Alex Beamer
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:26:18 -0700
2009
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Paul, Would it be possible to pull the temperatures from the battery temp sensors and the battery box airflow temp sensor and do programing to have those temperature show up on a palm pilot? Thanks, Alex Beamer Salem On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Paul Peavyhouse wrote: > Mostly...
Paul Peavyhouse
Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:39:29 -0700
2009
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Mostly just 26 voltages, 6 temperatures, airflow, and airflow temp. Basically, anything you can read from the Tech2. To be precise, the pack isn't sending the data; the truck is polling it. I fairly extensively reverse engineered most of the Tech2 protocol from Jan-Apr of this...
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Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:20:22 -0700
2009
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I recently purchased a GM S10 EV pickup and will be converting it soon to lithium batteries. Does anyone know what information the battery pack is sending to the truck communication bus? One person has indicated that the battery pack is only sending voltage and temperature for...
casey hartman
Tue, 12 May 2009 11:59:09 -0700
2009
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This is getting off topic for S10s but attached is output from a home energy monitoring project that I am building myself. It is still a work in progress, but it is a plot of rms voltage values for one day (5/9/09) that are proportional to current through one of my main 120v l...
Stephen Weitz
Tue, 12 May 2009 10:48:13 -0700
2009
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Begin forwarded message: > From: "Thomas W. Dowling" <[email removed]> > Date: April 20, 2009 9:57:21 PM PDT > To: "'Malcolm Field'" <[email removed]> > Cc: [email removed] > Subject: Re: [RAV4-EV] OT - TV Not Ecological > Reply-To: [email removed] > > The one I have was made...
Gil Dawson
Sun, 10 May 2009 09:56:38 -0700
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On May 10, 2009, at 8:49 A, Mike Gaylord wrote: > (Perhaps that's just another way of saying "exhibits poor Coulombic > efficiency"; I don't know what that phrase means, applied here.) Another way of describing "poor Coulombic efficiency" is that the NiMH S-10E has to run the...
Mike Gaylord
Sun, 10 May 2009 15:49:55 +0000
2009
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Yours is a good question, Pat. That perplexes me, too. Here's a thought: Although my S-10 was a Solectria conversion, my experience with charging those lead/acd batteries versus the NiMh was, timewise, that it took twice as long to get the lead ones back up, as opposed to the...
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Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:09:12 -0500
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Hello, My name is Michael Anzalone. Today I became the proud/concerned owner of a 1998 S-10 (VIN: 1GCDE14H9W8108930). The truck is not running, it has a dead pack. The previous owner told me that he replaced the native NiMH battery pack and some temperature sensors last year....
Dave Weininger
Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:09:03 -0700 (MST)
2009
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Hi Neil, > I'm having problems with the range on by NiMH truck, with a bat life > light on in as little as 12 miles. The problem gets worse when the > batteries are colder ... I think that the batteries were severely > degraded during the three months the vehicle was in the bo...
John Wilson
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:13:32 -0800
2009
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I need to sell my 1998 Chevy S-10 EV. I don't have a safe place to charge it here in San Francisco. It needs a good home to keep the batteries conditioned while awaiting a fix on the fire issue. It is in great shape and gets about 35 mile on hilly SF and my freeway driving. Ma...
John Wilson
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:31:33 -0800
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So, if done this way correctly, what is the cost and who can do it? How does one dispose of the NiMH batteries? On Dec 22, 2008, at 7:00 AM, [email removed] wrote: > Send S10-EV mailing list submissions to > [email removed] > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide...
Jeff Thomas
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:31:21 -0700
2008
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I have to concur with Paul on this question. There are additional items to address. Adding that if you have refitted from NiMH to PbA, you also need the software and tools to reprogram the BPCM to PbA battery chemistry. The existing charging capabilities of the EV1 drive syste...
Paul Peavyhouse
Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:15:52 -0600
2008
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Are you sure you are talking about a GM Factory 1997-1998 S10EV? The factory built trucks don't have the 2 batteries under the cab, nor the spare tire. I suspect you are talking about a slightly different beast, but that may make a big difference, such as is your vehicle even...
Mary Frances Heil
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:42:10 -0700
2008
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As nearly as I know there isn't a good lithium option out there. I have, however, converted from the original NiMH to lead acids. It's not an easy event the first time around. The second time around would not be difficult. Battery power/physical size is critical and I spent ma...
