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Raglan's Electric Baboon
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Registrace 6. 05. 2015
Raglan Electric Bikes Limited. We sell, fix and modify electric bikes, electric bike kits, lithium batteries and electric vehicles in general. We're about saving the planet and improving society. We believe that having fun is one of the best ways of doing this and luckily playing with EVs is tonnes of fun =)
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Frunk Release Repair & Disillusionment
zhlédnutí 232Před 2 měsíci
2017 Tesla Model S Frunk Release Ghetto Repair Fears for the longevity of these machines Grumblings about my camera Count zip ties with me!
Test Run: Electric BMW 5 series with Lexus transmission & Prius inverter
zhlédnutí 322Před 8 měsíci
Uploading for a friend.. BMW 5 series with Lexus transmission & Prius inverter The yard run. Bmw 5 series. Lexus gs300h Transmission Prius gen3 Zvw30 inverter boost converter removed Arduino controlled using Damien Maguire based code Work on making Toyota Hybrid hardware work as EV powertrains. Most work done by the irrepressible George who doesn't have or want a CZcams account. A lot of suppor...
Test Setup: Electric BMW 5 series with Lexus transmission & Prius inverter
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Uploading for a friend.. BMW 5 series with Lexus transmission & Prius inverter The test set up. Bmw 5 series. Lexus gs300h Transmission Prius gen3 Zvw30 inverter boost converter removed Arduino controlled using Damien Maguire based code Work on making Toyota Hybrid hardware work as EV powertrains. Most work done by the irrepressible George who doesn't have or want a CZcams account. A lot of sup...
Prius Inverter Drives ANY* Toyota/Lexus Electric Motor
zhlédnutí 1,2KPřed rokem
*unconfirmed but all that have been tried have worked. A quick update from the Auckland boffins. Starting with a 'dead' ZVW30 Prius inverter, some Damian Macguire code & an Arduino they have figured out how to drive most any Toyota/Lexus electric motor. Tested & working so far: Q211 Lexus 210 from 450h & 300h Work on making Toyota Hybrid hardware work as EV powertrains. Most work done by the ir...
Greyborg for Sale! 3kW cromotor, Kelly Controller, BIG brakes, fun project!
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See Trademe listing here for details & to bid on it:
$100k car vs power saw-how to change Tesla Model S Suspension without dropping the battery
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$100k car vs power saw-how to change Tesla Model S Suspension without dropping the battery. On a Tesla Model S the front suspension's lower rear arm cannot be changed without getting the inner bolt out. The bolt cannot be got out without getting the BIG battery out. This is a problem if you need to change the suspension arm & don't have the money/equipment/desire to do pointless tasks... ....Le...
Steering Wheel Removal with Milwaukee Palm Chaos
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Steering Wheel Removal with Milwaukee Palm Chaos. Bad Hair Day too!
Tesla Headlight 'Repair'
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Make your lights symmetrical by spending a little time instead of lots of money. Thanks Shaun for the heads up & photos. If this did save you money & you're feeling generous, here are the charities I mention: www.givedirectly.org/ www.unhcr.org/ If you feel like making a better video to demonstrate this-shouldn't be hard!-please do. Please give Shaun credit & put the links to the two charities ...
Milwaukee Handheld Chaos
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If you can ride the dragon its awesome... Milwaukee M12 Palm Nailer (not recommended for founders of monotheistic religions)
Decoding the weird rivet numbering system
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What the hell are rivet part numbers all about? Here's a part of the answer!
Muck from Brass
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Some thoughts on how to improve Nespresso pod recycling but mainly just pod emptying. Check my other Nespresso pod video if you want to learn something- it's only 3 minutes! Watch this if you have insomnia.
Lazy Nespresso coffee pod waste separation
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Here you see me finding an easy way to separate the pod from the coffee and make them both easy to recycle. Nespresso coffee pods are bad for the environment, right? I don't think so. It's the mix of coffee grounds and aluminum that makes it hard to recycle either effectively. So separate them!
Explaining PWM aka Pulse Width Modulation
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This is technically part 2 of 'Hot Wire Rope Cutting' but ended up being more about explaining PWM aka Pulse Width Modulation. Power supply is an old PC power supply. PWM controller is a generic 10-50V 30A motor controller. I'm in New Zealand and got mine here: surplustronics.co.nz/products/6176-dc-motor-speed-control-pwm-hho-10v-50v-dc You can probably get it from your local nerd shop or Ali E.
Scientific and Technological Electrocar
zhlédnutí 139Před 2 lety
Scientific and Technological Electrocar
Tesla and the World's Most Expensive Lightbulb?
zhlédnutí 249Před 2 lety
Tesla and the World's Most Expensive Lightbulb?
How to donate money to Good Causes not banks? Help please.
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How to donate money to Good Causes not banks? Help please.
Inductance and Induced Voltage in Contactors and Coils
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Inductance and Induced Voltage in Contactors and Coils
Dangerous Modifications to Bow Street, Whāingaroa Raglan, New Zealand
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Dangerous Modifications to Bow Street, Whāingaroa Raglan, New Zealand
Cyclepath Nikau Park to Greenslade Road, Raglan
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Cyclepath Nikau Park to Greenslade Road, Raglan
Nowadays there's 4 piston hydraulic brakes with the Bafang 3 pin wires built in. A set from China is about £65 but, they only have Left/Front and Right/Rear in those 4 piston ones, bummer! I might get some and just swap the hoses around.
I'm wondering about the two conventional fuses that shunt the pyro fuse. (You removed them, and they're sitting in your round red tray of parts on the right.) My guess is that when the pyro fuse opens, the current is redirected to these two smaller fuses, which immediately blow and quench the arc. This is probably cheaper and easier than trying to quench the arc from the pyrofuse's own conductor. In mine they were each rated to break 100 kA. Fuses of this type are usually filled with a sand, probably silica (silicon dioxide) or magnesium oxide, to promote arc cooling and quenching.
Will it work without connecting the control leads? I mean if only the HV is connected to the battery, will it charge/discharge as a power storage? (In case the inverter is not compatible)
Can I make my ct200 awd?
It’s the fifth wire down not the fourth. Works a treat though, thanks!
Very cool. Is this running the stock control board in the Prius inverter with the lexus transmission?
Hi Are you still running the batrium. Thanks for sharing ✌🏼
Yes but it's wifi module has died recently so we're mainly guessing!
@@RaglansElectricBaboon Ok thanks for the fast reply mate
Only 5 years late to the video. A little more than sniffing the CAN, you can intervening and control the battery. Nice! Take care M.
مرحبا ممكن كتلوج لتوصيل بطارية 5 كيلو نضام 48 فولت لو سمحت
would it be possible to pull out all the G2 modules, and just replace the G1 ones in the G1 pack? Seemsto me that it would mostly be a mechanical swap, with the old wiring going back exactly the same
Great to see you back thanks
I'm a Dutch guy so hopefully my English is understandable. I did this myself this week en it's very easy. Take of de bumper a little. There were the bumper meets the fender you will see the cap with 3 screws. When that's of you will see the connector. Take it off and extract the pin with a needle or a thin sharp something. Push on the blank metal in the connector and you can pull out the little pin with the wire. Tape it and re assemble everything. I took me approximately 30 min.
Love your vids REB. You're a perpetual source of joy for me.
Do you have the long video for the successful process? Kinda very interesting that you managed easily
Seems I forgot to mention what was wrong. A couple of the terminals in the connector at the start of the video were not making good contact. Perhaps someone went in with multimeter probes too aggressively trying to diagnose the OTHER problem. The other problem was poorly fitted connector in the onboard charger's HVIL circuit. It was in place but not pushed down. Probably was like that from factory-I had to break the 'warranty void' stickers to get in! Hence this car having so few kms on it, it was likely a lemon from the start. Now its not a lemon but because it was flooded it remains a lemon in the eyes of the law. Life's a funny old thing...
4 years ago.. Wow..
So, what was the fix?
A couple of the terminals in the connector at the start of the video were not making good contact. Perhaps someone went in with multimeter probes too aggressively trying to diagnose the OTHER problem. The other problem was poorly fitted connector in the onboard charger's HVIL circuit. It was in place but not pushed down. Probably was like that from factory-I had to break the 'warranty void' stickers to get in! Hence this car having so few kms on it, it was likely a lemon from the start. Now its not a lemon but because it was flooded it remains a lemon in the eyes of the law. Life's a funny old thing...
@@RaglansElectricBaboon Thanks for the follow-up! Nice to see it's working! So no HVIL problems in the Invertor/HVJB - nice.
