Thanks mate, I just had a look through the thread and found the bit you're talking about.Have you seen the 6 wheel disco thread. Its old and he has stopped updating, pity really.
He mention some inspection issues in his thread about HV cabling. Might be worth a search and read.
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Yes mate, the extra battery will go but I don't think it will effect the range as much as I feared. When I tested the Zafira PS pump it was drawing minimum 25A and over 40A at 12V which was crazy. This one spooled down quickly to around 5A and didn't go much above 10A yet still gave great assistance. It also seems to be a LOT quieter than the Zafira pump was but I still think the Zafira pump was faulty so it's hard to be sure. It is certainly no louder than the Alty Motor solution and may even be quieter.That is a big change Ali, but it does do away with a separate battery for the PS.
Is it possible to co control it via PWM? It would be so useful to use the PWM speed signal from the ABS module to alter PS assistance.
No mate. Simply hooked up two high current wires to the battery and the low current signal wire to the ignitionMuch better solution. Are you using something on the steering shaft or rack to trigger the pump rate ?
lol, a lot simpler than Ali's conversion - but not quite the same effect.Had to post this simple EV conversion. Got the gold paint on order.
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Had to post this simple EV conversion. Got the gold paint on order.
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I did it all wrong!!!lol, a lot simpler than Ali's conversion - but not quite the same effect.
The foam will probably stay like that till the next MOT is loomingI managed a few more small jobs today and sorted out a couple of issues.
The brake light came on a week or so ago and wouldn't go out so after spending ages looking for the fault at the hand brake it finally dawned on me to check the brake fluid reservoir and sure enough I'd managed to damage the connector so a bit of pushing and all is well. It might come back but for now is fixed.
I also had an issue with the brake boost recently where it died on me a mile or so from home. I drove home slowly but the weird thing is when I turned the car off and on it worked again. I think the issue was a poor connection at the power plug going into the Arduino that controls it so I soldered wires directly to the Arduino so it can't be an issue again.
I also had a go at securing the power steering pump but rather than fabricating a fancy metal bracket I went with this.
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This is foam packaging from a big heavy file server box so is pretty high quality. I don't think the pump will get hot enough to melt it and it's pretty well jammed in so shouldn't move. Some day I might replace the foam with a bracket but for now it will do.
Next I pulled back the 4mm sq 3 core flex I'd been using for the altymotor and connected up a 12V heater to try and give a little heat.
This is the one I bought.
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I only have one side connected so far to see how well it works so will report back after testing.
New video.
Thanks mate, I just had a look at your thread and it sounds very exciting.Huge congrats on the MOT pass … managed to get the same result for ours just before Xmas, now waiting on the change in registration. Great to see you up and running!