[a-class]

Really lovely conversion Dimitri...This question goes back a bit..... Are you finding your BMS is working well with your Zivan charger? In other words can you plug and forget?
Lester

[dimitri]

Originally Posted by a-class

Really lovely conversion Dimitri...This question goes back a bit..... Are you finding your BMS is working well with your Zivan charger? In other words can you plug and forget?
Lester

That's exactly what I have been doing on a daily basis for past 2 months , plug and forget... the system is working perfectly, few times I turned the charger on during the day after full charge at night, just to observe the final balancing stage and make sure all shunts are working. Most shunts light up red LEDs within 2-3 minutes of each other, while charger is already at low current phase pushing only 1.5 Amps. Balancing phase takes about 20-30 minutes and then charger shuts off.

I just passed 1000 EV miles still running on beta controller, although it doesn't really feel like beta since its working perfectly for me. I will be getting hopefully final controller hardware upgrade in a few days, so I will post some updates here if Tesseract lets me speak , I don't think there are any secrets left after all the graphs and videos posted in his controller thread

We don't drive as much during summer break, kid's at home and weather is too damn hot, so I haven't been using the car as much as I'd like. I will be doing more test runs with updated controller, and I really want to test my freeway range, so I will be posting results here in a couple of weeks.

Thanks for your nice words

[PatricioIN]

so... an update for us??? How are things going, range.. performance (particularly of the auto tranny set up, batts..) Anything we should know?

[dimitri]

Well, I was hoping to post a massive update once I get my 1000 amp upgrade on the controller, but I am still waiting for those guys to polish the software. They offered me to upgrade hardware to 1000 amps and then do another upgrade to final software later, but I was too lazy to take the controller out of the car twice, so I declined and decided to wait a bit longer for one final hardware and software upgrade.

According to controller thread updates I should be getting my controller updated pretty soon. Immediately after that I am planning to do some test runs, including highway range and performance test and local roads performance test, etc.

After final upgrade my lips will be unsealed, so as a first customer of Soliton1 on this forum I will let you know everything I think about it

Other than that, the car is working great, got about 1500 EV miles. School in Florida started today, so I will be getting more mileage with school runs.

Batteries, BMS and charger all work perfectly, can't complain...

I absolutely love how automatic tranny turned out, shifts smoothly, shift points completely customizable to my desire via trimpot.

If I ever do more conversions I will only go for automatics... I do not have any sentiments towards stick shift.

Also, my wife drives this EV more than I do and she has a lead foot, but even with limited beta controller the car is handling pretty good, about the same as original ICE, and Protege's aren't known for their performance. So with double controller power this will probably be fastest Protege around

[COS]

Where/who did you get the transmission adaptor plate from? I am lookig to do a Mazda3 conversion. Manual tranny of course.
Any help finding this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank

[dimitri]

Originally Posted by COS

Where/who did you get the transmission adaptor plate from? I am lookig to do a Mazda3 conversion. Manual tranny of course.
Any help finding this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank

I guess reading the whole thread was a burden for you

The answer is in post 37 , I cut it out of half inch aluminum plate.

[Qer]

Originally Posted by dimitri

Well, I was hoping to post a massive update once I get my 1000 amp upgrade on the controller, but I am still waiting for those guys to polish the software.

Tesseract got a release candidate just now, actually. If everything's well that'll be version 1.0 of the software.