Re: [EVDL] Nissan Leaf key: $300! Yikes

2018-10-14 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 14/10/18 10:12, EVDL Administrator via EV wrote: On 14 Oct 2018 at 7:57, Tom Parker via EV wrote: My 2016 Leaf has remote charge port opening -- the key fob has a 3rd button, if you hold it down for about 2 seconds, the door opens. Darned if I can see the point of this. How hard could

Re: [EVDL] Nissan Leaf key: $300! Yikes

2018-10-13 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 14/10/18 07:46, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: I meant on the key fob. For the 2011 and 2012 there is only a dash handle to open the door latch. The 2013+ has an electric latch opener, so theoretically it can be opened remotely, but the functions on the wireless interface are severely

Re: [EVDL] Leaf battery pack overheating due to depth of discharge.

2017-06-21 Thread Tom Parker via EV
Lawrence, Is this a 30kWh leaf? We've seen that they will accept charge much faster than the 24kWh leaves, maintaining 50kW for most of the charge to 80%. This will put a lot more I^2R heating into the battery than charging slower. The 24kWh cars average under 25kW for a charge to 80%. How

Re: [EVDL] Nissan Leaf CAN Bus Man in the Middle

2017-03-14 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 14/03/17 07:07, Bill Dube via EV wrote: Outstanding work Tom. Not many folks have the ability (or patience) to tackle this job, but a lot of us will use this. Makes the Leaf battery module so much more useful as a functional unit. To be clear my contribution so far is only * writing a

Re: [EVDL] Nissan Leaf CAN Bus Man in the Middle

2017-03-12 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 13/03/17 04:39, Jay Summet via EV wrote: The next time I use a Leaf pack on an EV I want to be able to just plug it in "unmodified" and make use of the existing BMS and CAN interface, it's good to know that people are making good progress on the "auto" side of this. The BMS is already

[EVDL] Nissan Leaf CAN Bus Man in the Middle

2017-03-12 Thread Tom Parker via EV
I wrote a man in the middle for the leaf battery communication. It uses can4python and Kayak's kcd format to describe the signals. It probably only works on Linux. Source code is here https://carrott.org/git/leaf-can-utils.git It decodes all the messages received on one interface (from the

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

2017-01-27 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 27/01/17 13:36, Collin Kidder via EV wrote: Any logs anyone could send me from a Leaf would be great. But, I might be on to something. Byte 4 (the fifth byte if you start counting at 0) is always a constant value for a given car. It stays the same across all 0x5C0 frames, it stays the same

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

2017-01-26 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 27/01/17 07:29, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: Also, the LBC validation happens without disconnecting the aux battery. I know for sure as I never disconnect the 12V battery and when I swapped my pack for a complete replacement pack from Washington State, the yellow light on the dash came on

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

2017-01-26 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 27/01/17 07:06, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: Did you grab communication from *both* CAN buses? The Leaf's Battery Controller (LBC) communicates via the VCM which is connected to both the EV CAN bus and the normal CAN bus, to the Combination Meter, which is supposed to hold the key that is

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

2017-01-26 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 24/01/17 23:25, Tom Parker via EV wrote: On my car, there is only one frame that isn't repeated continuously after startup (0x603 is sent once, with a single byte payload which is 00 in my captures). I'll try disconnecting the 12v battery tomorrow and see if anything different happens

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

2017-01-24 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 24/01/17 04:07, Ed Blackmond via EV wrote: I am interested in learning how to reset the capacity gauge. Cor replaced the battery cells in my 2011 Leaf about 2000 miles ago. LeafSpy now reports about 62.5AH, but the capacity gauge on the dash hasn't budged. I get over 265 GIDs on a full

Re: [EVDL] Anyone interested in 2015 Leaf drivetrain or interior/exterior/suspension parts?

2017-01-23 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 23/01/17 10:52, Cor van de Water via EV wrote: I sent you a separate email with an idea to avoid a fake Leaf pack and still keep the BMS happy and report SoC. Is anyone trying to reverse engineer the handshake between the Leaf BMS and the rest of the car? As I understand it, the Leaf

Re: [EVDL] Recent Model EV Conversion - CAN and accesories to work..

2017-01-03 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 04/01/17 04:50, Collin Kidder via EV wrote: I don't think that generic sales pitches are acceptable on this list but since it is topically relevant I'd like to quickly mention that I am involved in the creation of many pieces of hardware and software to aid in these things. CANDue:

Re: [EVDL] Japanese leaf charging cable

2016-05-03 Thread Tom Parker via EV
On 05/03/2016 08:28 AM, George Tyler via EV wrote: Hi, here in NZ many people are importing used Nissan Leaf's from Japan. Japan has different voltage and frequency to the supply here, leaf charging cable: 200V 60hz, NZ voltage 230V 50Hz. There is a small transformer in the cable that has to be