Re: [EVDL] NY Times slaps down Tesla S

2013-02-11 Thread Cor van de Water
The long trip did not get him stranded, but having the car parked in the cold (10 deg F in the morning) affected the partially charged batteries to fall from comfortably making the trip back to the charging station as indicated in the evening, to having less than half charge left the next (cold) mo

Re: [EVDL] EVs as power source

2013-02-11 Thread Lee Hart
On 2/11/2013 1:41 AM, Cor van de Water wrote: the input side of a UPS would make for a backup charger, in fact it might charge faster than the charger I have in my EV today. Maybe yes; maybe no. I've played with a few UPS (Sola, APC, SL Waber). The ones I looked at would have some significant

Re: [EVDL] Delta-Q Charger -Maximun Daily Charge and Range

2013-02-11 Thread Roger Stockton
EVDL Administrator wrote: > > I'm still amazed that this charger, set to a GEL profile, would *ever* > > apply 16V. > > It's hard for me to see that as appropriate for Deka Dominators, too. The > East Penn factory data say to never charge over 14.1v, IIRC. I use 14.3v > and have had excellent r

Re: [EVDL] openchargermap : How to Find EVSE ...

2013-02-11 Thread Willie McKemie
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 02:58:06PM -0800, Bruce EVangel Parmenter wrote: > Another EV Charger finder site, interesting. I will bookmark/favorite it > with the other ones. I found myself listed on openchargemap but with an incomplete list of available outlets. Apparently, they got incomplete inf

[EVDL] Transaxle sound deadener

2013-02-11 Thread K O
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Re: [EVDL] Delta-Q Charger -Maximun Daily Charge and Range

2013-02-11 Thread EVDL Administrator
On 11 Feb 2013 at 12:54, Reikes wrote: > I'm still amazed that this charger, set to a GEL profile, would *ever* > apply 16V. It's hard for me to see that as appropriate for Deka Dominators, too. The East Penn factory data say to never charge over 14.1v, IIRC. I use 14.3v and have had excelle

[EVDL] openchargermap : How to Find EVSE ...

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce EVangel Parmenter
Another EV Charger finder site, interesting. I will bookmark/favorite it with the other ones. Comparing apples with apples, I did some searches. Search A: a plain/everything L3, L2, & L1. Search B: what Leaf, iMiev EV or pih drivers can use, L2@3+kW Search C: what all traveling plugins would want

Re: [EVDL] Delta-Q Charger -Maximun Daily Charge and Range

2013-02-11 Thread Roger Stockton
Reikes wrote: > The GEM E825 has 6 batteries, 4 batteries under the rear seat and 2 over > the front axle/motor. I'm not familiar with that model; our e2L has all 6 under the seat (a row of 4 and then a row of 2 behind it). They must have improved the layout over the years. > I did in fact re

Re: [EVDL] Transaxle sound deadener

2013-02-11 Thread Jay Donnaway
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Re: [EVDL] Delta-Q Charger -Maximun Daily Charge and Range

2013-02-11 Thread Reikes
The GEM E825 has 6 batteries, 4 batteries under the rear seat and 2 over the front axle/motor. The sensor is indeed attached to one of the battery posts. I took IR temp readings of the cases during the finish last night and highest temp observed was 88 degrees. Seems reasonable. Ambient temp in th

Re: [EVDL] Delta-Q Charger -Maximun Daily Charge and Range

2013-02-11 Thread Roger Stockton
Reikes wrote: > I decided to check voltage one night last week after cart had been > charging for approx 8hrs & heard quiet but audible sizzling / boiling > sound from both banks of batteries. "Both banks"? The pack in a GEM is located under the seat in a single cluster, and you said you instal

Re: [EVDL] Transaxle sound deadener

2013-02-11 Thread Mike Brown
At 08:40 AM 2/8/2013, you wrote: The noisiest thing by far in my conversion is the gearbox. Though I detailed to the nines, http://www.karmanneclectric.blogspot.com/2006/06/seeing-green.html I'm thinking of burying that beauty by adding weight through wrapping it in dynamat or similar mater

Re: [EVDL] URGENT - Portable J1772 EVSE needed in Memphis TN

2013-02-11 Thread Lawrence Rhodes
There are 7 Blink charging stations in Memphis downtown area. It is easy to make a portable using an old Avcon DS-50. It's more or less portable. You do need a Blink card to access their system. Lawrence Rhodes. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org

Re: [EVDL] URGENT - Portable J1772 EVSE needed in Memphis TN

2013-02-11 Thread Mike Brown
cussion, please use NEDRA ( > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > > > > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130211/fe5eb7f1/attachment.htm >

Re: [EVDL] How to Find EVSE ...

2013-02-11 Thread Byron James
I've been a happy user of Plugshare here in CO. But today tried the iPhone recargo app. Two disappointments: doesn't show some of my favorite charge points and oddly seems biased against conversions & e-motos. When I first opened the recargo app, it asked me to enter my vehicle from a list of

Re: [EVDL] How to Find EVSE ...

2013-02-11 Thread Thos True
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Re: [EVDL] How to Find EVSE ...

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Sharpe ZCW
On 11/02/2013 15:59, "Bruce EVangel Parmenter" wrote: > >To find EVSE, you want sources that show 'all' EVSE. Recargo does this >http://www.recargo.com/search?search=memphis%2C+tn&commit=Search&filters[] >=1772 > It's also worth supporting the Open Charge Map database (http://www.openchargemap.o

[EVDL] How to Find EVSE ...

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce EVangel Parmenter
The Chargepoint map is really only focused on their EVSE. The 'other' listings (grey'd out non-chargepoint push-pins) lack details to be useful. The Blink map, and SemaCharge map are also EVSE company maps that are there to promote themselves. I do not recommend using these as your primary EV Charg

[EVDL] EVLN: UPS rolls out 100 e-Package-Delivery-Stepvans in California

2013-02-11 Thread brucedp5
Class 5 or 6 r:75/90mi ts:65mph c:6H@L2-75A 99kWh-Valence-LiFeMgP04 http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/02/05/ups-rolls-out-100-electric-vehicles-cali.html [image] UPS rolls out 100 electric vehicles in California By Melanie Turner Feb 5 2013 [image / Bloomberg http://assets.bizjou

[EVDL] EVLN: Tesla's Straubel sez battery improvements enabling new designs

2013-02-11 Thread brucedp5
Every 18mo battery: energy density up 15%; cost pkWh down 15%; cycles up 15%; & cost per lifecycle-mile down 50% http://gigaom.com/2013/02/10/how-battery-improvements-will-revolutionize-the-design-of-the-electric-car/ [images] How battery improvements will revolutionize the design of the electri