Gardner L Harris
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:33:31 -0700
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TWIMC: I would like to know from each of the affected owners if the vehicles were being charged on a GM MagnaCharger or a Toyota TAL. It is my belief that the TAL charger which supplies no after-charge support to the vehicle specifically battery cooling battery cooling is the...
Lloyd Campbell
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:59:41 -0500
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Does this warning apply only to the NIMH trucks or are the PBA's also susceptible? -----Original Message----- From: [email removed] [mailto:[email removed]] On Behalf Of [email removed] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:22 AM To: [email removed] Subject: [S10-EV] WARNING TO ALL...
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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:21:52 -0600
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Early in the morning hours of Saturday August 9th, a Chevrolet S-10EV truck was consumed in a fire while being charged at a public charging location in Burbank CA. No injuries were reported. The fire department was called to extinguish the fire. The vehicle was later removed a...
Lloyd Campbell
Sat, 9 Aug 2008 10:40:26 -0500
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Ok guys, I have determined the charger here at work has some sort of fault. This morning I brought the charger from home and wired it in the same circuit the other one was connected to. Works just fine. The Tech 2 shows a 100% charge request and an amp draw of 16A. The other c...
Thomas W. Dowling
Fri, 8 Aug 2008 08:43:23 -0700
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Has this charger ever worked with your truck? A 40A 2-pole breaker is correct. The circuit should be fed by two hot legs of the three-phase service. The voltage between the two hot legs should be right around 208V. Tom Dowling From: [email removed] [mailto:[email removed]] On...
Lloyd Campbell
Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:04:31 -0500
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Hello everyone, I had the electrician wire in my second wall mount charger(model WM200) here at the shop yesterday and it seems to have a problem. This morning after driving in to work I tried to use it for the first time and after a few minutes it's telling me to check vehicl...
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Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:48:26 -0600
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The real stuff from GM. GM manufactures a special synthetic lubricant for these EV drive pods. Do not introduce any other lubricant to the system. Contact your chevy dealer. They can order it for you. If they play dumb, contact another dealer. It's a very thin low viscosity fo...
paul doe
Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
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In general, the "battery guage" or state of charge is fairly inaccurate.? If you have a scanner and watch the weak battery, you can monitor the battery condition.? When I'm in a rush and don't feel like setting up the scanner, the power use and pack voltage guages are a much b...
Joshua Tomel
Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:27:46 -0400
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Lloyd, I saw the item# 230274514400 on the bay. I was wondering, is your truck filled with PbA (Lead Acid) batteries or NiMH batteries? I noticed in that auction a 120 volt portable charger was included, are you using that, and how well does it work? I got one because there ar...
Paul Peavyhouse
Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:06:31 -0700
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FYI, I don't intend for this to start a flame war or any sort of "debate", but you should make it a habit to *never* drive these trucks past 50% charge. The knee-bend in the voltage is drastic after this point, and if you exert many amps from the pack after 50% then you are as...
Jeff Thomas
Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:04:05 -0700
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What you are hearing is the oscillator of the switching DC-DC power supply inside the AD (Auto Disconnect) module located within your sealed battery pack assembly. The systems remain powered continuously, and the audible noise is a harmonic of the magnetics GM chose. Some AD m...
Lloyd Campbell
Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:11:28 -0500
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Hello everyone, First of all I would like to introduce myself to the list as a new S10-EV owner. I?ve been a list member for a couple months now and I asked the towing question last week. My name is Lloyd Campbell and I reside in Zimmerman MN. Just last weekend I drove to San...
eric
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:23:40 -0400
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In the pod3 photo the gear that drives the diff on the very top. the cogs on that gear look just like the park cogs and an auto trans Eric > > I wouldn't be at all suprised if the damage to the vehicle that Jeff > fixed was caused by the tow operator dragging the vehicle while...
Thomas W. Dowling
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:19:11 -0700
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I think tow truck drivers take delight in cowboy antics.... A few years ago, I was in Santa Monica at an EV1 event. Two of the EV charging spaces in the parking lot were blocked by City ICE vehicles -- Tauruses, as I recall. An EV1 driver complained to the Santa Monica police...
