Fred Leudon disassembled his Q model BCB himself and here a few of his pictures, now including the filter module! Note that what I earlier identified as the flyback diode is actually a 63 uH coil. Also visible is the…
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V2G and V2H charger: Next step Chamelion?
In The Netherlands there is a car sharing initiative called We Drive Solar, basically using car batteries as PV grid storage on the neighborhood-level, as opposed to home-level. In that neighborhood (Lombok in the city of Utrecht), they have long…
Lead acid battery replacement advice
As there is no indication about a degrading 12 volt battery like a struggling starter motor in an ICE, it’s condition that can bite you, and I am sure that is the reason for Renault advising replacement after 3 years.…
Charger design
This is a companion post to the BCB pictures post. It makes sense to check all pictures and text there first. A student in high power electronics contacted me to discuss some design issues and pointed me to this US…
Only single phase charging failing.
Just like in brain research, often a lot can be learned when things go wrong. A friend driving a ZOE was struggling for months with the weirdest problem. The car charged fine on public chargers, but not at home. However,…
V/I graph of the ZOE charging
Harm Otten had a team from the local electricity distribution company over for an unrelated metering problem, and obtained from them a screen shot of the voltage / current curve of ZOE charging. This is a Q model. The dark…
Android Auto – also on the oldest of ZOEs
It turns out even the oldest R-Link consoles have Android Auto support, though disabled. It takes some work to enable it but it is very doable. Need to drop a few huge thank-yous for people involved and I really hope…
The charge plug locking mechanism #4
For a few days charging has been a bit problematic, and finally it quit altogether yesterday. The problem was now definitely the plug locking mechanism as it kept on clicking while the plug was surely locked. I removed the mechanism…
UCM module fuses
This is a guest post by SpeakEV user modrich. I managed to locate and replace the blown 10amp fuse that feeds the reverse light, camera and parking sensors. The reason for this post is that the fuse isn’t located in…
The start button (while driving)
Somebody in the UK forum asked what would happen if you’d press the Start button while driving. Time for an experiment. Pressing once: only thing happens is Cruise Control tripping off ; Long press: nothing happens; Five short presses: “ignition…
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