I hope the amazing brain trust can help me again. I've got my civic running again 144volts of lifepo. I have installed a second contactor on the pack negative of battery pack then to shunt to contactor then contactor to controller - the bms has control over this contactor; the zilla has control over the main contactor on the positive side. Only while charging does this negative contactor get quite hot. the negative of the charger comes in on the pack neg side of the contactor. Juice isn't really running through the contactor or is it? It should be flowing to the battery away from the contactor. the charge wire connected to the contactor isn't particularly warm but the body of the contactor is hot. what is up? charger runs at 30 amps contactor is Tyco Kilovac 500A 320VDC LEV200
2nd question I am having a little trouble trouble shooting why the Orion BMS is not limiting current. They gave me steps to check on but could I trouble you guys for the explanation of what the zilla hairball does with the throttle pot input? Is that 0 to 5k pot controlling voltage in the hairball? As you step on the pedal the resistance increases and reduces voltage to signal more juice? I would really like to understand what is happening, as it makes it easier to troubleshoot. The Orion BMS has an analog discharge current limit signal that is 0 - 5 volts connecting that through a diode to one side of the pot was the recommended way to hook it up. This is where my brain fuzzes over. I may just have my diode in backwards but I was hoping to get an explanation of how this all works. Thanks so much 92 civic HB 144v Calb 180 SE, Zilla 1k LV, Orion BMS, Elcon 5k charger, 70 mile range to 80% Thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130623/49929043/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
