Richard Kelly
Wed, 30 May 2007 14:18:21 -0700
2007
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Would someone please advise on the correct amount of refrigerant to use in the '97 S10 Electric? There's a discrepancy between a label in my truck, which says 2.0 lbs, and my '97 factory service manual, which in at least two places, says 3.5 lbs. My mechanic pulled out 2.12 lb...
Jerry Pohorsky
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:43:06 -0700
2007
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Hi Josh, I had a similar problem - I awoke in the early AM and tried to go back to sleep. Instead of tossing and turning, I decided to turn on my PC and saw your email. I used to have the native NiMH truck and went through many of the same issues. The EV1 Dash was originally d...
Joshua Tomel
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:44:01 -0400
2007
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I can't sleep right now so instead of tossing and turning, I figure I'll just get some lingering questions out off my mind, and on to the list. 1. Now I have my EV1 Dash running with Palm M515 could somebody tell me what the boxed ratio means at the top of the digital SOC bar...
Chris Reeves
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
2007
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I'm having a charging problem with mt 97 S-10EV. I'm getting an E2 error on the charger. This was after a battery life and service now light. Is there anyone in the LA area with a scan tool who would be willing to help me? I'm in Burbank. Thanks for any help in advance. Chris...
Joshua Tomel
Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:14:50 -0500
2007
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Rich, Yeah I know, Jim Coate beat you to it. If you buy this: http://www.auterraweb.com/dyforpaun.html you could potentially save a few thousand on a scan tool and just use the Palm instead. I'm going to attempt it because if it doesn't work, if you look on the home page of th...
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Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:34:15 +0000
2007
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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
2007
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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
2007
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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
2007
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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
2007
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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...
Rayan Ghazal
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:41:01 -0800
2007
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Hello Everyone, We have a fault on our 1998 S-10 NiMH causing a "service now" caused by an overcharge on a new battery. All the variations of attempting a hard "reboot' to clear the faults has not worked. We need the help of a good citizen with a Tech 2 to clear the faults. Yo...
Niel Nielsen
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:25:40 -0600
2007
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The Ovonics NiMH batteries solved two problems that had plagued electric cars for decades: 1. Short range (low energy/weight ratio) 2. Short battery life (2-3 years life on lead-acid was not uncommon) The Ovonics NiMH had a energy/weight ratio that was about double of the lead...
Joshua Tomel
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:07:28 -0500
2007
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Hi all, I enter the new year with good news for northeastern S-10 owners, Jim Coate is a godsend for you. I personally want to thank him for all his due diligence with my truck and staying around for quite awhile to make sure the job got done. Here's what Jim did, He came down...
Paul Peavyhouse
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:05:20 -0800
2006
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FYI, you can fairly clearly see the 4 caps in the PIM in this photo: http://picasaweb.google.com/paul.peavyhouse/EVBones/photo#5002781962869735442 Pv On 12/11/06, Jeff Thomas <[email removed]> wrote: > > Well... I suppose it's time to explain this in some detail. > > I have di...
Jeff Thomas
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:43:19 -0700
2006
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Well... I suppose it's time to explain this in some detail. I have discussed this problem privately with some owners, and shown those who have visited the EV Bones facilities some of the carnage resulting from catastrophic filter capacitor failure. It's bad. I did not want to...
Adams, Lynn
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:43:20 -0700
2006
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Niel (and the group) The behavior you describe is similar to my truck in cold weather. I do notice the whine from the power steering and the motor, but it is not much different than in the summer. Neither are at an annoying level and are masked by the fuel fired heater. The cy...
Niel Nielsen
Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:13:41 -0600
2006
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Lynn, I'm a recent new owner of an S10-EV. I bought Jeff's 37th (I believe) rebuilt truck, and took delivery of it at the end of November. It's a '98 and has about 7000 miles on it. I'm very happy with it. Jeff did a great job with it, as usual. I am in the Chicago area. The w...
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Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:57:57 EST
2006
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Hello Jim Thanks for the information on your problem. Isn't great to have Jeff to contact for help. I will tell my story but I am not sure what happened yet. A couple of months ago I hooked up the charger and it blew up. I wired in another and after a short time well before th...
