[EVDL] excellent EV project cars

Speaking of a goldmine of used EV cars, consider the 400 THINKS that were imported to the USA in the 2012 time frame. They have AC motors, but once the controller goes, its hard to find a working controller. I keep hoping that an energetic EVDL hacker will figure out how to hook up an off the

Re: [EVDL] OT: Re: FrankenVolt photos posted

lee, EV.list does not display your email address so I have to reply to the group. You can reply to me direct at bruni...@usna.edu I too do all my web pages with NOTEPAD Glad to see you do to. One question. I cannot figure out how to save a file in NOTEPAD with no data extension. As it is, I

Re: [EVDL] Destination J1772 hotel charging stations?

I mentioned just charging overnight from a 120v outlet at the hotel and one person noted he has had success with that and his Volt. Which raises a good point. It would be a travesty to leave a Volt or other 50 mile PHEV or someone just needing a 40 mile topoff to leave their car on a hotel L2

Re: [EVDL] Destination J1772 hotel charging stations?

I ask every hotel I stay at for a place to pluyg in (whether I am driving the EV or not). I make the point that any outdoor outlet is suitable and I'll pay the extra $2 for an overnight charge at 120v (40 miles). I insist that they are missing a great opportunity8 if they dont put up a charging

Re: [EVDL] Big Oil’s green makeover - Simple EVSE

These days you can get a dual voltage L2 EVSE for about $199 from Amazon that simply plugs into either a 120v outlet for L1, or the same unit can plug into a 240 V outlet and provide L2. And the EVSE box is in the line cord. Requires nothing more than a nail to hold it up.

Re: [EVDL] Drivability

I think it is a sad distortion catering to FAST charging as the only metric of EV value. Maryland's EV infrastructure study showed that FAST charging only represents 0.3% of EV charging infrastructure leaving the other 99.7% of charging performed WHILE THE VEHICLE IS PARKED AND NOT IN USE. This

Re: [EVDL] EV Digest, Vol 95, Issue 30

> And I would like to see another term thrown in, since charging is so > important. I would like to see the available fast-chargers within a > radius of your location. Ah ha! What "location"? No one uses FAST chargers anywhere near their "location" (home) since the rate for FAST electricity can

Re: [EVDL] V2g for DIY EV's

Watch the digits! Yes even in Smart meters, the Disk WILL go backwards, but the count will always go up. Even in Mechanical meters for the last 30 years, there is differential gear that will only push the count up no matter which way the disk goes. I also did not take the time to watch the

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (Grid Tie!)

I was going to say that an inverter that cannot backfeed the grid is an enormous economic waste of investment because when one is generating say, 8 kW during mid day and one's house is only drawing say 400 Watts, then the rest of the 8kW solar investement is giving NOTHING for its value. Even with

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's

Ah hA! You beat me to it. I was thinking of an optical mouse to sense direction too! Clever. But again, the only answer to solar economy is simply to get a Permit and a NET meter. Done Bob -Original Message- From: EV On Behalf Of Mr. Sharkey via EV Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 3:33

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (light load caution)

Just to clarify... ALL GT inverters use MPPT tracking which means they will produce maximum AC current into the grid at its maximum rated capacity at all times (up to what the solar panels are currently producing). GT inverters are *current sources* that will push that current into the load

Re: [EVDL] V2g for DIY EV's

I dont understand how your system matches your house load without backfeeding the grid. Every GT inverter I know has Max-Peak-Power-Tracking (MPPT) which causes the GT inverter to always deliver max rated power no matter what the incoming volts are. So if it connected to something like a

Re: [EVDL] V2g for DIY EV's

wrote: > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > all meters except NET meters will charge you kWh no matter > > which way the disk goes. > > ...except for the old mechanical meters, which ran backwards when you > generated power. The utilities have "fixed" that little probl

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (economics)

utility, and we also paid for that. There is/was any in our case. Dr. Bob Keeland Louisiana On Wed, May 27, 2020, 3:11 PM Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: I disagree. When you make a $10,000 investment in a solar array, any sun that falls on it and does not give you retail value in return

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (economics)

No one needs to pay the greedy utility for it. When my solar arrays are producing during the day, that is also the PEAK grid load where the utilites are buying their power from other sources at the highest rate. But they pay me (in kWh) at the going average rate. Then at night when I ask for it

