Bill Palter
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:37:10 -0800
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How about finding some aftermarket seat heaters? Using them on my RAV4 really reduces the need to heat the cabin... Bill Quoting "Adams, Lynn" <[email removed]>: > Hi Jerry, > > Here in Colorado, the temperature is routinely well below freezing and > the heat pump cannot keep...
Jerry Pohorsky
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:36:58 -0800
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Hi Lynn, OK - I get it now. The liquid heater from MetricMind mentioned below works, but it sounds like a difficult and bulky installation. There is a much cheaper and simpler solution that I would recommend. I once had a Ford Escort EV that had the electric heater from KTA se...
Adams, Lynn
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:33:10 -0700
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Gil and others, I have found the best place to get up to date information is the Austin EV site at: http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/build that page will bring you to many links, one of which is the ev discussion mailing list: http://www.madkatz.com/ev/evlist.html One nice thin...
Adams, Lynn
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:01:27 -0700
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Hi Jerry, Here in Colorado, the temperature is routinely well below freezing and the heat pump cannot keep up when it get below freezing. (Even at 35-40F there is not a lot of heating from the heat pump, just not that much heat to pump). I've driven the S10E on my 44 mile comm...
Jeff Thomas
Wed, 7 Mar 2007 18:44:53 -0700
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Please don't install a spare under the box. Just place it in the bed. Cable lock it to one of the tie downs if you need to. If you install it under the bed, consider the "impact" of battery box damage in the event of a small rear ender. $$$$ Regards, Jeff On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:...
Joshua Tomel
Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:10:19 -0500
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I have the GM parts to install a spare tire under bed and want to do it. I figure if GM didn't have a problem installing a spare tire hoist behind the gas tank it shouldn't be any problem with the battery box either. I also realize this handicaps the trucks range carrying the...
Gil Dawson
Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:35:32 -0800
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My neighbor here in LA (Northeast sector) has expressed interest in converting his old Porsche 911 to electric drive. He has asked me what resources may be available. I haven't been keeping up with conversion issues myself, preferring to leave that level of mechanical tinkerin...
Joshua Tomel
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:30:00 -0500
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To the List, My truck has suffered what in all appearances looks to be a failure of the Power Inverter Module, which has immobilized my truck for the time being. The exact cause of why this happened is unknown but with the help of Jeff Thomas and Jim Coate will be back on the...
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Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:33:57 EST
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Gar This will not work with lead acid batteries. High amps with an AGM battery such as the Panasonic will kill it for sure. There are many false beliefs out there about restoring the capacity of lead acid batteries. Mostly because of a few positive results that are not based o...
Greg Brewsaugh
Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:24:12 -0800
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If it's the same thing I do with "dead" Nickel batteries to "revive" them, I hit them hard with as many amps as I think they can handle (without self destructing their internal wiring) for a few seconds. I use an RC car pack charger that puts out several (~4-5) amps at ~10 vol...
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Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:46:47 GMT
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Adams, Lynn
Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:22:52 -0700
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I have been playing with the heaters ( I have 2) over the past month trying to make one workinging model out of the two non-working models I no have. Here are my suggestions: 1) If it is still putting out heat and burning cleanly, leave it alone. The heater is the only thing I...
Tom Dowling
Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:31:53 -0800
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One-upmanship: they did use my entry, even though Felix didn't include it in his sample, which is a shortened version from the Bee Web site. Overall, the article is a remarkable response, very favorable. If you can get a copy of the 2/7/07 Sacramento Bee, do it! It's a collect...
Niel Nielsen
Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:52:39 -0600
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The vehicle I have was owned by the Los Angeles zoo, and spent its first 8 years there. It appears that it was used for only a year or two and developed a problem and got abandoned (at the zoo) for the next 6 years. Jeff rescued it and rebuilt it, and I'm the proud owner now....
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...
Tom Dowling
Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:39:41 -0800
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Interesting info posted to the CNG list.... Note that they quote DMV statistics saying that there are 78,000 electric vehicles registered in California. I'm sure this number included registered NEVs with plates, but it's still a higher number than I can recall seeing before. A...
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...
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...
Greg Brewsaugh
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:41:25 -0800
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What I sent: Mark, Your question is "Can you picture yourself behind the wheel of an electric-powered vehicle someday." Someday? I've been driving electric vehicles since 1997, with three GM EV1s, a Toyota RAV4 EV, and a Ford Ranger EV. I'm still driving the Ford and the Toyot...
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...