MY EV , 85 electric fiero

MY EV , 85 electric fiero
A conversion of a gas engine powered car to 100% plug in electric.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Digital Dash.

Digital dash project.
I am eliminating the Paktraker because it has never really worked properly. It never read the Amp draw correctly. So I ordered 2 panel meters for the dash. I have made a 9v. power supply and a voltage divider using these guides. 9 volt power supply and the voltage divider.

I got the dash out with no problem. Used my handy dandy Dremil tool to chop the dash and then started mounting the panel meters and power supply. Then there was a problem ... the top panel meter was reading gibberish ... So i connected up my leads to the bottom one and it read correctly ... Either it is faulty or I damaged it playing with it the other day ... I will order anther and hope it gets here before long. This bottom picture is the top gauge on the fritz and the bottom hooked up to a 9v battery.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

It's been a cold winter.

Back into the EV driving season ... hopefully It will become 70 soon and just stay there. I have been starting on some projects. Mainly I have been buying stuff for projects. I want to build Zener diode Battery regulators. Right now I have no pack balancing so I want to make a set and then as a Help to the community I want to monitor the improvements. I am also making a 10 led Battery bar graphs for each battery. My Paktraker has crashed and I am not interested in replacing it.