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (economics)

> , I can’t simply combine the 12 panels into one string, > because even though the voltage would be very good, > the total power is higher than the inverter can handle on a single string > (3.7kW max per string). I was under the impression that you can connect an oversupply of solar to most MPPT

Re: [EVDL] : V2g for DIY EV's (economics)

No, less. Around here, maybe 35% of our electricity comes from Nuclear. BUT the nuclear plant can go down sometimes too (almost instantly), so the local utility has to have enough SPINNING RESRVE to equal the largest unit (of 2) of the nuclear plant (900 MW). That amount of existing spinning

Re: [EVDL] Faking out your EV so it will accept solar input while driving.

On my two solar prius and the Frankenvolt,(http://aprs.org/my-EVs.html) about the most solar panels that will fit are about 240 watts. Since the volt is said to consume over 500 watts *just-being-on" the more interesting question is where is all that going. Are the CPUs all powered from the 12v

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator (two-phase 240 VAC)

tinghouse generators at > Niagara Falls, for example, produced two-phase. I doubt you will find many > Two Phase service nowadays though. > > On Thursday, July 30, 2020, 12:43:19 PM CDT, EVDL Administrator via EV > wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2020 at 10:58, Robert Bruninga via EV

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator (Lower angle for dual orthogonal arrays)

if that 3rd string somehow shorts out the > other 2. > > Last, user bcroe from the solarpaneltalk.com forum website has an > east/west array: > > https://s93.photobucket.com/user/bcroe/library/ENERGY%2520CONSERVATION/East%2520West%2520Facing%2520Solar%2520Array# > ! > > >

Re: [EVDL] Solar powered vehicle panel requirements.

When I put a small flat 4'x6' utility trailer on my Prius, the mileage went from 55 down to 40! And that was with no load or added wind drag other than the trailer. So it is quite silly to think one can add a trailer to get SOlar without losing more in the trade! Bob On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at

Re: [EVDL] Solar powered vehicle panel requirements.

My 3 solar panels (240W) on my Franken-Volt add about 30 miles a week. See http://aprs.org/my-EVs.html Bob On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 4:11 AM Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > To: ev@lists.evdl.org > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Solar powered vehicle panel requirements. > Message-ID: > Content-Type:

Re: [EVDL] Chevy Bolt EV towing capacity NOT!

The towing restrictions are for the most stupid idiots among us that would try to tow Large things at 85 MPH and then blame everyone else for their problems. I tow my boat, COM trailer, and utility trailers behind my prius locally. I'd be a fool to try to tow an RV trailer across country though.

Re: [EVDL] Chevy Bolt EV towing ... aaerodynamics

> I used to have a Saab 900 Turbo and I was towing a trailer full of tall > furniture > at 55 and after a while realized I was in continuously in turbo. > I bet it was the bad aerodynamics. Talking about aerodynamics. I severely modified my Chevy Volt to add 250W of solar panels, but I'm still

Re: [EVDL] (offt) h2 won’t overtake EVs> hampered by science & CO2 lies

The #1 problem with most CO2 assessments of EV emissions is they take the Grid mix (say 65% coal and Natural gas, etc) and apply that to the EV while surveys show that 85% of EV buyers also *BUY* 100% clean electricity either from their own solar panels, or by signing up for Wind from their

Re: [EVDL] (offt) h2 won’t overtake EVs> hampered by science & CO2 lies

ut I have no data on this. - Mark Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Jun 4, 2020, at 8:41 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV > wrote: > > The #1 problem with most CO2 assessments of EV emissions is they take > the Grid mix (say 65% coal and Natural gas, etc) and apply that to the > E

Re: [EVDL] Question about charging small LiIon batteries

I agree. I needed a 2.5v zener reference voltage (half way on a 5v system). It took a 3.9v zener to get the 2.5v I needed when biasing it with something like a 10k resistor... Bob -Original Message- From: EV On Behalf Of Lee Hart via EV Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 4:10 PM To: Electric

Re: [EVDL] Faking out your EV so it will accept solar input while driving.

