Forgot to add: In 2011 we had a meeting with the Leaf's Chief Engineer; Hidetoshi Kadota, and I explained this problem and asked why no heat pump? So in 2013 they rolled out a heat pump, and on the base models added a switch to disable the PTC coolant heater. So only 2011 & 2012 models suffer from this.
On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM (-Phil-) <p...@ingineerix.com> wrote: > Pre 2013 has a serious problem where the liquid heater comes on if the > climate control is on at all, there was no way to stop this w/o completely > turning off the CC. I used to sell a mod to change this. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykjgnrZTF2c > > Sadly, the schematic and instructions were lost in a server crash, so no, > I can't share it, but it was basically just installing a transistor and a > few discretes inside the HVAC control module. We sold these as an advanced > replacement where we sent you a modified unit, and you sent the old one > back. Sadly, There isn't enough business anymore to make it work. If I > still had the schematic, I'd release it in the public domain. > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM Cor van de Water <cor.vandewa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I have a 2012 also and generally avoid using the PTC heater that warms up >> the liquid that flows through the heater core. >> I *so* wished that Nissan had skipped the liquid and instead heated the >> air directly, so we would have had *instant* heat in the cabin. >> I have the cold weather package on my Leaf and between the steering wheel >> heater and the seat heaters, we can stay reasonable comfortable on even >> longer trips (we regularly make 100 mi one way trips and since the car has >> 230 mi range when drive carefully, due to its 2019 62kWh pack, I prefer to >> make the entire 200 mi day trip on a single charge, so low accessory >> consumption is preferred. Heating the entire cabin would eat too much into >> the range. >> Cor. >> >> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025, 11:09 AM (-Phil-) via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >> >>> Heat pump was introduced in 2013 and equipped on SV or SL models. >>> Starting >>> in 2018 they made it optional on SV. I don't know what the recent models >>> are like. >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM redscooter via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > how do I know which years/ trims have the heating heat pump. >>> > >>> > like from 2013 - 2018 to 2019 to current >>> > >>> > is there certain trim models? >>> > >>> > were tried of a cold old 2012 >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org >>> > No other addresses in TO and CC fields >>> > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ >>> > >>> > >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: < >>> http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250109/0714eb2d/attachment.htm >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org >>> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >>> HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250109/23e2e95f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
