would be a good time to install a cabin heater.

I'm using an MG water heater, slowly been preparing everything in the last few weeks so that I could get it installed all in one day. PXL_20250228 ...

RetroZero wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2025 11:57 am So you ditched the VAG charger set-up. You didn't get any further with it before pulling it all out?

No I didn't manage to get past basic charging. Didn't make much sense to carry on with it as the MG charger can do allot more in a smaller package and without the hassle of having to recode it.

Exciting news, which MG charger did you get? And how cheap is cheap? 😄 they're often foe silly money (the ones with V2L) from what I've seen on the 'bay


EP2CCU6625A from the MG5. Made a low ball offer of £200 and it got accepted. Had to spend almost that much again though on an MG CCS socket as ...

So feels like not that much has changed looking at the last photo. However there have been some pretty big changes in design.
Picked up an MG V2L charger over the holidays for cheap so I've removed the Leaf DC-DC and also the Cayenne charger. V2L is a valuable utility on the farm, almost every week ...

My setup is an Outlander Motor direct drive into the original PG1 gearbox. In my first setup I kept the gearstick and experimented with gear shifting, with no regen. I found that upshifting was possible, but you had to wait for the motor to spool down a little before it would engage.

Downshifting ...

I've managed to figure out where most of the chassis brackets were meant to go in the last couple of weeks so it's looking a bit more like a complete rolling chassis now. Steering box is going on next week when the bolts arrive as well as the rear shocks.

I did a small mock up of the transfer box ...