Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-11 Thread Cor van de Water via EV
MeanWell specifies almost all their AC supplies also for DC powering, typically 130-370vdc for a 90-264vac unit. I have many supplies for rack mount servers, several are wide input, 12v output AND have a trim input pin that allows the voltage to be trimmed up to the overvoltage threshold. Besides

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-11 Thread EVDL Administrator via EV
On 11 Nov 2019 at 10:07, John Lussmyer via EV wrote: > So, it sounds like I need to find a real DC-DC converter that can take 330vdc > and make 13.8vdc. Could you use (say) three 120v converters, each connected to part of the battery, with their outputs in parallel through large diodes? David R

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-11 Thread Lee Hart via EV
John Lussmyer via EV wrote: On Mon Nov 11 09:47:56 PST 2019 ev@lists.evdl.org said: cor.vandewa...@gmail.com said: You do not really have a ground fault, it seems your power supplies have an input circuit that causes a small current to ground John, are these built as DC/DC converters? Or are

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-11 Thread John Lussmyer via EV
On Mon Nov 11 09:47:56 PST 2019 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >John, are these built as DC/DC converters? Or are the AC-input power >supplies that you are using with a DC input? The fun part is that I also have a couple of 600W supplies that put out 50A @13.2 V (a bit low), and these do NOT have any no

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-11 Thread John Lussmyer via EV
On Mon Nov 11 09:47:56 PST 2019 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >cor.vandewa...@gmail.com said: >>> You do not really have a ground fault, it seems your power supplies have an >>> input circuit that causes a small current to ground > >John, are these built as DC/DC converters? Or are the AC-input power >su

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-11 Thread Lee Hart via EV
cor.vandewa...@gmail.com said: You do not really have a ground fault, it seems your power supplies have an input circuit that causes a small current to ground John, are these built as DC/DC converters? Or are the AC-input power supplies that you are using with a DC input? AC power supplies u

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-10 Thread John Lussmyer via EV
On Sun Nov 10 15:05:24 PST 2019 cor.vandewa...@gmail.com said: >You do not really have a ground fault, it seems your power supplies have an >input circuit that causes a small current to ground, possibly they have a >MOV or other protective device on their input or a discharge resistor that >takes c

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-10 Thread Cor van de Water via EV
John, You do not really have a ground fault, it seems your power supplies have an input circuit that causes a small current to ground, possibly they have a MOV or other protective device on their input or a discharge resistor that takes care of the required removal of voltage from input capacitor w

Re: [EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-10 Thread Marco Gaxiola via EV
On my opinion John, If you were able to properly isolate that fault to ground right to your DC-DC converters, you should fix that (independently how critical those DCDC are for your Zilla or anything else). On a HV system, safety is the most important thing to be taken into consideration over

[EVDL] Ground Fault

2019-11-10 Thread John Lussmyer via EV
I seem to have a ground fault in my truck. I was working on the BMS, and when my finger touched one of the busbars, I got a shock. (forearm was leaning on the truck frame.) To find where it was coming from, I put a 1K resistor in series with my meter lead, tied the other end to ground, and set th