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- Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:56 am
- Forum: ECCPLC C1 ev'ie
- Topic: Charging adaptors
- Replies: 5
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Charging adaptors
As there is no board dedicated to charging, and the fact that charging covers all cars, I thought I would start the thread here - as it is me and I am wanting one for my citroen C1 ev'ie car. My car has a dumb charger in it - all it wants to see is 240 volt mains power and it will draw what it requi...
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 10:49 am
- Forum: ECCPLC C1 ev'ie
- Topic: My Citroen C1 Ev'ie blog
- Replies: 31
- Views: 73343
Re: My Citroen C1 Ev'ie blog
Hi Tim, I also think option #2 is the best for myself at the moment. I can envisage a 16 amp commando socket with a J1772 adaptor, that will plug in to the car creating a J1772 socket for me to put the charging lead in to. A nice neat, inline adaptor. I think I will have to take the time to draw up ...
- Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:33 am
- Forum: ECCPLC C1 ev'ie
- Topic: My Citroen C1 Ev'ie blog
- Replies: 31
- Views: 73343
Re: My Citroen C1 Ev'ie blog
I had one of the free home charger fitted at my house by Polar. Such a shame that I cannot use it !!!! It has got a type 1 J1772 lead hard wired in to it, where as my car has got a 16 amp type plug. I have not been able to find an adaptor or converter plug anywhere - so if anyone knows of one, pleas...
- Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:24 am
- Forum: Cars,Vans and other road vehicles
- Topic: CT&T E Zone range low
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33585
Re: CT&T E Zone range low
25 miles with almost fully charged batteries - that seems much better. Also, with new batteries they do take a few cycles to bed in until you can get their full capacity out of them. As you are reading the SG on these - I take it they are wet cells. Another thing to take in to account is watering th...
- Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:01 pm
- Forum: Cars,Vans and other road vehicles
- Topic: CT&T E Zone range low
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33585
Re: CT&T E Zone range low
Cruising at 25mph with a voltage of 70 means the batteries are less than 12 v each - this does not seem right. I would expect I higher voltage at such a low speed, or the low voltage maybe caused by one bad bettery in the pack. Another thing to consider is the rolling resistance of the car. If it is...
- Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:38 am
- Forum: Cars,Vans and other road vehicles
- Topic: CT&T E Zone range low
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33585
Re: CT&T E Zone range low
Hi Reg, Interesting that you say the voltage can drop as low as 52 volts under heavy load - this to me seems too low. That is 8.6 volts per battery. They should not drop that low - I suspect that you have got at least one bad battery in your pack - and the pack is only as strong as it's weakest memb...
- Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:09 pm
- Forum: Cars,Vans and other road vehicles
- Topic: CT&T E Zone range low
- Replies: 9
- Views: 33585
Re: CT&T E Zone range low
Hi Reg, I have to say that range does seem very low. I had a gwiz, which had 8 * 200ah 6v Trojans in it ( 9.6kwh ) and I could get a good 40 mile range. I am surprised that you are only getting 14 miles out of it. Is it a direct drive? or does it have any type of auto gearbox on it? Are you able to ...
- Thu May 30, 2013 11:18 am
- Forum: ECCPLC C1 ev'ie
- Topic: 2010 Citroen C1 VTR Electricity ELECTRIC CAR on eBay
- Replies: 12
- Views: 34905
Re: 2010 Citroen C1 VTR Electricity ELECTRIC CAR on eBay
The only other thing I have noticed with these cars is that the BMS also is the enabler for the charger - with a dead BMS the charger will no operate. The charger has 2 pairs of wires going to the BMS - the first is the on off pair and the second is the charge rate pair - this needs 5 volts across i...
- Fri May 24, 2013 3:08 pm
- Forum: ECCPLC C1 ev'ie
- Topic: J1772 Charging points
- Replies: 5
- Views: 17865
J1772 Charging points
Okay, I have taken the up the offer of a free J1772 Chargemaster point and had it installed at home. Problem is that I am not able to plug it directly in to my car as I have a "dumb" charger that just wants 13amp 240 volt from a standard UK household plug. My car has got a 16 amp commando ...
- Wed May 15, 2013 2:46 pm
- Forum: ECCPLC C1 ev'ie
- Topic: 2010 Citroen C1 VTR Electricity ELECTRIC CAR on eBay
- Replies: 12
- Views: 34905
Re: 2010 Citroen C1 VTR Electricity ELECTRIC CAR on eBay
Umm, yes it does seem a bit expensive for a damaged one. I know that my BMS set me back 900+ VAT and then 100's more to have it fitted. This looks like the box will all of the bleed resistors for the BMS is damaged - so it may cost even more to have replaced and fixed - and that is assuming that thi...