Re safety. My original solar prius used 15 series panels to get to 240 VDC to parallel into the HV DC system. Worked great... BUT after a few years, I noticed that while washing the car in the sun, I'd get little shocks each time my sponge went over the edge between adjacent fiberglass solar

Re: [EVDL] EV AC cooling efficiency vs ICE

ures > can also be expected to increase faster near the Prius, which will lower > COP. > > My guess is other ICE vehicles do worse than the Prius, as they do not have > a traction battery that allows the ICE to run intermittently at an decent > efficiency point while operating th

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator

If you can find an off-grid inverter with 300 VDC input then I sure want to know about it! Really... that is the holy grail... All off-grid inverets I see are designed for 48 volts for compatibility with batteries. You only see 300-500 VDC input on Grid inverters since there are no batteries.

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator

There is a company (called Plugout I think) working on a 3kw and 5kw version but best I can tell, they are taking the simple way out. They are just taking a normal inverter (designed for HVDC input for Europe (220 VAC) and then selling you an autotransformer to convert to split phase 240 VAC.

[EVDL] EV AC cooling efficiency vs ICE

A huge advantage of EVs is sitting at an event (or drivein movie) in AC comfort on a hot day without an engine running. Id like to come up with some numbers to describe the total heat generated by an ICE at idle running its AC compared to an EV. Here is a technical paper.

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator

Yes, how much are they? Single or 3 phase but no mention of 240 VAC two phase? And is that 9 amps at 115 or 230? I guess it is a 2kw nominal inverter? Bob On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:34 PM Lee Hart wrote: > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > If you can find an off-grid inverter wit

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator

Yes, that looks promising.. How much is the 3 or 5kw model? Bob On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:44 PM Willie via EV wrote: > > > On 7/29/20 7:58 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > If you can find an off-grid inverter with 300 VDC input then I sure want > to > >

Re: [EVDL] prius as generator

True, south always better. But the point is that then you need an inverter with twice the capacity.. The topic being discussed is being able to share an inverter with additional panels facing a different direction. Key points: 1) when not facing due south, panels should be less tilted since the

Re: [EVDL] Can I run an electric car cable across the pavement and could people claim if they trip?

Or you can run it over the sidewalk about 7' high as shown in the 4th row of pictures on this page: AFM Environmental EV Initiatives (aprs.org) using a swing-oiut conduit. Bob On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 2:19 AM Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote: > Yes they could sue so I

Re: [EVDL] [GGEVA] EVs not greener than fossil-fuel vehicles?

My preferred comparison for the impact of EV's is simply that it takes about 12 solar panels (3 kW) per EV in the USA to provide the average 40 mile daily usage. IE, enough solar panels to cover one parking space provides electric transportation "for life". Bob, WB4APR On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at

Re: [EVDL] All's not well with UK public charging

> > > > Oh, I remember back in the late 70s, a door to door salesman wanted to > > sell me a microwave oven. They had just come out and were ridiculously > > Totally unrelated, but I bought our microwave in 1973 and we use it every day for 47 years and it is still working fine. No electronics,

[EVDL] Woodie Prius is for sale

EV list. My 2005 Woodie Prius needs two new balanced cells to put it back on the road. I have the cells, but my health is deteriorating so fast, I will never get to it. May as well put it up for adoption. Just GOOGLE the words woodie prius and select images and most of the top ten images are

[EVDL] Prius Prime or RAV4 Plugin Prime?

I Need a new (and final) car for Wife. For plugin SUV's it looks like the Toyota RAV4 Prime is a winner across the board. 42 Miles EV range and 3 full size back row seats. (compared to Prius Prime range of only 25 mi.) Her daily average mileage is on the order of 35 mi+. She has driven only

Re: [EVDL] Leaf 12 v battery.

> I would say that most bad things happen to cars when they are in motion... In simple terms, I'd say the opposite. Most bad things happen (fires and bringing dow the house) occur when the cars are parked and plugged-in. And that is the #1 advantage of an EV, which is available for charigng 95%

Re: [EVDL] miniature train EV project

Power the rails with a safe 24VAC and use that to keep a constant charge on the batteries. That should reduce the battery seize requirement by an order of magnitude. The charge current is not nearly enough to power the train in real time, but the train probably spends half its time sitting and

Re: [EVDL] 2035 GM will cease ICE production

I find it challenging when people fall back on the "well EV's are only 2% of production today" while ignoring the *growth* of doubling every year. That means 2% today. 4% in 2022, 8% in 2023, 16% in 2024, 32% in 2025, 64% in 2026 and DONE by 2027. If today's growth rate remains constant. It

Re: [EVDL] 2035 GM will cease ICE production

> but we try to do our part hoping that now is the time to put out > the sign planting a seed and hoping it will grow. Amen! THe EV Charging OUtlet sign is the most important part. Not so much for the 1%R that might actually need a charge but for the other 99% to see everyday and subliminally

[EVDL] Green car reports - illegible?

