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Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:33:57 EST
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Gar This will not work with lead acid batteries. High amps with an AGM battery such as the Panasonic will kill it for sure. There are many false beliefs out there about restoring the capacity of lead acid batteries. Mostly because of a few positive results that are not based o...
Greg Brewsaugh
Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:24:12 -0800
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If it's the same thing I do with "dead" Nickel batteries to "revive" them, I hit them hard with as many amps as I think they can handle (without self destructing their internal wiring) for a few seconds. I use an RC car pack charger that puts out several (~4-5) amps at ~10 vol...
Joshua Tomel
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:44:20 -0500
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Gil, And they say that Toyota's RAV4 EV is the hardest to get. I think I recall seeing here on the forums that someone's favorite search on eBay is Magne Charge, well anyone looking for a working charging station should look at item #: 330085147582. Joshua ____________________...
Gil Dawson
Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:39:35 -0800
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Wow! It sold in three hours flat! Anyone know the buyer? --GIl At 1:25 PM -0700 2/8/07, Jeff Thomas wrote: >It's not one I've seen before. It's a native 98 NiMH from CalTrans. > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? >ViewItem&item=260084978771 > >The owner let the...
Jeff Thomas
Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:25:32 -0700
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It's not one I've seen before. It's a native 98 NiMH from CalTrans. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=260084978771 The owner let the pack drop too low to take a charge. Drop the pack and defibrillate the batteries to have a runner. A strong chance...
Paul Peavyhouse
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:53:05 -0800
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I have had my S10EV for over a week now (186 miles), and I am tracking it's mileage on Google Docs & Spreadsheets. You are more than welcome to give it a look: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pnpW1bAXE1sGISIzICWYSKA Any tips on any other simple metrics that I should be...
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Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:34:15 +0000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Paul Peavyhouse
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:41:25 -0800
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Thanks for the info Niel. I already have a Palm hooked up to S10EV w/ the converter running EV1Dash just fine. I am pulling down the free Palm OS Developer Suite right now (http://www.access-company.com/developers/) and will start tinkering with it over the next few weeks to l...
Niel Nielsen
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:02:45 -0600
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It's interesting that I was looking at the very same thing (the EV1 dash) last night as well. Here's what I as able to find out last night: The code for the EV1 dash was written in C. It is compiled by a compiler/integrated development environment into native code for the Palm...
Niel Nielsen
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:10:52 -0600
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A normal 120 volt AC outlet is fused (by a circuit breaker) at 15 amps on the "hot" wire. 15 amps times 120 volts is 1800 watts, or 1.8 KW. Combining two 120 volt outlets that are on opposite phases would give you 15 amps at 240 volts. 15 times 240 is 3600 watts, or 3.6 KW. Wh...
Mike Kane
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:53:51 -0800 (PST)
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Paul if you look at the specs for the adapter in question, it converts two 30A 120V (3600W ea) circuits to one 50A 120V (7200W) circuit. Unfortunately there's no free lunch. Mike --- Paul Peavyhouse <[email removed]> wrote: > Thanks for the links Mike! > > I don't quite unders...
Mike Kane
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:49:56 -0800 (PST)
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Gil, If I remember right the expensive ones do have some user instrumentation (just a couple LEDs on the front to tell you if it's working or there's a fault). Basically the way I understand it they check for current on both legs of the adapter before they will allow any curre...
Gil Dawson
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:42:35 -0800
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At 3:07 P -0800 1/29/07, Paul Peavyhouse wrote: >How is that possible? Power from the power company mains comes to most any facility -- your house, my house, the shore dock -- as 240 volts on three wires: two hots and a neutral. The voltage between the two hots is 240 volts. T...
Paul Peavyhouse
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:07:56 -0800
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Thanks for the links Mike! I don't quite understand the math, but I think this is very similar to what I was thinking about: http://www.discountmarinesupplies.com/Shorepower_Adapters-MARINCO_REVERSE_Y_ADAPTER_30A_TO_50A.html With one of these (and some knowledge of the breaker...
Mike Kane
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:07:30 -0800 (PST)
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Actually, There are a number of Boating products to do exactly this. They have circuitry to ensure they are combining equivalent phase lines, and to ensure that they don't put power out on unconnected male connectors. Here's a few samples. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=M...
Jim Coate
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:01:24 -0500
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There is no real way to gang up outlets to increase the current limit. And while certain wiring arrangements might allow the voltage to be doubled, it is a recipe for disaster with the hazards involved. Sorry. Paul Peavyhouse wrote: > Is there a way to take 2 120V outlets and...
Gil Dawson
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:25:46 -0800
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Dear Mr Glover-- In response to your question, "Can I envision myself driving an all-electric vehicle in the future?" I most certainly can. In fact, I'm driving one today. I am one of the very lucky few who managed to purchase an all-electric vehicle made by a major automobile...
Stephen Weitz
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:49:50 -0800
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Gil, The question you are asking, I think, is similar to the conversion of DC to AC back to DC. In AC the voltage is quite variable over time and yet it is possible to do the conversion to DC. I would think the situation you are describing with capacitors is easier than AC whe...
Gil Dawson
Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:03:49 -0800
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This news about ultracapacitors is huge. Never mind the details, the notion of using capacitors instead of batteries is very attractive: capacitors don't care how fast you charge them or discharge them, they don't use up any energy themselves, but simply store it. They don't g...
Rayan Ghazal
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:41:01 -0800
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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
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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...
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Tue, 9 Jan 2007 19:16:51 EST
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Most people would not know or think about the following. I have to admit the slick response the S-10 was not built as a ground up EV does at first sound reasonable. However this answer from GM Dave Barthmuss is vague and for good reason. They do not want you to consider the fo...
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Sun, 7 Jan 2007 18:45:11 -0800
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The following has been discussed before, but for those who may be new to the lists I thought I'd pass it along. GM proposed a series hybrid version of its EV1 nearly 10 years ago: http://www.autoworld.com/news/GMC/Series_Hybrid.htm Based on the preliminary information we have...
Joshua Tomel
Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:07:28 -0500
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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...
Niel Nielsen
Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:27:50 -0600
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I had an interesting experience with my S10-EV this week. The vehicle is kept and charged in our attached garage. The charger is normally set to delay the charging until 3 am. On Wednesday night, the vehicle needed charging after 37 miles of driving (Bat Life came on during th...
The Johnsens
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:54:37 -0800
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Amen. Ken Johnsen >From: [email removed] >To: [email removed] >CC: [email removed] >Subject: Re: [S10-EV] Replacement Pre-Charge Caps. >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:29:21 -0800 > >After reading all of the drama regarding the failed capacitors and the >virtual certainty that every...