[sholland]

I have a weird problem... I just finished getting the car put back together after building a new pack, adding AC, power steering and upgrading the charger to the EMotorWerks MiniSmartCharge 12K. The EVSE reports a GFCI fault if I I have the battery connected to the Soliton1. If I disconnect it, it charges fine. It never did that before I rebuilt everything. I also previously used the regular SmartCharge 12K.

With the battery connected to the Soliton1, I can measure negative pack voltage from chassis GND to pack-. It would seem to indicate that pack+ is shorted to chassis somewhere... But when I disconnect the Soliton1, the apparent short goes away. I've traced everything I can and there is no short anywhere else. Does the Soliton1 PGND or SGND need to be isolated?

When not charging and the Soliton1 connected as normal, the car drives fine.

Any ideas?

 

[sholland]

Just giving this a bump to see if (hopefully) someone had any ideas...

 

[piotrsko]

Attempting to blow away cobwebs: sground and pground should be isolated. You don't want pground floating on the chassis.

I am pretty sure they are done that way internally, but since old age has come upon my Sol1, it exhibits odd things.

 

[sholland]

I was hoping Tesseract or someone else from the now defunct Evnetics was still on line and could offer some advice...

I suppose this just pushes me to find a better AC solution...

 

[Duncan]

I don't think this can apply to a Soliton
but when I built my Paul & Sabrina controller I had a single MOSFET fail
The controller worked fine - but it gave a leakage to earth
All my fault - how many IBGT's in the Soliton - maybe one has died?

 

[sholland]

I suspect that's probably the case...