This mount here is where the original engine was mounted to. Later on I will add more square tube that goes further along the face of the transmission.
Yeah good thanks mate, starting working at the job I was doing before being laid off during corona so I’m really happy. I’ve given up on esk8 completely, sold most of my stuff recently and discovered the 10cycle 12s5p that I spent $800 on was dead lmao
Glad to hear there’s still interest. Its moving at a glacial pace (maybe slower than that, what with accelerating global warming) but its better than not at all.
Going to the wreckers today to get a Prius CV shaft to cut and weld to the current shafts. I will get custom CV shafts made up on the final product once proof of concept stage has been achieved
Phone decided to remind me how long I’ve been working on this.
Went to the wreckers to get my CV shaft but wasn’t successful. Didn’t have the right tool with me. I’ve bought the diff side CV boot on eBay to speed things up a bit, I can go back to the wreckers to get a half shaft.
Now that the transmission is in I’m starting to get a better feel for how to improve on the design, as well as how to mount other components like the inverter, battery and other electronics. On the left side of the transmission with the box steel, I’m gonna build a sorta cage that will hold the inverter and have some room for batteries when those come eventually. This will give the whole thing more rigidity, as well as giving more mounting points as there is a stabiliser bar that isn’t currently being used
So here’s what I’m kinda thinking. To the left of the inverter is enough space for a 12v battery, and underneath is plenty of space for some high voltage action. Picking up part of a CV shaft from the post office today so we’ll mock that up too.
Last photo gives a better idea of how I have the transmission mounted underneath, and the path for the shaft too
With lithium batteries, industry standard is to say that a cell is pretty much end-of-life when it can only hold 80% of its original capacity. If those cells are only holding 60% of their original capacity, they might be toast.
You show me where I can buy a full pack for this cheap, the specs listed are generic specs given to used Nissan Leaf packs. Everyone selling these uses the same specs. It could have any amount of life left. Honestly I just need a large bank of batteries for cheap, as that’s the limiting factor for what I’m doing
Another thing I would do with that pack is halve the voltage to ~200v which is more than plenty which will give me more range and better compatibility with the hardware
I’m well aware that the Gen1 packs were no good. Nissan didn’t watercool them and so people seen very significant degradataion, far quicker than what should have been possible.
I think you forget the situation where I don’t have batteries and buying cheap bad batteries is gonna be beter than no batteries
So we’re back again. Since the last update I’ve moved towns, started moving back to old town, taught myself Python, gotten myself a full time job coding python every day, started training a cool ML model for sports, and even got a new graphics card for my PC because clearly that’s the most exciting update
Over Christmas I was given a new welder so I figured it was time to put some proper hours into fabrication. I also got a new set of drill bits and some cutting fluid, which if course has made a huge different in being able to drill a hole
This show the space underneath, which will be used for storing the batteries. You can see on the right side, at the back of the transmission is two bits of metal not connected. That was a test fitment for another mount, with that being my next point of effort
The blue lines show where I will be adding some more tube steel, so that the setup is properly triangulated and supported on every side
From here, the last step is to acquire the control board for the inverter, test the batteries and make sure I’m getting a decently high voltage (gonna be starting at like 70-80v) so we can get it rolling
So today the Laser underwent another trailer journey, I’m hoping this is the last time it gets moved like this before it moves under its own power. Unfortunately the rear plastic window Venetian fell off mid transit, and we also smashed a rear light while pushing it into its current resting place. I never half ass anything
This trip was a good test of the welds for the pieces I engineered. While not every bolt was fully tightened, and the main trans was still supported by wood underneath, this showed that at least the welds won’t fall apart under mild movement
Edit: also peep the power pole in the middle of the court/cul-de-sac, I’ve witnessed it get reversed into at least once
this is one of my favorite threads on this forum.
