Also, the car is rege'd!

Enjoying driving it around whilst I still can, in all of its infinte gas guzzling, dinosaur burning, planet killing, noisy and stinky glory.

Another milestone! And the last few days have been a bit of a roller coaster. The LTO batteries have arrived

[batteries in their natural habitat (a pallet)]
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and I've started doing capacity test at the cell level. The cells are testing well-ish, at around 2mOhm, 15Ah. I have a total of ...

Update from me:

I've finally gotten the car's title clear of the write-off status!

Necessary to get this done before doing any of the modifications, its much easier to verify the safety and completeness of repairs when the car is still stock. The process was very very arduous and involved a heap ...

Sounds like a great project - good luck and I will follow with interest. I am in the middle of my EV project on a 2006 RA Rodeo upin Brisbane. I originaly wanted to use the GS450h transmission, but gave up after 6 months of looking, as I could not find one for a reasonable price. At $1500 I’d say ...

Absoluteeeely will. Thanks for your comments of support!

For instance if you've got 2kwh of LTO and 30kwh of NMC, then even if the LTO cells can do 10x the C rating of the NMC ones, you can still get more power out of the NMC pack because of its vastly larger capacity.


Coming back to this thread to see If i can dissuade myself before i start to build ...

Not at this stage, happened ahead of finding this O inv platform, however aiming to revisit the project, and start a thread. So sorry this has been to one side whilst learning and exploring hybrid options in a Bedford van, and gs300h L210 transmission focus. Wip


Thats awesome, would be eager to ...

Hello!! Starting off my build thread at last after a longgg while of reading and studying and asking.

Quick intro:
I'm Thomas. I live in Melbourne, Australia and am studying my undergraduate degree in EE right now.

I have worked on an almost scratch built e-bike project in the past which sorta ...

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Comparing the 3210 to a 3204, the only difference is the missing ferrite bead (I think that's what that is) on the bottom left corner of the board, and the label applied to the brick. (The Nano-fits on the 3204 were a manual modification and not how it originally came ...

xp677 I've done some more web scraping and found your old thread on the diyelectriccar forums, I didn't realise you were a major contributor to the reverse engineering of the gs450h, amazing!

What came of your rx7 conversion?

Curious how you went from trying to control the inverter via the sync ...

I plan to implement this in my gs450h based conversion. Super glad others have had the same idea. I'll definitely share the details once I get up to that stage, but still on early stages of conversion for me so its a while away.

Hi Phillip, those are really amazing battery boxes!
Do you have plans for the battery box frame that replaces the fuel tank that you would be willing to share?

Is your new design using the P-channel published anywhere at all? I'd like to order one of these and help test too!
I got a handful of EV200 A1ANA for like AU$10 each

Really cool project! I'd also be interested in using the converter to charge from a DC source like a LV solar battery. It'd be necessary to implement a current limit.

I see two options

Option 1: add a current sensor of some kind and implement a current control loop to your arduino code.
Option 2 ...

Thanks for the prompt updates!

It looks like the sales rep I was speaking to didn't really know what they were talking about, so the inbuilt CAN is isolated. Does anyone have the datasheet?

I've ordered a few of these units, different vendor (directly off JK taobao store, JK B2A24S) and would ...

I've been looking around for BMS options and have landed on this project. I'm trying to prioritize cost and this seems most effective.

Have been in contact with JK-bms sales reps to try to aks more details out of them. Basically the same info that we already have.
From what ive told, the CAN ...

Is there a thread where you have documented more about your project in detail? Would love to look into it more.

Thanks for your inputs!! I'm talking to the legend himself.

Point taken on going the simple route for an initial attempt. I imagine with any pack built cell by cell or as oem module, a custom BMS and integration into rest of system will be necessary so the difference in difficulty appears to be in ...

Hi, Im Thomas! Im studying electrical engineering as an undergrad and have been interested in the realm of diy electric mobility and energy for while. New to the forums but have been reading along, which has been getting me slowly poised up for a EV conversion. EXCITED.

Finally pulled the trigger ...

No expertise here but this would be amazing to see ~

I'm fairly new to the world of ev conversions and am particularly interested in a gt86 conversion.

The two 86 conversions I've seen so far is yours and zaptero's completed build. Interested to see if the lexus transmission form factor will give you much more engine bay space for batteries...

It's ...

That's a huge shame. Best of luck with life and hope to see you back with some great projects.

Your 86 conversion was brilliant. newbie here but that has put pipe dreams in my head to try the same some day.