[KiwiEV]

I know what you mean. I drove on the right side of the road in Europe in a rental car a few months back. That was the most stressful week of my life. I've never known something as simple as driving to be so complex again. It's like learning to drive all over. When it came time to change gear I kept whacking my left hand into the driver's door panel thinking the gear lever was still on that side!

[Mr. Sharkey]

Good going, Gav. It's been interesting to watch you gain experience and confidence over the course of building the car!

Make sure to replace the defective battery promptly, it's important to have all of the batteries in your pack have the same discharge experiences, and running with a weak cell will mean that when you do replace the bad battery, the rest of the cells in the pack will have different discharge histories, which will have a ~huge~ impact as the pack ages as a whole.

As for your contactor, are the contacts clean, no oily residue, etc? It would be possible to connect a digital volt meter across the contacts to measure the voltage drop under heavy load and see if there is any resistance showing up that would explain arcing/heating of the contacts. Another problem that is better fixed before it gets chronic

Your'e into the debugging stage now, clean up the fiddly bits and you'll have a reliable daily driver.

I guess you got the heater working? You look nice and warm, and didn't need a heavy coat for the trial run...

[Greenflight]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sharkey

I guess you got the heater working? You look nice and warm, and didn't need a heavy coat for the trial run...

Well, he does live in New Zealand... Aren't they in the middle of summer about now?

[Mr. Sharkey]

Originally Posted by Greenflight

Well, he does live in New Zealand... Aren't they in the middle of summer about now?

Yes, lucky sods, that's why I made the comment. I almost didn't get a shower this evening because the water line from the spring had just begun to freeze. Flying south for the winter looks better every year.