I subscribe to Green Car Reports and really enjoy their news and their format. But I simply cannot see/read their embedded links. They use a light green font for links and I have to hold my laptop up to my eyes or use a magnifier to be able to read the link. I have emailed my objection to their

Re: [EVDL] Green car reports - illegible. - FIX

I still request viewers email their complaint to GreenCarReports... Maybe they will respond to more of us But There is a "fix" under windows 10. Press and hold the left Shift and ALT keys and then press the prt-screen key.. It turns the screen into white font on black screen and LINKS become a

[EVDL] Fwd: Bob's EV and SOlar obsession in Baltimore Sun

I was interviewed by columnist Dan Rodericks of the Baltimore Sun and' exchanged several dozen emails to arrive at this column; https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0620-20210618-zgplxgdbfza2jby6uhhqgbgyna-story.html It covers my obsession of EV's, solar and

Re: [EVDL] Fwd: Bob's EV and SOlar obsession in Baltimore Sun

for field operations from12v. Bob, WB4APR On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 6:18 PM EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > > On 19 Jun 2021 at 15:25, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > > https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-06 > > 20-20210618-zgplx

Re: [EVDL] The state of EV's 1890 to 1922

drive. > > > Sent from AT Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Sunday, May 9, 2021, 4:10 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV > wrote: > > > Im reading "The Electric car in America 1890 - 1922" and throughout, > > it prints articles (mostly ads) claiming 35, 50 and 100 mile range

Re: [EVDL] Improving EV range aerodynamics when towing a boat or trailer.

Remember that air resistance goes up as the cube of speed. So just cutting speed 20% will reduce the wind load about half Bob On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:08 PM Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, how much of the loss is due to air resistance ? > You might try driving at half the

[EVDL] Energy Improvements ...

For what it is worth, I researched the improvements in battery capacity since the Edison Nickel-iron EV battery in the 1900's. Looks like it went from 20 Whr/kg to 400 Whr/kg on the latest Tesla cells. A 20-to-1 improvement. For solar, I use the factor of about 200-to-one since 1970. Bob, On

[EVDL] The state of EV's 1890 to 1922

> Im reading "The Electric car in America 1890 - 1922" and throughout, > it prints articles (mostly ads) claiming 35, 50 and 100 mile ranges but NONE > of > those were made under peer review condition. Throughout, the real > honest reporting concluded over and over again, that about 20-25 miles

Re: [EVDL] Energy Improvements ...

Was not linear. A full 50% of that battery improvement was in the last year. And the 20-to-1 improvement turned a 1900's 20 mile car into a very practical 400 mile car Bob On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 7:47 PM Lee Hart via EV wrote: > > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > For what it

Re: [EVDL] Wash. will try again to for EV sales mandate

This has been my proposal all along. Raise EV road use tax by X and raise the gas drivers ENVIRONMENTAL USE tax by the same amount - X. See http://aprs.org/EV-and-gas-taxes.html Bob On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 2:27 PM Charles Galpin via EV wrote: > > I agree. But wouldn’t a gas tax basically

Re: [EVDL] The state of EV's 1890 to 1922

wrote: > > On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 03:28, Robert Bruninga via EV > wrote: > > > Wind drag only becomes significant beginning at about 45 MPH > > Tell that to a cyclist. > > This was something that automotive designers used to say years ago and > what they meant w

Re: [EVDL] The state of EV's 1890 to 1922m - cube

l Message -- > From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" > Subject: Re: [EVDL] The state of EV's 1890 to 1922 > > >Bingo, I re-read my email and when I said it goes up significantly > >above 45, I omitted the fact (that you allude to) is that it goes up > >as the CUBE o

Re: [EVDL] The state of EV's 1890 to 1922m - cube

e of drag goes up as the > Cube of velocity. > > On Sun, May 16, 2021 Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > > > > square of velocity. But, yes, not linear. > > > ------ Original Message -- > > From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" > > Subject: Re: [EVDL] The

