The traction battery was run down.... Curiously, it bypassed turtle mode and went straight to shut down. In the 5 years, I did arrive home as a turtle once.
For my Nissan Leaf, this is the video that helped me to open the charge port without any 12 Volts available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SFI5wrnW5I Because I was home, I could even freeze the image with the cable and screen shot it and print it. In this video, the owner had a bad cable release motor... and he showed where it is. Which got me thinking, I could have pulled the connector and hooked 12V to the solenoid :-) But I didn't need to, because the instructions were good enough for reaching the wire behind the charge port. When the battery was reading 12 VDC, I tried hooking up the trickle charger but the blue lights never came on. Eventually, I thought to see what the computers say, and then I shut down and tried again....and charging began. When you're stuck, some silly ideas come to mind. "Oh, I should add a backup pull wire for this release" "Oh, I should put charging posts elsewhere..." Upgrading is easier :-) This would have been the perfect time to draft into service the PVC "conduit" under my new sidewalk.... but the re-digging is a bit more work. Hoping to finish it and re-seed around it before the week is out. Instead, I just put my trash cans across the sidewalk while charging at night, which is what I did when my driveway was unreachable last year :-) On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:06 PM Lee Hart via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Seth Rothenberg via EV wrote: > > The car was so dead, it couldn't open the charge port door. > > I opened the charge port manually, charged the 12V battery. > > Then I realized, the Leaf needed a reboot. Once it booted up, > > it was willing to take a Trickle charge, and once I built > > another L6-30 extension cord, it took Level 2 charge. > > Quite an ordeal! I have a Leaf as well, so your experience is > informative. So you drove until it stopped, and then it was so dead that > it wouldn't let you charge it? In case it happens to me... > > - How did you open the charge port door manually? > - Was the 12v battery dead? Or the traction pack? Or both? > - How did you "reboot" the system? > - Once it finally charged back up, have you observed any capacity > loss, or other consequences? > > Perspiring minds want to know, > Lee Hart > > -- > All children are born engineers. Watch them at play. They're not > just playing; they're experimenting, building and learning. That's > engineering! Then we get them in school and squash it out of them. > (Geoffrey Orsak, Southern Methodist University dean of engineering) > -- > Lee Hart, 814 8th Ave N, Sartell MN 56377, www.sunrise-ev.com > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20210323/9b9cfa19/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
