Ken
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:33:24 -0800
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Hello everyone, Please see the message below. Charles Whalen of the Florida EAA is assisting a Florida utility in looking for NiMH S10-EV's. While the request was for NiMH vehicles, it is possible there also may be an interest in an evbones.com conversion of a PbA vehicle to N...
The Johnsens
Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:12:40 -0800
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Mike, I sympathize with your plight. Your experience with the California law is similar to the frustration I found when my accountant told me the federal tax credit for ZEVs had to be on new vehicles that were on a specific list. Used S-10s don't count. In Washington State we...
Greg Brewsaugh
Mon, 5 Feb 2007 07:26:11 -0800
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Can you get it officially inspected and verified as a zev by your local dmv? Arming yourself with evidence from their own organization may help convince the powers-that-be. Just a thought... Greg Brewsaugh PV + 3EVs in HB On 2/4/07, Joshua Tomel <[email removed]> wrote: > > To...
Joshua Tomel
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:09:22 -0500
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To the list, Here in New York I can't get HOV stickers for my 1998 S10 EV and it is like most of the others here: a full production model not a conversion. I called up the New York State DMV Clean Pass program manager to ask why my fully electric vehicle doesn't meet their req...
Mike Gaylord
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:18:37 +0000
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Relating to the white HOV stickers: I had a wrangle with a bureaucrat in the California Air Resources Board office that issues those permits, who seemed to take great pleasure in telling me that my Solectria S-10 was NOT on his list of "approved" vehicles, and furthermore, tha...
List member
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:34:15 +0000
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Howdy, I no longer have an S-10E or an EV1, but I did lease both in the past and used the EV1 Dash program with both. I have had good luck with the obsolete Palm III although I needed to upgrade the OS to 4.1 first - otherwise I would get a fatal error upon launching the appli...
Jeff Thomas
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:53:22 -0700
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Hi, The palm model is any M500 series. The model I typically provided in the past is the M515 color. The EV1 app is specific to this older palm series, as Peter has modified the RS-232 comm port to operate as a PWM receiver for the class2 data stream. The port reconfiguration...
Paul Peavyhouse
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:14:44 -0800
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I read that about a "raw" mode, and that he has a java app to post process and graph info downloaded from the palm. That sounds really neat and maybe useful, but I can't figure out how to get to raw mode. Joshua Tomel was asking what Palm one needs to run EV1Dash. I honestly c...
Bill Palter
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:16:14 -0800
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Turns out that there are 2 different data protocols that the truck uses, only one of them is monitored by EV1Dash, the tech II tool uses both.. I have been meaning to spend some time reverese engineer it...... Bill Quoting Niel Nielsen <[email removed]>: > Paul, > > I read abo...
Niel Nielsen
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:35:42 -0600
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Paul, I read about the S10-EV data stream at Ohler's website. Here's the link: http://www.ohler.com/ev/ev1/DataStream.html He's using unidirectional communications (from the truck to the Palm only). It looks like Ohler figured out about 1/4 of the data in the stream. I've had...
Paul Peavyhouse
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:41:25 -0800
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Thanks for the info Niel. I already have a Palm hooked up to S10EV w/ the converter running EV1Dash just fine. I am pulling down the free Palm OS Developer Suite right now (http://www.access-company.com/developers/) and will start tinkering with it over the next few weeks to l...
Niel Nielsen
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:02:45 -0600
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It's interesting that I was looking at the very same thing (the EV1 dash) last night as well. Here's what I as able to find out last night: The code for the EV1 dash was written in C. It is compiled by a compiler/integrated development environment into native code for the Palm...
Gil Dawson
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:59:24 -0800
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Hi, Paul-- ChargerFinder and EVChargerNews use identical data. The data base is kept in Filemaker, with many Filemaker scripts written by Tom. Portions are updated by our four regional editors and combined into a master file on a roughly monthly cycle. Updates to the EVCharger...
Niel Nielsen
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:10:52 -0600
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A normal 120 volt AC outlet is fused (by a circuit breaker) at 15 amps on the "hot" wire. 15 amps times 120 volts is 1800 watts, or 1.8 KW. Combining two 120 volt outlets that are on opposite phases would give you 15 amps at 240 volts. 15 times 240 is 3600 watts, or 3.6 KW. Wh...
Mike Kane
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:53:51 -0800 (PST)
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Paul if you look at the specs for the adapter in question, it converts two 30A 120V (3600W ea) circuits to one 50A 120V (7200W) circuit. Unfortunately there's no free lunch. Mike --- Paul Peavyhouse <[email removed]> wrote: > Thanks for the links Mike! > > I don't quite unders...
Mike Kane
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:49:56 -0800 (PST)
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Gil, If I remember right the expensive ones do have some user instrumentation (just a couple LEDs on the front to tell you if it's working or there's a fault). Basically the way I understand it they check for current on both legs of the adapter before they will allow any curre...
Gil Dawson
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:42:35 -0800
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At 3:07 P -0800 1/29/07, Paul Peavyhouse wrote: >How is that possible? Power from the power company mains comes to most any facility -- your house, my house, the shore dock -- as 240 volts on three wires: two hots and a neutral. The voltage between the two hots is 240 volts. T...
Paul Peavyhouse
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:07:56 -0800
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Thanks for the links Mike! I don't quite understand the math, but I think this is very similar to what I was thinking about: http://www.discountmarinesupplies.com/Shorepower_Adapters-MARINCO_REVERSE_Y_ADAPTER_30A_TO_50A.html With one of these (and some knowledge of the breaker...
Mike Kane
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:07:30 -0800 (PST)
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Actually, There are a number of Boating products to do exactly this. They have circuitry to ensure they are combining equivalent phase lines, and to ensure that they don't put power out on unconnected male connectors. Here's a few samples. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=M...
Paul Peavyhouse
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:48:57 -0800
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Very nice project, very similar to what I was hoping to put together...before I knew yours existed! Your site seems to have data almost exclusively for CA. Does your db have the ability to work nation-wide or world-wide? How do you submit new charger sites? Through EVChargerNe...
Jim Coate
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:01:24 -0500
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There is no real way to gang up outlets to increase the current limit. And while certain wiring arrangements might allow the voltage to be doubled, it is a recipe for disaster with the hazards involved. Sorry. Paul Peavyhouse wrote: > Is there a way to take 2 120V outlets and...
Paul Peavyhouse
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:16:48 -0800
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Is there a way to take 2 120V outlets and put one of them out of phase so that they can be combined for a total of 240V? If taken from a standard outlet, I take it the result would still be limited to ~15A. Would there be a way to combine 4 outlets to create a 240V 30A power s...
Gil Dawson
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:03:26 -0800
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At 12:03 P -0800 1/24/07, Gil Dawson wrote: >I'd appreciate somebody explaining it to me. Or suggesting someone >who might can. At 1:16 P -0800 1/24/07, Park, Youngchul wrote: >Here is a starting point. >http://www.powerdesigners.com/InfoWeb/design_center/articles/DC-DC/conver...
Stephen Weitz
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:49:50 -0800
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Gil, The question you are asking, I think, is similar to the conversion of DC to AC back to DC. In AC the voltage is quite variable over time and yet it is possible to do the conversion to DC. I would think the situation you are describing with capacitors is easier than AC whe...
Gil Dawson
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:03:49 -0800
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This news about ultracapacitors is huge. Never mind the details, the notion of using capacitors instead of batteries is very attractive: capacitors don't care how fast you charge them or discharge them, they don't use up any energy themselves, but simply store it. They don't g...
Stephen Weitz
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:46:25 -0800
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I did see our beloved trucks in WKtEC. They just did not point them out or name them. Would have been nice. Stephen On Dec 12, 2006, at 1:34 PM, Joshua Tomel wrote: > Jeff, > You make a point to bring up what needs to be said at the > right > time. Case in point, since my only...
Paul Peavyhouse
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:35:12 -0800
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I will second that the S10 EV was also completely unknown to me until I stumbled across one on ebay (being sold by evbones...a rarity to see them on ebay). I helped to build and race Montana State University's solarcar entry in to GM's 1995's SunRayce. In 1995 the energy was h...
Joshua Tomel
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:34:28 -0500
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Jeff, You make a point to bring up what needs to be said at the right time. Case in point, since my only contact to the vigil is second hand press releases and of course WKtEC, I feel I should just bring up thoughts since seeing the film and the DVD extras. First the cornersto...
List member
Sun Aug 20 02:45:08 2006
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I can't believe these chargers weren't crushed along with the EV1s themselves. The lead trucks I understand were never equipped with them but if I had the brackets too, I would not be adverse to drilling holes in the right places. Of course since my truck has a permanently att...
Jim Coate
Fri Aug 18 13:16:44 2006
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It is the Electric Vehicle Discussion List, an e-mail list of all things (mostly) EV related... AC systems, DC systems, conversions, factory built, drag racers, commuters, etc. Not nearly as focused as this S-10 list, and often has 50-100 postings per day so can be hard to kee...