Continuing with Lee's suggest Lamp load to test the Controller, I 've now made two enhancements to the Honda Civic conversion...
1) Since all my EV conversion work is in the driveway at night and the car runs on 120 VDC, I painted the hood completely white on the bottom and mounted two 60W equivalent LED bulbs on it. Now when the hood is up, not only is there plenty of light (that can run on an extension cord OR the 120v battery pack with a flip of the switch. The reflected light from the hood gives 100% all around daytine type visibility, everywhere under the hood NOT the harsh shadowy work under spot lights. Wow is it great to be flooded in smooth light from all directions. 2) And then since the 5000W theater lights worked so well as a nice dummy load, and since there is SO much room under the hood, I am mounting these lights, 3 banks of three 600W bulbs behind where the engine was, pointing up and back at the hood when it is up. So now when I want to make a point, I can just open the hood, woo-woo the go pedal and attract crowds from hundreds of yards away. I think I may leave the dimable LED's connected to the motor all the time. Even with the hood closed. The woo-woo illumination coming from under the hood on the ground below, through the grill and the wheel wells and hood cracks should leave no doubt that its an EV under the hood. What's the use having an EV unless you can make sure everyone sees it is electric... Oh, the last thing then, is the flux capacitor... Haven't quite figured out where to put it yet. Bob, WB4APR On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Robert Bruninga <[email protected]> wrote: > To quote a 1931 move... ITS ALIVE! > > I love the simplicity of this Honda Civic conversion. WIth only an analog > voltemeter (I hate the near infinite impedance of DVM's for > troubleshooting dirty, ugly stuff), I'm only one more bug away from the > annual drive around the block. > > Tonight found: 1) Perfectly good brake pedal swich was INOP. 2) Corrosion > and bad connections on many push-on connections on a 12v relay. 3) Relay > was bad (opened it up and cleaned contacts), 4) Accelerator pedal micro > switch was stuck. 5) No 12v power to controller from Ignition switch. > > Bypassed #5 and it came alive! And in a great Frankenstein way as my 5000 > watt theater lamp (hooked up instead of the motor) lit up the house and > yard in a woo-woo way with the accelerator! What fun. > > And that is why I will retire and go to my grave with a conversion... So > I can always fix it. > > Bob > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Robert Bruninga <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Finally, Back to Lead acid and a FOUR WIRE EV! (Something I can >> maintain)! (4 wires, means 2 from the battery, and 2 to the motor and a >> controller in the middle. Done)... >> >> I have given up on modern EV's (two THINKs) who are BRICKS because the >> computer in them thinks something is wrong and they want to "call home" >> but there is no "home to call" (they are out of business). And I HATE >> trying to hack an unknown embedded CPU... I prefer turning wrenches and >> pots.... >> >> Anyway, I pulled my old converted Honda Civic (ten Lead Acid) out of the >> weeds last night and of course, having been sitting for at least two >> years, the batteries were dead and would not take a charge form the >> installed charger. SO I moved through each one with a small parallel 12v >> battery and a normal 12v charger. The battery helped convince the >> portable 12v charger that there was a working battery until the charge got >> started, then I could move on to the next battery. >> >> Now they are all hissing and bubbling away. And after maybe 12 hours (on >> and off, since I only charge while I am nearby and can monitor them), >> anyway now, the charge is finally beginning to taper from the original >> 9.2A down to about 7A. Then I had to come to work. Maybe this evening >> they will reach full charge and the charge will further taper. >> >> All the cells had water over the plates, some higher than others, so I now >> have them all topped off. >> >> I know that long-term sulfation is a problem. But these batteries were >> close to charged when they were abandoned more than a year ago. So they >> did not start their long abandonment discharged, but did so over time. >> >> So any opinions on recovery? >> >> Bob >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160613/edf0fa7b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
