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You'll have the ultimate prepper truck. Doesn't need gas. Doesn't need oil changes. Doesn't need oil filters... on and on.
Get solar and charge it off the sun. Laugh as you pass by gas stations and people paying to fill up. |
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Maybe I missed it but, did you consider going with Armstrong (OEM) manual steering? Back in the day many trucks had that but I will admit power steering is nice. It's just a little more complicated for you. (Not that that ever stopped you. Ha.)
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Fun Fact: these rigs are just too heavy for manual steering |
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Like a surgeon, See your heart beat, one last time. :hm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJhw6Rwm_n0 |
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so since our son is home from Uni for the weekend I am using that as an excuse to stay quiet and clean this whole weekend so no cutting, drilling, or grinding
so it's time to fandangle with the Chevy Volt onboard battery charger, I put it off long enuff my logic went like this, hey you're converting a Chevy truck, wouldn't it be cool to use some electric Chevy parts on it... |
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this thing has more tantacles than a Syberian octopus, so we start with the one that runs from the onboard charger to the "traction" battery
traction is just a fancy way of saying the big high voltage battery pack this thing is incased in an aluminum pipe for you know Armageddon |
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I wasted many a beers trying to unpin that thing, as it proved futile, so I cut it in half and will offer 50% of the cable to the highest bidder, or the best dirty joke muszyngr at yahoo dot com
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my 8 track collection
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this next high voltage orange cable connects the onboard battery charger to the charge port where you plug the wall charger into
and it looks like the Barberians who pulled it, cut the proximity wires from the charge port, so I chased those down |
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and lastly I divorced the 12 volt battery leads (black and red wires that simply run to the regular car battery) from the CAN control side wires which control the charger, tell it when to charge and when not to type of thing
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here are the minimal components to bench test that charger (think running an engine in an engine stand)
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I got it working and I can see amps on the high voltage orange wire going into the battery, it reads 3.5 amps which is approximately half of what I have it set to ie 8 amps, but that's because I am on only 120 volts AC
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Don't know if you have entertained this thought or not. Lets peer into the future and let's say you pull up and there's an open charger at the Whole Foods and you plug in for a top off. Some tree hugger comes up and calls the cops and insists that you don't have the need or (right) to have your ancient old truck taking up (his or her) space.
I somehow have it in the back of my mind that you will have an uphill battle continually proving the existance of a vintage electric vehicle. Those people evidently have never heard about electric vehicles in the 1920s. |
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so far I have only heard of positive feedback from vintage electric car owners, everyone is like oh wow it's electric |
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Good to hear. In our area of the US, electric charging stations are few and far between. The recent push for EVs is not at all supported by the infrastructure. I guess you pretty much rely on your home charge and fight over the 2 plug ins at your local chain restaurant around here.
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Man, just got caught up here. You are way out in front on this. How did you go about acquiring the knowledge?
Small q, just curiosity, didn't you already have a charger from a Tesla and now you have another one from a Volt? Our am I misremembering? #3, will you be touching up the purple soon? ; ) Great progress man. Cool to see. |
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here is a direct link to the first of his videos in a short series on this very Lexus transmission, that's how it all began for me Lexus Toyota Hybrid Transmission Project 01 : Introduction |
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after actually getting the Tesla charger to work, I decided to go out and buy a Chevy Volt (first generation charger and a matching converter) then I found out there was a second generation set so I bought those two units as well. YouTube video: Chevy Volt Onboard HV Battery Charger & DC-DC Converter (OBCM & APM) At this point you may attempt to sum up what I said by asking, so do you now have a total of THREE different chargers, to which I would simply respons, NO, I also went out and bought one from a Tesla Model 3, ha ha so I have a total of 4 different onboard battery chargers to choose from |
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Ok, I can only drive one truck at a time, and that hasn't stopped me from getting... uh, more than one... so no implied criticism, just curiosity. |
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Said no one, probably since 1995. No offense to anyone who might be a fan of graphic violets. |
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I learned a lot over the weekend, and today I had to rest my brain and do something with my hands....
Commence Operation Porcupine |
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the idea is a modular design that will put crane operators out of business
first we load up the bottom three cell modules (each weighing in at just under 30 lbs) |
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once those three are individually loaded and bolted up, we simply flip that batch over - right side up
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and now we are ready for the top batch
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and there we have it, "The Stack" configuration (genius I tell yah, genius!)
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now every battery pack has it's pros and cons, be it a Tesla pack, a Nissan Leaf, or this BMW 530e, and this one is no different, one of the downsides of it is these unobtanium proprietary high voltage cables, it is a real challenge to reconfigure the standard pack layout whilst utilizing only the stock high voltage cables
some like this one joins two cell modules very smartly.... (we like, we approve) |
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by Gregski » Mon May 02, 2022 7:57 pm
here is one BMW 530e battery pack (Embedded Fun Fact: which consists of six cell modules, unlike the 330e which only has five) reconfigured in The Stack Formation, unfortunately we are unable to complete this arrangement because we are one cable short, technically we have the cable but it is just too short to join Cell Module #2 to Cell Module #3 |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Battery LifterUpper (TM)
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I'm a Simple Man, I see a gap... and I fill it!
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yes we did run out of gas... (no literally)
but we recovered, and one side's done |
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and onto the other side, having the frame rails level now is a total game changer
man I love a clean canvas |
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alright, let's load 'em up proper
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