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Understanding the LED boards

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

White board The most simple design. This board consists of 5 LED's with series limiting resistor...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Troubleshooting broken companion boards

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

Three boards 76, failed in Stale's battery in the field - does not run LEDs, SOC output is wro...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Test procedure for early prototypes

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

After assembly, each board needs to be tested and approved before it may be used in a battery. Th...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Initial planning for companion boards

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

One tiny board of 4 cm times 2 cm with 3 terminals: Battery positive Battery negative SOC ou...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Installing the v6 board

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

Three known problems The ZXTR2012Z voltage regulator cannot handle the battery voltage suddenl...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Flat 36V batteries with green 'sandwich' BMS

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

These BMSs have the LEDs and the button built in, not on a separate board - making our life more ...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Interface pinouts

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

Flat with white BMS board Orange wire No GND path to the connector, then no NTC taken to the ...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Finding the PCB connectors

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

For the very final version of the BH board, we need to integrate all connectors that make it comp...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

DC/DC converter and LDO evaluation

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

The single most expensive components in our boards are the RECOM DC/DC converters. 55 kr/pcs. Ou...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Brose BH hack

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

Mapping the pins Compared to black: only noise everywhere Compared to brown: Orange: 9.72V...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Troubleshooting: Output oscillations

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

The SOC output had a lot of noise on it, causing the displayed percentage on the display to move ...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Basic idea: SoC indication hack

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

The BMS makes a 0-10V signal, that is interpreted by the display as state-of-charge in a linear w...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Avoiding hangups

BH Emotion batteries Companion board development

Problem description We see that the smart SOC boards can 'hang up' either by themselves, or if t...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

VW e-Golf modules, 2nd generation, 111 Ah

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Small module Pinout: B1 = pin 7 B2 = pin 3 Temp1 = pin 6 Temp 2 = pin 1 There is no groun...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Cutting the main boards

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The main boards were made of 18mm thick pine boards cut on a CNC mill at Fellesverkstedet. Painte...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

BMS settings

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The BMS is a Daly Smart BMS with Bluetooth, Li-ion 12S 80A. One must connect to the BMS via th...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Plugs

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The original chargers used the Lester 21486 connector. This connector has three pins, and is real...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Prototype building

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Cleaning Building The 2nd generation VW modules The smart modules do not show the ...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton

Bill of materials

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Quantity Price per unit w/o MVA VW e-Golf big module 3 20...

Updated 1 year ago by Greg Marton