Re: [EVDL] opinion article on hydrogen

Yep, gas and electricity might be about equal for heating, but with a heatppump AND investing in home solar, you can lock in your home heat forever.Renewable adn cheaper in the logn run. Bob On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 7:40 PM EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: > > On 9 May 2021 at 14:38, Jim Walls

[EVDL] Vehicle to grid power?

does anyone know of any vehicles with 120v outlets that are bigger than 150 watts? Im working on an article talking about the Ford F150's 10kw outlet power. I want to be sure to mention any other vehicles that have it bob ___ Address messages to

Re: [EVDL] small UPS

I found a big 3 kW UPS that was being tossed because the batteries were dead. It ran on 72 volts. six gel cells. I brought it home and bought six deep cycle external lead acids and use it for my house primary backup. Unfortunately in the 6 years I have had it, we have never lost power for

Re: [EVDL] Ford F-150 Reveal - Great for everyone!

Each 14 MPG gas guzzling pickup commuter that gets taken off the road for a new F150 Lightening, accomplishes more for the environment and all of us than maybe three other EV purchases. So this is a WIN-WIN all the way around. FINALLY something I can talk about in common with the "good ole boys"

Re: [EVDL] Vehicle to grid power?

kw inverters to Chevy Volts and many > other EVs: > https://www.evextend.com/Products.php > > My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key > > May 25, 2021 5:19 PM, "paul dove via EV" wrote: > > > The Ford F-150 EV > > > > Sent from AT Yah

[EVDL] EV Signs for your vehicle

Problem Solved. My wife would not allow me to put ELECTRIC decals on her brand new Prius Prime plugin whereas to me, there is nothing more important about driving an EV than making sure others can SEE it's electric. But since I can no longer drive my highly visible decal'ed TH!NK.nor my

[EVDL] EV charging rates

In charging, the car makes the difference! In about the middle of this page is a table that shows the variety of charging rates in Miles per-hour for a variety of Tesla's on the variety of electrical outlets

Re: [EVDL] EV charging rates

I assume you are talking about a 50 amp circuit that then operates at 40A. 40*240*4 = 38 kWh or about 640 Whrs/mile (pretty high)... >From the Table, the Teslas get from 25 to 37 Mph charging. FOr you to go 60mi is 15 MPh charging which is about half as efficient, Bob On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 2:22

Re: [EVDL] Bolt battery power?

deep freeze, minimal lights, 50-100W for > computer/network systems. > > My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key > > April 19, 2021 10:55 AM, "Robert Bruninga via EV" wrote: > > > A front cover article in the National Ham radio magazine promote

Re: [EVDL] Fixing my over volt charger - with diodes

I do this all the time. Buy open fram surplus DC power supplies rated at 15.0 volts and drop it with one diode to 14.2 volts constant voltage or two diodes to 13.6 volts. Bob, WB4APR On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 7:44 PM Bill Dube via EV wrote: > > A simple resistor won't limit the output voltage

Re: [EVDL] Solar Panels On EV - shocking!

> > > Solar cells bonded to the car directly require some sort of clear resin, > > > epoxy, or polymer. This usually only lasts about a year before it starts > > > to break down from UV damage. ... > > Shocking Lesson: I was preparing to show my solar prius one day and used a > damp cloth and

Re: [EVDL] Bolt battery power?

> A front cover article in the National Ham radio magazine promoted the > value of the EV for mobile radio operating during > drive-everywhere-contesting. But to my surprise, he recommended NOT > connecting to the Bolt electrical system due to concerns over dealer > warranty issues if anything

Re: [EVDL] Tesla to replace lead acid 12v for Greenlife Lithium

I use 20 Ah batteriy gel cells (over 20 years old) for my THINK EV and all my 3 prius since I had a supply of them and they work fine though smaller than originals But there is a shorter park-life of a few weeks because there is a small load on the battery while parked and it adds up. I think

Re: [EVDL] list of tree hugger charging locations, charging signs

My local sign company makes the EV CHARGING OUTLET signs for me for about $25 but in quantities of 25, I think the price was less than $15. FREE SIGNS: I found that if I talked someone with an outdoor outlet into putting up a sign, that then they stopped the deal or lost interest then when I

Re: [EVDL] Updating old EV truck with genset?