If anyone has heard of a hack for the Highlander hybrid inverter, I'd love to know! I have to believe that the I/O signal names are very similar, if not the same. I've often considered turning my 2008 Highlander Limited (electric AWD) into an EV if the ICE ever gives us problems... though at 310k miles now, no smoke and burns zero oil... it might not ever die! Still though, I have a couple of the FWD Highlander inverters that I'd like to get working... I have an i3 motor sitting around, and would like to get the HiHy inverter to run it.
What many people don’t realize is for home use, LFP batteries are ideal. You can charge to 100% without increasing degradation and they provide many more cycles.
Interesting seeing what's in these. I now have 2 resu 6.5 48v plugged in to a sungrow hybrid. 7 cells is 28v so mine must be running 2 "packs" in series for 56v peak which matches the inverters readings. Both of mine are not on the recall list.
Just looking at them I bought some for a brand new Leaf zd1 can't wait to scrape it
She didn't like them so they had to go I don't like your attitude buddy why didn't you just raise them up a little bit why didn't she compromise with that I'm only joking😂
E6 is the taxi/ride share model started in 2016. It’s built for heavy usage, many with over four hundred thousand miles on original battery are on the road. Chinese taxi driver typically replaces a new car every five years and about 440k miles.
I am guessing the two large purple components are ultra-capacitors to fire the explosive charge. Extra fault protection in case the system doesn't have the current to blow the fuse.
I think they're lithium metal primary (nonrechargeable) batteries. Two in series would give roughly the voltage he sees across the pyro initiator plug when the unit detected an overcurrent. These apparently reach their shelf life after 8-9 years and require an overly expensive fuse replacement.
@@philkarn1761 I would like to know this as I have a 2015 Model S. Is my "Relay" going to "die" soon? I could fix it myself if that was the case.
@@philkarn1761 It looks like you are right based on the warning symbol on the devices. I cant quite get my phone to read the QR code from the video.
@@stuartgray5877 I got the warning a few weeks ago on my 2015 S and just had it replaced. Annoyed I had to pay for it.
Whta is the monitor device name that tesla used... And the name of the second ic
I want to buy one. Help me out.
You wonder how the diode traps the spikes in the wrong direction - The coil first tries to keep the current going in the direction it has built up and the voltage accross it collapses and reverses as it tries to do so, with a voltage proportional to the rate of current change. If there is no diode, this voltage charges the capacitance of the winding and any capacitance of the surrounding wires, amd as the capacitor charges to maximum, the coil current falls to zero. But then the capacitor discharges, building up current the other way in the inductor... And rather as a spring (capacitor) and a weight ( inductor), what you actually get is a 'twang' of oscillation of both positive and negative that dies away as energy slops about between poetntial energy (voltage on capacitance) and kinetic energy (current flowing in incuctance). The scope is not zoomed in enough to do it justice. But if you take all the energy out of the systemn on the first half cycle with the diode, there is no charged capacitor to drive the next reversal, so it all stops at half to 3/4 of a volt, which is the diode turn-on voltage. You also often see a series resistor and a capacitor to dampen the oscillations when you do not have a DC system and a diode would not do on AC mains.
Huh, curious. I like the carpenters approach. I'm looking at mounting with a dedicated bracket but this will be option 2. Thanks
Thanks & good luck. I have tools to work with wood and so that's what I used! It lasted years like that-I sold the bike maybe 2 years ago to a courier company and it still had the same mount :)
hi do you know how can I repair a blown D15120 ic chip, I tried replace with a good one, insted repair one I bricked two LBC
Sorry I'm not familiar with that. I'd suggest looking for vids from people who are good at board repair. I'm better at board destruction :-(
where can i buy this switch?
Can I get your contact on WhatsApp for help. I unboxed my box and messed up the connections and I need your guide. Maybe a picture can do.
Did you ever build anything with the LG cells? I have 3 lg Resu10h batteries that I got my hands on for free.
I put the battery back together and used it as LG intended! Nice score, what are you planning for yours?
74 P that means there is no individual cell monitoring, those 74cells cannot be distinguished from each other, they are basically treated as one cell, at the moment there is no way around that, no ev maker has solved that issue. 74 divide 444 cells means less than 20% of the pack is monitored in reality......interesting is it not. And yes it is a work of art.