Adams, Lynn
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:11:35 -0700
2006
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Hi Jeff, Just though I'd send a note to let you know the truck is working fine. The truck handles very well in the snow. Tuesday night it was snowing when I went home, it took almost 2 hours and slow traffic on icy roads. Other trucks and cars were unable to go up hills, but t...
Gil Dawson
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:13:19 -0800
2006
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Hi, pete/Jim-- I trust that you will not mind my responding via these lists, but I think your question will be of interest to others, and the usefulness of my answer may be improved by the comments of others. These are the chargers that Tom referred to months ago. These charge...
Gil Dawson
Mon Aug 7 14:46:20 2006
2006
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Hi-- I've decided that this GM Tech 2 tool I borrowed from Eric has become reauired equipment for my truck, so I'm about to plunk down $2K on eBay for one of them. Before I do, I thought I'd check and see whether anyone on this list has one but now would prefer to have the mon...
Jerry Pohorsky
Fri Aug 4 22:41:26 2006
2006
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Hi Frank, I just checked with Ron Freund. He said that Bill Palter of Santa Cruz has one. You can get Bill's contact info from Ron at the meeting on Saturday. Adios, Jerry Pohorsky ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Chapman" <[email removed]> To: <[email removed]> Sent:...
Frank Chapman
Fri Aug 4 14:11:41 2006
2006
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My name is Frank Chapman and I own a 1997 Lead Acid S 10-EV. It decided to take a rest while I was on my way home last Sunday night. I had it trucked to my house in Sunnyvale where it is parked at the curb on temporary leave of absence. What I need is a GM Tech II scan tool to...
Gil Dawson
Tue Aug 1 15:25:56 2006
2006
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Hi-- At 2:14 AM -0400 7/31/06, Earl Adams wrote: >What happened to your truck? Our truck is sick. Below is the long version of what happened: Wednesday night I had a feeling something was wrong when the humming noise from the garage stopped around midnight. Sure enough, Thursd...
Tom Dowling
Wed Jun 21 01:10:58 2006
2006
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-----Original Message----- From: Rayan Ghazal [mailto:[email removed]] Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 11:25 AM To: [email removed] Subject: Re: tech 2 scan tool/ bay area Dear All, We recently purchased a 98 native NiMH S-10EV, and have been driving daily. Yesterday the "service...
Tom Dowling
Fri May 5 11:38:52 2006
2006
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A further comment on large-paddle inductive charger (LPI) deployment.... While redeploying LPIs to serve the specific needs (at home and work) of the very few S10E and other vehicle owners who can use them makes some sense, it doesn't make sense to mount a major effort to depl...
Tom Dowling
Fri May 5 08:08:52 2006
2006
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-----Original Message----- From: Tom Dowling [mailto:[email removed]] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 1:40 AM To: 'Jerry Pohorsky'; 'Claudine Jones'; '[email removed]' Subject: RE: [RAV4-EV] FW: LPI Magnecharger All true... On the other hand, the population of these trucks is fairl...
Jeff Thomas
Fri Apr 14 15:00:27 2006
2006
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Gentlemen, the NiMH charge profile is a real stickler for keeping batteries in balance, and will set non-catastrophic DTC's if the differential exceeds .5v between the highest and lowest battery at either beginning or end of charge. And will display the check vehicle error. GM...
List member
Fri Apr 14 14:15:07 2006
2006
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-----Original Message----- From: Richard Kelly [mailto:[email removed]] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 1:51 PM To: [email removed] Subject: Check vehicle display Hi group, I noticed Check Vehicle was displayed on my Gen1 charger this afternoon. Looks like the charge completed...
Tom Dowling
Sat Nov 19 15:36:48 2005
2005
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_____ From: [email removed] [mailto:[email removed]] On Behalf Of Thomas Drake Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:34 AM To: [email removed] Subject: S10E has been sold.... Truck has been sold. (Originally posted in April.) Here are the details. =============== [S10-EV] FOR S...