Joshua Tomel
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:39:09 -0400
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Niel, Nearly 10 days ago I was put into the same situation where the truck would not charge or drive out from my garage due to the bad temp sensors and the tow truck driver wanted to do the same thing. I was as firm as possible that no movement of my truck was going to take pl...
Niel Nielsen
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:41:04 -0500
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Dennis, I have a hunch that the regen gets disabled if the batteries are sensed at an elevated temperature. I saw the regen get disabled in my vehicle during most of an afternoon, and I know that the batteries were hot. To me, it would make sense that the vehicle would disable...
Jeff Thomas
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:03:21 -0700
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Do not tow the S-10EV with the front wheels in contact (turning) with the road under any circumstances. Do use a two wheel swivel dolly or trailer. Jeff On Jul 30, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Lloyd Campbell wrote: > > > What, if any, issues need to addressed to tow the S10-EV with a > s...
Jeff Thomas
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:19:09 -0700
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Gar, it appears the PSM module has passed on. Fortunately the failure mode did not result in a high voltage leakage path that would shut the vehicle down completely. The PSM is beneath the PIM and will need to be pulled for service. Your chevy dealer will have the module avail...
Dennis Scott
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:25:43 -0500
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I just wanted to post my findings on the problem I had with no regen. for general info. I have had no codes and the truck had regen operable a few weeks ago. The regen quit functioning and I still had a clean slate on all modules as far as DTC's went. last week my truck called...
Mike Maguire
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:28:15 -0700
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Two things, 1) Shouldn't (if it doesn't already) the Sherman Anti-Trust law prevent Oil companies from owning Battery companies, and 2) I wonder about Manufacturers warranting propulshion batteries longer than they warrantee the '12 volt' system. Is that regulation from an adm...
Gil Dawson
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:27:29 -0700
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At 10:44 P -0700 7/21/08, [email removed] wrote: >CNN's The Situation Room rewrites history Yes, well, they do that all the time. Sometimes we notice it. We're learning. --Gil At 10:44 P -0700 7/21/08, [email removed] wrote: CNN's The Situation Room rewrites history and Expung...
Ian Ward
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:00:49 -0500
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He is just blowing smoke - and I'm surprised to see it, as he's been pretty active on the Ranger EV list for a long time. The original batteries only had about 60 miles range, and you can't swap in 12 volts that are anywhere near as good as those were for EVs. - ian On Mon, Ju...
Richard Poudrier
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:34:02 -0400
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eBay Item #120284030335 It needs batteries, but this guy is claiming it has a range of "80-100 miles per charge, and possibly more" with new lead acid batteries. I don't know anything about the Ranger EV's, I barely know anything about my own S10 EV, but this does not seem rig...
Jeff Thomas
Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:51:54 -0700
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Independent tests of various LRR tire choices tires are documented in the S-10EV file archives. Choices were weighted by rolling resistance, compound, noise, sidewall/inflation pressure, and tread life. The winner? Goodyear Assurance Comfortred 215/70 R15 They're not the cheap...
Paul Peavyhouse
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:52:09 -0700
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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
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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...
EVdave
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:58:20 -0400
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ah, sorry bout that, i posted to the wrong list... db Jim Coate wrote: > This group is all about the S-10's factory built by GM as electric in > 1997-98, using the EV1 drive train... totally different beast from the > Solectria S-10's. Although both can be temperamental beasts...
Paul Peavyhouse
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:30:36 -0700
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Yikes! You can still find these fairly easily for <$200! Pv On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Tom Dowling <[email removed]> wrote: > Went for $711, it appears. It was in Henderson, Nevada.... > > That does seem like a LOT more than it's worth. I'm sure there are > units in form...
Tom Dowling
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:12:58 -0700
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Went for $711, it appears. It was in Henderson, Nevada.... That does seem like a LOT more than it's worth. I'm sure there are units in former EV1 drivers' garages. Tom Dowling -----Original Message----- From: [email removed] [mailto:[email removed]] On Behalf Of Ben White Sent...
Jeff Thomas
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:37:41 -0700
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Drill a hole in the dash and install a nice big toggle switch. Jeff On Jul 15, 2008, at 12:09 PM, Steve Hawkins wrote: > Does anyone have, or know of a source for a new front cooling fan > buffer PN 27003265 ? GM originally listed it as available, then > just cxled my order sa...