Yes, because they are connected in parallel they are effectively 'one big cell' that just happens to be spread out into 74 separate containers. They will behave identically so they don't need individual monitoring. What this method has over something like the Leaf pouch cells or the 'blade batteries' is that if there is a fault in one of the cells you don't lose the whole series. Its connector acts as a fuse, burns out and disconnects the problem cell from the rest of the cells. So you lose 1/74th of your capacity rather than all of it. You almost certainly avoid a fire too. Yes, it is a work of art.
yes a work of art, but what about if a cell fails and it doesn't burn out the thin fuse wire? Cells do fail for varous reasons and few involve an overcurrent event. Lets say a cell gets high resistance for whatever reason, lets say the SEI layer gets thick rather quickly and internal resistance goes up, that cell will tend to deliver less amps and will get hotter during charge. My point is all those cells in parallel are pretty much unmonotored, apart from knowing the total voltage and additive internal resistance.........my point is there is no inidvidual cell monitoring, alot of people say these packs are monitored at a cell leve but they are not. Lets say this cell gets very high resistance and during charging or discharging gets hot enough to catch fire, how will you know it is going to happen? @@RaglansElectricBaboon
Very useful video to follow for 3 tesla model s modules i just purchased
Great stuff… Is this using the factory Prius logic board? I’ll be curious to see what the limits of that inverter are with the bigger gearbox.
I believe so. Hopefully George will confirm. Yes, it's cool. I want to see it running a Prius. Full EV conversion on a Prius seems like it would be neat & there's loads of donors out there :)
Too noisy for my taste ;)
Thank you for this video. Can you ask for for shure where this cable i located? Thank you
where are you connecting the FAULT line on the Arduino and 4.7k ohm resistor to VCC? per this diagram cdn.hackaday.io/files/10098432032832/wiring.pdf
Any update on this?
Hai Sir I have a LG Chem Resu 10H , battery is down from 2017 what should be the dc voltage over the fuses on top !
Victorian England?
I can't change the speed nor the level on the mate x 250w! Is there a solution? Thanks
Can I increase the size of 12v battery in byd e6?
hey fella do you think this can be used building frames i.e wall frames etc. or will it throw the frame out (vibration etc) What you think ? :) Most vids ive seen show it driving into a piece of wood or driving in joist hangers? not seen how it works on frames as such. thx
You could use it for that but it would be tedious. A nailgun is what you want there!
@@RaglansElectricBaboon cheers
There is a predefined lifespan of the fuse. I guess about 8 years as all of a sudden, loads of 2016 Model S cars have got the warning on the dash to replace the fuse. It's not covered by the battery warranty apparently. Just quoted £287.28 to replace it but at least it will be replaced with the newer generation that doesn't have a battery and instead draws power from the traction battery through the fuse itself.
And Lo, my 8 year old model S has a warning on the screen that the fuse must be replaced. As the batteries go flat, the set-point reduces and it can cause a false trip. Or possibly no trip at all.
Where may I find the modified Code and more info? Thanks!
I'm just the guy with the CZcams account & don't have any hands-on experience of the gear or code. The coder says this is the latest & will update it when they get feedback from the guy in the workshop. The guy in the workshop is great with experiments but not so good with github or CZcams! github.com/evbuilder/Lexus-GS450H-Inverter-Controller/tree/Prius/PriusHacking.ino
The guy in the workshop here, I revisited the video, and tried to get to the code on github for ongoing development. Any tips for how to find the code, got to evbuilders topic on github, but couldn't find access to the code. Perhaps from a computer not a cellphone may help.
I heated with a heat gun upto about 150C then dropped into cold water. With a little tapping you can slide the magnet out.
You got more details on the additional components used with the Due and code changes needed?
See comment on other thread! Thanks.
Hi There, I appreciate this is a few years ago but wonder if you are able to give me any pointers with mine! I have an LDU that I am putting in a conversion project. It spun up ok out of the car on 36v but with it installed properly ad 250v to it it now gives OVERCURRENT error. I checked with a meter and have continuity from the Battery negative HV cable to one of the 3 phases. I'm not sure whether to attempt to repair? Does it seem straightforward enough to either swap a complete inverter or change 1 of the 3 phase modules? Be grateful for your thoughts as it seems you went fairly deep into it! Cheers
All I did was switch it on & off sorry. I'm not remotely qualified to help :(