Pardon my language, but this idea as stated is lunacy. Carrying a Genset to try to drive the truck is crazy. Have you looked at the size of a 25 kW generator? It usually comes witha a trailer or truck to move it. On the other hand, carrying a 5 kW genset to "charge" the battery while parked

Re: [EVDL] 2035 GM will cease ICE production

I have an EV CHARGING OUTLET sign on the power pole down by the street over my L1 charging outlet. It would take a long time to get across country by using it, since it would take a day and a half for each full charge of a Model S for example and there is not much to do in my culdesac. It is

Re: [EVDL] Tesla question for Phil

I really wanted to experiment with the DC power connector for V-2-G or V-to-home till I measured my home under grid-down conditions and found that my entiere house with LED lights, and the refrigerator draw only about 700 to 800 watts under emergency conditions and so I now have simple 1500W

Re: [EVDL] J1772 vs Nema flat blade insertion cycles for EV

Easy way to tell (maybe) is to open it up and see if it has a conventional small 60 Hz transformer to power its internal 12 V electronics. If so, 240 VAC will likely overvoltage those low voltage circuits (operating at 12 V). On the other hand, if it does not have a small 12 v transformer, then

Re: [EVDL] BYD Blade

Has anyone found a nice source for "EV" face masks? Its a good place to advertise. bob > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [EVDL] free piston generators

I assume in this sentence you meant "plugin-hybrid": "The greater the EV range that a hybrid has, the bigger the improvement." Hybrids don't have "EV ranges" unless 1 gentle mile or so is considered "range". During my EV eganguelising I am forever correcting people who think a hybrid is an EV.

Re: [EVDL] EV trailer light wiring Bolt & Tesla

The resistor is far more reliable than the modern DC switching electronics th ey put in consumer bulbs. My LED bulbs throughout the house fail about one evey month or so (ouit of 50 and not a single one has been due to the LED, but due to the voltage regulating electronics. A series resistor is

[EVDL] free piston generators

I guess I had seen this before, but I dont see why it cannot be really built efficientloy and haved a great market in the EV range extending application: Could free-piston range extenders broaden the electric-truck horizon? (greencarreports.com)

Re: [EVDL] Tesla question for Phil

When the refer defrost strip-heater kicks in and my house is on the 1.5 kW inverter, it drops the load and we go dark. But then simply cycling power restores is because the drop of power resets the "energy-star" design will NOT let the defrost come on when power is restored, so you probably get

Re: [EVDL] Projects, - EV's, solar and 365 VDC around the home

You hit the nail on the head. The migration of all our high-power systems to HV DC is the topic of my book (EV's, Solar', heatpumps, and all modern power supplies). Any power device that uses "variable speed" such as new airconditioners and other appliances are internally using 365 VDC which is a

Re: [EVDL] Took the Tesla Y plunge, no more Fossil Fools - Earth-Return

Sometimes in the field I have run over 3000 feet of #22 hookup wire to run several hundred watts from my car for ham-radio camping using ground-return. See: APRS SWER Power Distribution If your solar is a series string array, then the voltage is approaching 500

Re: [EVDL] Projects

My Geo-source heatpump used four 300' deep wells of 4" diameter but the drilling and pipe itself cost $14,000.. Bob On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:41 PM Peri Hartman via EV wrote: > Another thought, which might be more effective, is to drill vertically > and insert a loop of small diameter pipe.

Re: [EVDL] Projects -- basement ground-source

The cheapest DIY ground-source heating is to hang an old Air Conditioner from the floor joists of a popular central room in the house and cut a hole in the floor to connect the hot side of the AC to the room. The cold side remains in the basement air. A 10,000 BTU AC unit becomes a 20,000 BTu

Re: [EVDL] Took the Tesla Y plunge, no more Fossil Fools - Earth-Return

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 9:50 PM (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > Transformerless inverters are lower cost and higher efficiency, with the > down side that > that must have 600V isolation. It isn't just that the iso check is > "annoying", if there is leakage once the contactors close, it's likely that >

Re: [EVDL] Projects -- basement ground-source

eeland > Louisiana > > Sent from my iPhone 7 > > > On Mar 21, 2021, at 1:28 PM, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > > > > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > >> The cheapest DIY ground-source heating is to hang an old Air > >> Conditioner from the floor joists of a

