The last time I talked with Firefly they were planning on introducing an EV battery but they saw an opportunity with the truck battery and went for it. In the...
Newbie to group with a 97 Force. Driven car only a month and have been researching all post to assist with my first issue. I only have let the meter go to...
It turns out that a marginal set of batteries was the "speed limiter". The E-10 has a rather peppy response to 70 mph. I am looking for a new/used set of...
The NGL4 monitor cable is just a regular "straight thru" serial cable. There is a setting in the charger to shut down if it does not reach a certain point in...
Wolf
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Mar 5, 2009 4:45 am
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... set ... of ... I'm running my E-10 on batteries from a large data center UPS system that the company upgraded. Everybody knew that I drove an EV and they...
I am currenlty running on UPS batteries too: http://www.wolftronix.com/E10/images/P6030171.jpg Another place to check is aircraft maintenance facilities, they...
Wolf
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Mar 7, 2009 9:35 pm
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My membership application having been accepted, I should introduce myself: The name is Ray Alden; I live in Santa Rosa, CA, and have been the owner of a...
My need: There are two safety interlock circuits in the Solectria motor control system that prevent activation: 1) when power is turned on and the direction...
... Welcome! What year Solectria do you have and in turn what controller is in it? From just the symptoms you described, it seems to me that the sky is the...
PS How exactly does the "instrument made by Solectria to test the controller" connect to the controller at the same time the controller is connected to the...
Totaly not fair... I did not know there where control boxes out there... :P I am building my own AMC control box: http://www.wolftronix.com/AMC_Control/ Still...
Wolf
wolf@...
Mar 10, 2009 2:33 am
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Hey all: Check out Jay Leno's review of an electric mini cooper. It got a great review and looks like fun. ...
This is a bit harder for me to answer, but I'll try. First let me explain that my tech advisor was, back when Solectria was building cars, their tech...
Thank you, Wolf! Much here for us to check out. We have, by the way, checked that stack power is right up there around 165 volts. I didn't mention this in...
Yeah, when I say "Drive" I mean the AMC 325 Motor Controller. ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_drive The terminology is different depending on where you...
Wolf
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Mar 10, 2009 5:58 am
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Just following up on my melting positive post. It's beginning to look like a surface issue. Poor contact arcing? I brought it by a Batteries Plus store after a...
... Isn't there a charger interlock or charger control box that prevents operation with the charger plugged in? Jim - Glendale, AZ www.evalbum.com/1703 ... ...
Thanks again! There was nothing intermittent; the car worked fine before; it would not drive at all after the new batteries were installed. Headlights, radio,...
Yes indeed there is! There is an "Ignition box" under the dash board. We have a drawing that shows connections to this box, and one of them is labeled "charge...
By the way . . . Your recommendations suggest that you have drawings, schematics, or something that we don't have. E.g. You know which terminal in the ...
All my info came from page 25 in the user manual: http://www.wolftronix.com/amc320/Manual_AMC_III.pdf :) Wolf *wags his tail* www.wolftronix.com...
Wolf
wolf@...
Mar 10, 2009 11:37 pm
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There is a plastic tube going to the differential, also to the bearing housing upstream of the drive shaft. Is this for filling lubricant, or just a breather? ...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see any reason to be suspecting the ignition box, charger interlocks, etc at this point. As I understand it (from...
To add lubricant to differential, just take off the plug on upper side of differential, kind of like an oil pan plug on the side, and fill until it is up to...
I have a 1998 156V Force with a Brusa NLG412B (BC3300) charger. When I plug in the charger, the top red light (the one furthest from the green) on the...
... From: kevin gildea <kpgildea@...> Subject: Re: [solectria_ev] Lubricant fill tube to differential on E-10 To: solectria_ev@yahoogroups.com Date:...