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Why didn't you just buy a complete car as a donor?
the hv wiring is useful, same with water pumps and the auxiliary heaters. AC compressor too.
There’s multiple ways to control everything. replacement mother boards for the inverter for custom tunning of the power stage (openinverter) Or a variety of canbus controllers. some are almost plug and play
resolve controller, zombieverter vcu (this is a general purpose vcu which can control a variety of other parts) and thunderstruck vcu
the bms works great as is. The. Can bus is decoded. Leaf spy works great for cell monitoring.
All Leaf packs are 96S, meaning 96 groups of cells in series. Other than the 62 kWh pack, all Leaf packs consist of 48 modules each with 4 cells in a 2S2P configuration (two cells in a parallel group, two of those groups in series), so all of the modules are connected in series. Other than the earliest packs, the modules are stuck together in pairs (but still electrically separate), so there are 24 pairs of modules that are easiest to leave in pairs.... How many cells are required? I've seen 48 cell packs and... something like 62 cell packs I think. Am I mistaken and they are all 48 cell?
You want the inverter intimate with the motor for a number of electrical engineering reasons. Putting it in the trunk, 10-12 feet away, is a bad idea.Ok, that helps. I plan on splitting them up, the rear area is actually pretty spacious but I'm not sure how much weight can go back there.
I suppose I could put the charge controller and inverter in the rear but that means running coolant hoses the length of the car which I'd like to avoid.
I agree, but strangely some Toyota AWD hybrids apparently have the inverter for the rear motor located with the front inverter, in front. Still to be avoided, especially if you're splitting the battery into two packs so you can just put fewer where the inverter is going and more in the other location.You want the inverter intimate with the motor for a number of electrical engineering reasons. Putting it in the trunk, 10-12 feet away, is a bad idea.
The DC-to-DC converter can be anywhere, too... the high voltage cable for the relatively low power is small.Charge controller remoting is fine.
Each module is actually 4 cells, in a 2S2P configuration, but externally that doesn't matter so the rest of what followed that still applies. The 40 kWh battery has the same configuration.The stock LEAF 24/30kwh is 48 modules, 96 cells. Each module is 2 inseparable cells...