The amazing Dan Gelbart, in his MIT Prototyping for Engineers class he filmed but had the plug pulled on him, says that people who do R&D spend so much of their career doing and undoing fasteners, that you should use cases with keyholes and slots and spot welded captive hardware as much as possi...

With a simple mod we can fix both these problems I have a second inverter with its top off I will try to take pictures of if I can figure out exactly what to do based on your diagram. Also, does any of what you described require using new pins or telling the buck/boost what to do? Any code or softw...

ha ha, maybe OpenCAN, I luv that, and yes it is a can opener, but what is it actually called ? It's a P-38. (Oh, LOL, hence the hint that $38 to the person who identifies the P-38). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5n1MnBCTo Don't spread myths :) Damnit dude, why isn't this on the wiki? I feed the...

Added this to the Gen2 wiki, will have to go through this guy's other vids too. Dr. Kelly of WeberAuto he is not, but it's a differently useful kind of teardown.

Note that stainless is easily scratched by heavy metal parts, like ones you're flipping 12 times to get each face twice. I'd be lining that sink with drawer liner or a passenger side floormat or something. Also, the complete savage he is Greg uses the kitchen sink like he's some kind of bachelor. Co...

I tend to agree, but it's the nature of open source stuff Sure is. Even trying to put aside a selfish perspective, 6 options that are each 2/3 complete have zero value to a beginner. I'd rather 1 option that was 4x as thorough, for the same effort. I think tons more people would be converting vehic...

What method did you use?

I'm very interested in the results of this on the Gen2 or Gen3 side. All I can do is help document if it gets dumbed down enough for me to understand, and spread the word afterwards. One of the frustrations from the open-source-freeloader perspective is that no design seems to ever be taken to concl...

Just a general tip... the person asking the question should be the person who names the price. If you want to sell something, you name your price. If you approach some one on the street and ask to buy something of theirs, you name an offer to them. Otherwise, the person who wants to do the thing has...

POR15 has failed me three times on three different cars on three different projects: '68 Mustang engine bay, 74 Chevy C10 frame, 54 Chevy AD truck floors Having no firsthand experience, just knowing how well it's recommended, I'll hide behind the typical bodyshop excuses, that no coating will have ...

Sacred Rule: Never do a restoration and a conversion at the same time. Source: Everyone who warned me 5 years ago. Source2: Me, 5 years into a "summer project" ... Aww jeez. Holes in the floor are okay. Holes in the roof, or borderline not having a roof, a lot harder. With pitting that bad...

$750 BMW battery pack $200 Prius transmission (with electric motor inside of it) $50 Prius inverter (to take DC from the battery and provide AC to the motor) Hey, you've spent $1000 on battery, inverter, and motors. You've got a $1000 EV conversion. Everyone knows everything else is just "some...

Gregski wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:24 pmI wanted to transport these wet and dirty bits in my electric GMC pickup truck, but the wife insisted I use her recently detailed 2010 Honda Pilot:

no idea what this man is saying, but thought perhaps our Slavic/Korean viewers would appreciate it: 0:00 Hello friends from the YouTube channel, I am Ángel Unda. Here is a video of the hybrid system from hybrid vehicles. 0:10 In this case we are going to talk about the inverter-converter. Here we h...

temps droped to -3 or -4. I'm in a warmer part of Canada. It was -38'C here for the last week, -50'C with the windchill. Doesn't happen often, but, does happen. People still drove their EVs. There's reddit threads every storm of curious people asking about how EVs handle it. IIRC you'll get less po...

Gregski wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 5:02 pm

so please watch it and see if you agree I did earlier, watched the whole thing. Yes, he explains where to connect power to instead. My point is, I think this video was during an interim stage where Damien mis-attributed the reason for the failure to not bypassing the boost converter. He later disco...

Gregski wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:28 pmas of January 2024 it is nearly impossible to find motors and inverters in these cars in the local self service (you pull it) junkyards (in California anyways) they may have the vehicle, but the parts are long gone

Because of legislation change?

You were there two weeks ago and they had several.

I was considering it just from the point of view of reducing clutter and opening up some space inside the box to bridge/reroute the stock OEM battery connector to the proper bus bars where we need to inject the battery pack voltage to. So, as far as I understand, that's the part you don't need to d...

woutvanschaik wrote: ↑Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:54 pmeventually got it working. seems that the wiring of the toyota is a bit different.

Please make sure this ends up in the wiki!

It's a pick your poison type of thing. You'll run into problems either way. I've never heard anything good about the Olimex boards you use, and have heard nothing but good things about the D1 Minis (which I use). I believe Brattitude was making or going to make Olimex --> D1 converter adapters becau...

... some say his long form videos have been known to cure insomnia I'm 90 seconds in and he's succeeding in laying out a tarp, riveting. I'm 26 minutes in and he's succeeded in removing a seat! As I'm at the 50% mark, I presume it will take equally long to remove the other seat. ... "We'll try...

would love to hear more detail / see pics of how you gutted the buck boost converter please if possible Just FYI, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there's a need to remove the Buck/Boost converter. You just don't use it. Just that in his specific case, it was blown, so, had to be remo...

One of the frustrating things about not having a deep understanding of these things, is that I don't think anyone ever goes out and says the most basic overview type stuff. I think the Zombieverter just tells the OEM hardware what to do, according to original OEM CAN signals. So you can't get it to ...

Should be better administered than the former (but that is not hard at all :o How dare you. image.png There's still the Eval Bum website. Though I don't know what community supports it or steers people there, 2022 they were still getting a post every 2 weeks, last year only a post every 2 months. I...