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So here I am typing away and I am at the crossroads that I believe all of us face eventually, to pack it in....or soldier on.
EVers, I recently upgraded my charger setup and charged my pack. Things were going great for about 18 miles and my salvaged/homebuilt controller gave up the ghost.
I think it's time to sell up and move on...
Here's my list of depression inducing incidents and their constant grind to the point that I'm contemplating this move,
My build was going fine, all parts bought and accounted for whe i started in 2008
The 2 points of purchase that should NOT have been done in hindsight are the following;
Purchasing a Logisystems controller
Purchasing a Quick Charge charger (which was underpowered but not advertised as such)
The Controller blew out 5 times with the shortest wait being a week, the longest being...longer... the time and effort to pull the unit out, send it off, get it back, reinstall, just to drive 5 miles and have it blow up again...rinse and repeat.
How about the non mentioned issues of towing the car back home...over and over again.Feeling like a failure because people ask how your car is going and you try to avoid answering the question...oh its parked in the drive way collecting tree sap..
How about the fact that in 2 years of ownership of an EV that the car has seen only about 600 miles of actual use.
my salvage of the last controller logisystems sent me let the car run longer than anything they ever sent, but only after i built the control portion and married it to their power stage.
I succesfully get the controller working better and the charger gives it up...finally giving in to the fact that it was under sized for the pack....
Back and forth back and forth......
This was an interesting experiment...but this hobby is just that...a hobby....one that is simply too expensive for me to keep fishing out money for especially to be ripped off by crooked dealers...inept manufacturers...
and time....TIME.... 2 and a half years of sitting and waiting, working in the heat and cold just to wire stuff up...to see it fail a couple of miles later..
I will tug the car back home tomorrow. Provided it really is the controller that has failed yet again, this vehicle goes on the market.
And I go back to a gas machine...
EVers, I recently upgraded my charger setup and charged my pack. Things were going great for about 18 miles and my salvaged/homebuilt controller gave up the ghost.
I think it's time to sell up and move on...
Here's my list of depression inducing incidents and their constant grind to the point that I'm contemplating this move,
My build was going fine, all parts bought and accounted for whe i started in 2008
The 2 points of purchase that should NOT have been done in hindsight are the following;
Purchasing a Logisystems controller
Purchasing a Quick Charge charger (which was underpowered but not advertised as such)
The Controller blew out 5 times with the shortest wait being a week, the longest being...longer... the time and effort to pull the unit out, send it off, get it back, reinstall, just to drive 5 miles and have it blow up again...rinse and repeat.
How about the non mentioned issues of towing the car back home...over and over again.Feeling like a failure because people ask how your car is going and you try to avoid answering the question...oh its parked in the drive way collecting tree sap..
How about the fact that in 2 years of ownership of an EV that the car has seen only about 600 miles of actual use.
my salvage of the last controller logisystems sent me let the car run longer than anything they ever sent, but only after i built the control portion and married it to their power stage.
I succesfully get the controller working better and the charger gives it up...finally giving in to the fact that it was under sized for the pack....
Back and forth back and forth......
This was an interesting experiment...but this hobby is just that...a hobby....one that is simply too expensive for me to keep fishing out money for especially to be ripped off by crooked dealers...inept manufacturers...
and time....TIME.... 2 and a half years of sitting and waiting, working in the heat and cold just to wire stuff up...to see it fail a couple of miles later..
I will tug the car back home tomorrow. Provided it really is the controller that has failed yet again, this vehicle goes on the market.
And I go back to a gas machine...