Paul Peavyhouse
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:04:22 -0800
2008
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I only know of two S10EVs that have caught since April this year: One in Bothell, WA and one in Burbank, CA. Please understand that I am just an individual owner of an S10EV and I am not condoning or sanctioning my opinions as safe; the following is just my personal opinion an...
John Wilson
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:17:02 -0800
2008
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Where I live in San Francisco, the streets are narrow and houses packed next to each other. I'm afraid that if charge it on the street, it poses a danger to my house and the neighbors. Given that 4 out of 58 of these have caught on fire since April this year, the odds that it...
Paul Peavyhouse
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:36:35 -0600
2008
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Personally, I think you should not plan to "long term" store the truck by disconnecting the HV. The NiMH batteries in these trucks will self-discharge in only a few weeks, so they need to be charged at least every two weeks, preferrably every week. You shouldn't fear the fire...
John Wilson
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:54:03 -0800
2008
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As a secondary buyer in May 2008 of a Chevy S-10 EV (and I never knew about the list serv), I just learned about the fire incidents and have parked my car away from my house and, thus, my charger. I'm electing not to drive it or charge it until the fire issue is resolved. The...
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Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:43:06 -0400
2008
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Didn't both the EV-1 and Rav-4EV have the ability to disable regen via a button? Would that be difficult to do using the circuit currently in discussion? -----Original Message----- From: Niel Nielsen <[email removed]> To: [email removed]; Don Ski <[email removed]>; Charles Shi...
Niel Nielsen
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:03:04 -0500
2008
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Dennis, Yeah, with 4100 pounds of vehicle weight and the tires inflated to 50 psi, the thing seems to coast quite well. I agree. Someone posted something a couple of years ago about the increase in range of the vehicle with the half-tonneau cover installed. As I remember, it w...
Niel Nielsen
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:18:02 -0500
2008
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Dennis, that's very interesting about the fan buffer preventing regen--thanks for the info. I wouldn't have guessed that the vehicle had a way to sense that the fan buffer was out, other than sensing that the coolant was too hot, and that wasn't the case here. It would be inte...
Paul Peavyhouse
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:04:38 -0700
2008
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FWIW, I just got off the phone with Jeff and had a very informative conversation with him. He has technically been on vacation in Oregon w/ spotty internet connectivity while following up on all of this. That said, he is serious when he encourages any EVBones cutomers w/ quest...
Paul Peavyhouse
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:59:03 -0700
2008
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The Seattle S10 was a native NIMH. It really doesn't matter much because the condition of most of these truck's batteries before Jeff gets to them is probably pretty bad, so he would probably recondition them all the same way, swapping out batteries as appropriate. I don't thi...
Gardner L Harris
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:25:05 -0700
2008
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I wish to thank Jeff for the time he has expended to ferret out this rather convoluted problem. My only question is were the vehicles that burned equipped with NiMH as they were assembled or are they some of those which were converted by EV Bones. It was my conception that the...
John Miller
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:10 -0600
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The first one mentions the EV1 (and even has a picture!), the second one is more general, about GM working with utilities to integrate plug in vehicles into a smart grid: Former GM CEO Stempel On the Future of Electric Cars http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121640867386365903.ht...
John Miller
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:27:25 -0600
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Former GM CEO Stempel On the Future of Electric Cars http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121640867386365903.html . Mr. Stempel believes in the idea of electric-drive cars - he uses the term "electric drive" to encompass both all-electric systems and plug-in hybrids. He gave the gr...
Paul Peavyhouse
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:52:09 -0700
2008
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Maybe whoever bought that Magnecharger (charger itself) for $700 off of ebay is someone that won't have a use for it and will fire-sale it for cheap! :) Pv On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:08 PM, <[email removed]> wrote: > This is the charge port you put the paddle in Ebay Item 2202...
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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:08:29 EDT
2008
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This is the charge port you put the paddle in Ebay Item 220257878825. Unfortunately these did sell for over 900 dollars last time he had them on eBay. It is true they were well over 2000 dollars list price when new. I posted this information before when they when these came up...
Steve Hawkins
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:43:36 -0600
2008
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D/C to D/C is the second order of the day. I have also found that the battery is not being supported by the DC/DC converter. I would assume that if the battery has a resting 12v level with the key-off, that with key-on that level should rise with the support of the DC/DC syste...
Niel Nielsen
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:07:55 -0500
2008
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I have a problem with the ACPM in my truck. It won't run the A/C compressor (I get a status line 2, compressor malfunction, compressor current low), and the DC-DC converter doesn't charge the 12 volt battery. I removed the PIM/ACPM and opened the ACPM, and nothing looked damag...