[CanadaLT28]

I too am very interested.

 

[CanadaLT28]

Looks nice. Given the tight physical size of the mini, I can see why you ditched the Nissan charger. I was going to go the Chevy Volt batteries route and may still make a secondary pack but now have a Leaf pack. What batteries are you using?



Other than physical size, what at the advantages of doing the custom inverter over the old one?



More importantly, what did you use to mate to the motor spline?

 

[CanadaLT28]

That is a nice tight conversion. I like trying to translate German too and luckily have German speakers around as well so if you have a link in German it would be better. I'm not finding it with the English translation.

 

[CanadaLT28]

Looks like a great product. If it could control the charger(s), AC, and the DC to DC (anything else?) on the Leaf components , it would be even better for DIY and commercial conversions.

I just bought one of Pauls controllers for the Leaf but I'm still not sure what it controls and what it does not control. I don't know if this is more comprehensive or not.

 

[CanadaLT28]

which board did you buy the drop in ?

Yes, the $329 one. Bit sparce on info.

 

[CanadaLT28]

i currently have one, got it working briefly, cant get it to run again, hoping Paul can help.

Did you do anything questionable, LOL. I'm sure I will although I hope not

 

[CanadaLT28]

its only setting numbers, you have to get the correct offset angle, which im having probs with.

Is this something that Paul can do before he sends one to me or does it have to be done whilst in the car? I know you are in the UK so it's kind of hard for you to send it back and forth to get fixed.

 

[CanadaLT28]

Hi, i will definitely run the original inverter , mostly because i think i save time ? ? but maybe step two would be a board for more options

Have there been any numbers of cars built yet with this kit, google do not find that much.



Nice movie

I am doing a double leaf motor/inverter truck build. It is using Pauls boards, Volt packs (yes more than one) and as yet, I haven't found a way to monitor and charge the batteries. DC-DC is not difficult.

 

[CanadaLT28]

Hi there!

Sorry guys I haven’t been following this forum post for the last couple of months.

Just to answer some questions:

Yes, we are running 29 Nissan Leaf battery modules. 17 in the back and another 12 under the back seats.

The torque was limited at that time because we are afraid of killing the driveshafts and then other projects needed to be done and so we didn’t do final testing with max torque at that time. But we are working on the Mini now and installing our new Nissan Leaf ECU kit. I can give you updates next week or the week after whne the Mini is running again. ;-)

We have also done some other changes to the Mini hardware wise and I will post some pictures if anybody is interested.

Keep, do you have any updates on your VCU?