My Dusty 71 GMCe Electruck

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Reason #7 why I like to buy the factory OEM wire harnesses: you get to harvest quality automotive grade wires out of them and recoup some of your moneys


this was a grade score, 9 ten foot long wires in a variety of colors

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with the charging automated, there was no more need for the laptop, so how will we see the charging progress?

Time for a Nextion display

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Oh no it's too small! (where have I heard that before?)

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so here I am trying to figure it out how to hook it up in place of the little red EPS8266 WiFi card, this thing literally only needs one wire to send the data on

and prototyping the display

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finally I figured it out and here it is getting it's 3.3 volts, ground, and the Tx (Transmit) signal from the VCU Vehicle Control Unit, how cool is that

here's a link to a short video of it in action: Electric Chevy GMCe Truck Charging With Nextion Display

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well after looking for the center AC Tejas Long Horn vent thingie for months, I finally found it in the last place I looked

so I decided to paint it black and put it back

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well that didn't look quite right without it's grille so I decided to shove the little 2.4" Nextion display in there so that at a glance we could tell how late we was gonna be to the next place we need to drive to on the account of charging this electric truck

using only the finest of scrap plastic, literally found on the side of the road:

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and from the back seat it's gonna look great

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So I have done did a ton of software coding and cleaning up all the stolen code to make it look like I wrote it, and ....

My Red circuit the one that is supposed to be always on, aint never on, lol !!!

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So I had to step away from all the wiring and electronics, and focus on making things less green, liked this used cancer stick disposal

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ashtray: so before media blasting

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ashtray bracket: before media blasting

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ashtray: media blasted

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ashtray bracket: media blasted

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ashtray painted black

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ashtray bracket painted black

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now just gotta let the paint cure

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reserved for installed ashtray pics

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then I went after the headlight buckets, cause that grille aint gonna assemble itself

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I realize this is fascinating but we gotta show the Young Padawans what all goes into the Sport

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it's a massive amount of work, but it's worth it

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I don't know about you all, but I aint ever buying plastic LED's ever again, you try to solder some leads on their little flimzy terminals and you end up melting the plastic, who knew?

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Oh no he didn't

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and the other one...

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Alright, now what?