Re: [EVDL] Took the Tesla Y plunge, no more Fossil Fools - Now Solar

When I post about the huge savings with home solar (Grid tied)(50% the cost of the utility) I often get pushback from several people such as Mr. Keeland and I just found out why. His state Louisianna gets an "F" on renewables. Here are the states: The 2019 Community Power Scorecard – Institute

[EVDL] Fwd: EV List

I finally consolidated the lists of EVs and PHEV's into a single web page to make it easy to show people the 62 EV's now on the market. http://aprs.org/evs.html Bob -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Re: [EVDL] Took the Tesla Y plunge, no more Fossil Fools - Now Solar

The one thing that off-grid battery systems cannot do is store up the DOUBLE solar energy available in the summer for use in the winter. As a result, the off-grid system has to be drastically overbuilt for the winter and has wasted energy (investment) in the summer.. Bummer about the new rates

Re: [EVDL] air dam - impaled on parking log

My stuck-on-a-concrete-parking-log was: Ford Windstar bumped up only about an inch onto the concrete parking log and one-in-a-million, the re-bar rod holding the concrete log in place stuck up about a fraction of an inch and impailed the car through an existing 1 " hole in the front axel

Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Your mail may arrive by EV - or it may not

About 2/3rds of all residences are single family homes by national census. IE, fully 1/3rd generally cannot conveniently own an EV. I used that figure in my talks until I got statistics relevant to Maryland. In Maryland (and presumably other mid-atlantic urban states) the figure is closer to

Re: [EVDL] air dam - Buying a Tesla

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Re: [EVDL] My EV trike pickup space was occupied by a car. Fun with Volt packs

Simple question. Confirm? 1) There is a BMS module on each battery block. 2) Even if not connected to the BMS comm cable the minimum BMS chip across each cell does provide a very small amount of overvotage cell balancing if a cell starts to move above a crticical voltage. 3) It can NOT actively

Re: [EVDL] Apartment dwellers, was: Your mail may arrive by EV - or it may not

ivers-license/425169/ > > Note: I do realize that there are appartment dwellers that do have parking > spaces and don't have EV charging, which is probably a significant issue to > those folks. However, on a nationwide basis, the percentage of people who > won't buy an EV solely fo

[EVDL] Bolt battery power?

A front cover article in the National Ham radio magazine promoted the value of the EV for mobile radio operating during drive-everywhere-contesting. But to my surprise, he recommended NOT connecting to the Bolt electrical system due to concerns over dealer warranty issues if anything was

Re: [EVDL] From my nissan leaf .com: Why the Leaf 12v system undercharges the 12v battery.

Imeasured my Prius and got somewhere between 10 to 25 mA always-on load while parked. That is a LOT! Bob On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:46 AM Glenn Brooks via EV wrote: > > Hmm, Phil’s comment about battery drain is very interesting. Up until last > year, My daughter had an older Lexus SUV hybrid

Re: [EVDL] Solar Panels On EV - shocking!

> > Solar cells bonded to the car directly require some sort of clear resin, > > epoxy, or polymer. This usually only lasts about a year before it starts > > to break down from UV damage. ... Shocking Lesson: I was preparing to show my solar prius one day and used a damp cloth and water to

Re: [EVDL] From my nissan leaf .com: Why the Leaf 12v system undercharges the 12v battery.

what is the "load dump" problem? Bob On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:04 PM (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > > I have definitely seen failures of the DC-DC (PCS) in Tesla Model 3's from > people installing aftermarket Lithiums. The load dump problem is real! I > have one sitting here that I did an autopsy

Re: [EVDL] DC/DC converter at Electronic Goldmine - solar

I tested over a dozen various AC/DC power supplies lying around the lab and found that all of them worked on DC (except for one, and it began tgo work when I flipped the AC line cord over. On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:26 PM Lee Hart via EV wrote: > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > FWI

Re: [EVDL] DC/DC converter at Electronic Goldmine - solar

THe one or two that I tested on lowvoltage input seemed to work OK. They are so cheap that it doesnt hurt to try. bob On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:26 PM Lee Hart via EV wrote: > Robert Bruninga via EV wrote: > > FWIW, I have a 72 volt UPS for some house backup power, but there are

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