My plans keep changing. I would love to keep this truck on the road but I've spent a lot of money doing it already. Mostly on batteries. I think an Electric truck just makes sense. My 1st pack were 12AVR75 from Deka. They held up ok. My current pack is EV34A-A from Discover. They are absolute junk from China. Range on a new pack should be 60 miles. It never went more than 20 miles. After 1 year and 1800 miles I can't go over 5 miles without a "Bat Life" light. I suspect the quality control for balanced cell production is non-existent in China for lead acids.I used a 97 S10e powertrain in the front of a hybrid pontiac fiero project once using prius batteries instead of the stock battery. I created a network of 26 high value resistors to generate 26 equal voltages for the BPM to be happy. Similar trick with resistors to fake temperature sensor inputs.
Now i have a 98 s10e that I'm retrofitting a G1 Volt battery and charging system into. No plans to keep the BPM this time, I'll use an Arduino to replace the BPM's few vehicle facing functions.
Nice to see other people are still working on these. What are your full plans with your truck? That may help give better advice.
I would produce 26 Lithium modules to replace the lead acids, so the 12 volt signal would be the easy part.How about every 3-4 cells you provide a lead out to the control module using 30 gauge?
The gain would be keeping my gauges functional. Speed, SOC, Pack voltage, and monitoring of each Battery or module. It would also be nice to use the paddle charger system. All of which runs through the PIM and BPCM.So thats one reason i went with the Volt battery. The voltage window better aligns between the battery and the inverter with this combination.
Seems like you might be better pushing the voltage range of your pack higher to match the s10 hardware. What will monitoring these cells with the S10 BPM gain you?
The A/C in the 97 S10E is a heat pump. Works great in A/C mode but only down to 43 degrees for heat. Below 43 a diesel fueled boiler fires up and heats coolant for a standard heater core. I switched to Kerosene. Thick black Diesel smoke coming out of my "100%" electric truck just didn't look right. The system also heats or cools the entire battery pack for efficient use and charging.I have a same problem , a ford ranger 1998 factory ev , 8 volt LA battery pack . Would like to use the G1 volt pack too. I have the factory manuals.
I wounder what air conditioner/ controller was used on the chevy and the ford, maybe the same. I was thinking of using it on my boat since the ford is just sitting in storage.
The gain would be keeping my gauges functional. Speed, SOC, Pack voltage, and monitoring of each Battery or module. It would also be nice to use the paddle charger system. All of which runs through the PIM and BPCM.
Great system for cold climets , I have a military heater ,24 volt , water exchanger runs on diesel or kerosene .The A/C in the 97 S10E is a heat pump. Works great in A/C mode but only down to 43 degrees for heat. Below 43 a diesel fueled boiler fires up and heats coolant for a standard heater core. I switched to Kerosene. Thick black Diesel smoke coming out of my "100%" electric truck just didn't look right. The system also heats or cools the entire battery pack for efficient use and charging.