I a rap on the door this morning, let me receive my PFC-50. I told the ups driver what it was for and he was impressed (as he turned around to look at my Blazer EV). I told him of the Silicon Valley Rally on the 21st and he was looking forward to it.
The container it came in was large as I hefted it inside. I opened the pink plastic container and pawed through all the pink packing peanuts. There was a heck of a lot of pink to get by to pull up the PFC-50. My next task is to decide how I am going to connect the PFC-50 to my Blazer EV. The PFC-50 comes with an Anderson SB-175 connector on the DC output and a 14-50 plug for the AC input. The AC input I am prepared for. I bought a heavy 10-3 50 ft cord I will adapt for running from the AVCON adaptor box to the rear of my Blazer EV while the PFC-50 will sit on top of my rear battery box. I have two SB-50 connectors installed my on either side of my rear battery box. While I plan to make a SB-175 to SB-50 adaptor for when I am using the PFC-50 at lower currents, that isn't my final solution. I really would like to copy what I had with the Escort EV I had for short time. I had paid Clare Bell http://geocities.com/evet_tech/ to run a 6 gauge pair from the front to the rear with a connector for the NG5 I had bought. I would like to run a fused 4 gauge pair from the front of my Blazer EV to the rear, with a SB-175 on the end. Mike Slominski (retired) had put in charging wiring that can handle 75 amps. That wiring is what the rear SB-50's are routed to. By running a separate charging line, I can use my existing chargers on the existing charging wiring to get up to 75 amps. The separate 4 gauge should give me at least another 75 amps. Once installed, with enough outlets, I would be able to pump 150+ amps into my pack. Perhaps reducing my charge time to 1 hour? Tomorrow afternoon I am going to get with one of the electrical hardware gurus of the SPEAA Chapter. I hope to know where to buy the hardware I need. I also plan to work with him at the Silicon Valley Rally to find what DC current into my pack is a 30 AC amp into the PFC-50. Once I know what DC current into my pack is a 30 AC amp draw, I will know how not to trip any AVCON charging head circuit breakers. I am concerned that the PFC-50 is so clean that drawing more than 32 AC amps won't trigger the AVCON charging head circuitry to shut down, but trip the host's circuit breakers. Tripping the host's circuit breaker would not only be a pain to get reset, worse it would leave a bad EV impression on the host. EVs should work hard not to trip any breakers. I will let you all know how this develops. :-zzz ===== ' ____ ~/__|o\__ '@----- @'---(= . http://geocities.com/brucedp . EV List Editor & RE newswires . http://egroups.com/group/evangel ===== __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute
