snelly1 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2024 5:18 pm SimpBMS V2.3 on a vw PASSAT GTE HIGH VOLTAGE HYBRID BATTERY 3Q0804842F 13kw

How did it work out for you?

The hooks are for tie downs to a flatbed or a trailer. Tow truck drivers usually use things like control arms or stick T hooks into frame holes which distorts the frame and adds a spot for rust to start. Sometimes they use halfshafts, swaybars, etc. Its nice that the engineers thought about adding ...

I think those hooks are towing arrangement because your car has alu suspension and if towing truck would hook subaru by the suspension arms it could damage them. So the hooks... if you would cut or change them you need to leave at least one of them usable or weld/bolt another towing arrangement to ...

if I may suggest... you can make a front cross brace as I did in Mazda and Megane and then suspend third motor mount from the top. Usually that mount simply supports the motor weight and doesn't interact with torque... so using 6mm metal screws is enough.
edit: Or if you want to be absolutely ...

Got Škoda Octavia IV Plug in Hybrid battery pack.

I have an Hall effect sensor from 2016 Nissan Leaf 30kWh battery. It was connected directly to Service disconnect socket. Difference between the older one from the first Gregskis picture here is that older hall sensor has only 3 pins. 30kWh battery one has 4 pins.

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Sensor has a code ...

I tested the battery and contactor control module (E-box) 5WA915183B on the table and it works strangely. If I turn the lab supply on then it does something a few seconds consumes about 400mA and then switches itself off and doesn't turn on anymore. When its not powered some time (maybe a day) then ...

RetroZero wrote: ↑Thu Aug 14, 2025 7:23 pm Its quite easy. If I can do it, so can you....
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Thank you for encouraging but your link didn't work.

Is it possible with openinverter software use this Leaf hall effect sensor as main current measuring device instead of Isabellenütten?

I have the same control unit with code 5WA915183B from Škoda Octavia IV PHEV (battery manufactured 2020)
Seems like control units J840 Battery Regulation Control Unit and J497 Module Monitor Control Unit
are integrated into one control unit under the contactor box so called ebox

my battery ...

No, this is from the internal battery can, it'll not work on the external can.

Thank you for clarifying that! Why doesn't it work on external CAN? What to do, to get it working?
Why doesn't the Zombieverter control thru external CAN communications?

Right now I am thinking of opening the pack ...

I tried the code for controlling the contactors from CAN lines outside the pack, but nothing happened. Does it even work like that? Do I have to get inside of the pack on internal CAN to make it work?
I think there might be that Škoda Octavia IV has other CAN commands.

RetroZero wrote: ↑Tue Aug 12, 2025 11:04 am Can you connect with a savvycan set-up and see what CAN IDs you get returning and log them? I'm looking for info for 0x124....

Sorry don't have savvycan yet. Have to find out how to get it and make work.

Yes, but that is just the contactor box which is on an internal CAN bus. Just like the battery modules also on an internal CAN bus.

The Battery controller/BMS master is connected to those two CAN busses and then connected to external connector the rest of the car.


Thank you! If Zombie VCU ...

tom91 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 8:22 pm Do you have CAN logs to reverse engineer this?

No I don't have CAN logs. I read the Zombie supported list and I hope that this VW EBOX is what's inside this hybrid battery.

Would you mind to share your progress so far? Have you found battery pack, were you able to determine it's condition?


I bought the battery from allegro.pl asked the seller to lower the price. He did but the shipping fee was kind of high. I chose as new battery as I could find. Got an Skoda ...

Today I did a small motor, coupler, and gearbox test. Tried first second and reverse gear. Used 800W ebike controller and two hoverboard batteries in parallel, amazing what those cheap things can do sensorless.

https://youtube.com/shorts/y6IysHnNvrk?si=pq1nh5NjRg1C0rIQ

At the moment it turns out ...

Buggy drives ok now. I am beginning to understand some of the openinverter parameters. We have to improve some motor mounts a little and maybe try gearbox oil pump also, at the moment it's not connected. Also I haven't connected the charging automation Auris board has some outputs but I haven't ...

I ordered VW 13kWh hybrid battery pack because it has water cooling and it should fit without modification into the trunk of my car.
According to this forum, VW battery measurements should be 950 X 600 X 200mm and the Subaru trunk width is 1100mm and lenght 960mm.
Damien has said in his videos and ...

Adapter plate and coupler done!
gearbox side

electric motor side
adatpter board attached to gearbox and onto the motor mounts
motor attached

Here is info on what it is controlling and what not https://openinverter.org/wiki/ZombieVer ... gers/DCDCs:

And there it says:
Chargers/DCDCs:
Nissan Leaf PDM (Charger and DCDC) Gen1,2 & 3

I have not tested myself yet but I am going to, maybe even this year!

golfdubcrazy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:59 pm hi its 950 x 600 x 200mm with the bump on the top going upto 250mm

Thank you! It fits into my Subaru boot!

I made a lasercut cardboard template to see if measurements are ok.

plasmacut the spacer out of 10mm steel

and that's how it looks

I made the coupler from Leaf reducer part where I had to cut input shaft shorter and turn a space for subaru clutch disk center piece

welded them together


thats how it looks on the subaru gearbox

Now need to work on the spline shaft coupler things