Is the PTO geared down 2.75:1? This could mean 18kw at the leaf motor, I think... Or are they considering that already? Or does the bailer ratio the PTO speed back up? There may be a way to gear down the motor more to bring motor speed up and power requirements down. Leaf motor can spin way faster ...

Sounds like the bailer needs it's own battery and maybe it's own leaf motor. 50kw is pretty massive, what's the run time look like for your needs? 50kw continuous or peak?


I am assuming it will be fairly continuous power for a baler. To be fair that big round baler is too big for my tractor pre ...

bexander wrote: ↑Sat Jul 12, 2025 10:30 am Very cool!



Would be very interesting to know how long the motor could sustain that amount of power...

Might need a bigger radiator that's for sure!

Finally done the first bit of actual hard work with the electric Leyland today. Had it on the hay rake rolling up for the baler. I was quite happy with the results. The power usage was really much lower than I was expecting. This isn't a small rake, a bit big for the tractor really given it will ...

You tested if it'll just DCDC with the PP resistor there? I connect PP to FOCCCI


I am pretty sure it will DC-DC fine without the CP and PP connected. I've been moving CP and PP to different places during testing and the DC-DC always seems to kick in.

My current setup has PP going to the ...

Bigpie wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:58 pm Does the gen2 care if anything is on the PP pin?

Yes I had to connect PP to the charge socket to get it to work.

Zombieverter board will work for that just fine. Plenty of documentation on here and the wiki as well for running a leaf setup.

The one that reads 0x57? So 87 decimal. Does it charge with 8.7A right now?
Or 0x5700 22272 mA?


I have some rather vague data from my notes. At the time I could only get AC current as that was easily read from the socket meter.

When everything else was 00, byte 6 would have the following ...

Had another play with the charger today.

Managed to cut down the messages required for charging to the following:
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I have yet to move this to the zombie test module to confirm. But it's looking promising so far.

I also think I have found the current limit message in 0x29C, the last ...

any opinions or recommendations welcome.


Sorry I only just noticed this thread.

I think once you get past 65v and into official HV territory you might and well go full 96s voltage as it makes it easier to find cheap compatible components. Leafs and Outlander motors are decent, cheap and easy ...

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 ...