>From one Massachusetts EV-er to another, congrats! My own was 9 years in the making. Also, with a Z2K, I think you may have grabbed the title of peppiest EV in the state -- unless someone here bought a Tesla, of course :) Seriously, how come everyone out here in the northeast builds curtis-controlled lead sleds?
As to your little mystery, my 914 does something similar: whenever I pass through a certain current range, the wind shield wipers go off! I thought it went away when I swapped out my T-Rex for a Zilla (after the former exploded), but it came back this spring whens I made some changes. Someday I'll have time to fix it... Anyway, cheers! -Ben On Apr 10, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Jeremy Green wrote: > So, my Honda CRX EV is finally back on the road after 11 years of inactivity. > I took the EV apart 11 years ago because the water pump needed to be replaced > and there were a few other upgrades I wanted to do. > Then, my brother moved his shop to another state and then 8 1/2 years ago I > had my first kid. > So, it sat idle for a long time and as these things tend to do (with me), the > scope of the project got much bigger. > I decided to upgrade the controller and replace my transmission with a later > model Integra transmission since there were better clutch options and it is a > much beefier transmission. > So, this involved custom mounts and a new adapter plate. Of course, I > couldn't find anyone who had the adapter plate I needed so I decided to > machine my own on my CNC machine. > The CNC machine had been moved to my brother's new shop in RI (from > Massachusetts) and needed quite a bit of work to get it going again (again, > as I tend to do, I made it a bigger project by replacing the windows > controller software with EMC 2 running on linux). > So, it was quite a while before I actually had the adapter plate machined > (December of 2010). > Anyway, I'm back on the road with a Zilla controller and 64 CALB 100 ah cells > (unfortunately, the old blue case ones). > I went from having a range of around 25 miles to what looks like 65 and the > car is a much more reasonable weight. > There's a lot to be done still but at least now I can drive the car! > > So, on to the fun mystery. I was testing the car out on the highway the > other day and noticed that under hard acceleration, the brake light came on. > I was a little confused and thought either the fluid was low and sloshing or > that I had messed up the wiring for the idiot lights. Then I realized that > one of my high voltage cable goes right next to the master cylinder and, the > float switch for the brake fluid level is a reed switch. So, under hard > acceleration when there was a lot of current going through the cable, it was > generating enough of a magnetic field to cause the reed switch to pull in. I > only had to move the cable a tiny bit to get it to go away. > I expected to be having to track down some problem in the wiring. I was > happy to find it was a simple (and interesting) problem with an easy fix. > > Glad to be back among the EV drivers! I almost broke down and bought a leaf > a year or so ago… > > -Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
