Thursday, November 3, 2011

charger wiring

I did a little charger wiring clean up today. Nothing new functionally, just a little cleaner and easier to use. In the picture you can see the power inlet cord coming through the side from the gas tank door (upper left of the picture), one leg goes through the solid state relay controlled by the MiniBMS, then it goes into a junction box with a dual pole switch leading to an outlet. This is so I can plug the extension cord into the car without the charger being 'live' yet so I don't get arcing at the extension cord. The charger plugs into the outlet. From the charger, I then mounted the Anderson connector to a small project box that has a simple 20a rated switch with one leg of the charger output going through it. This is so I can power on the charger with the output disconnected, then just flip the switch instead of having to plug in the Anderson every time.

So, the process goes like this.
1) make sure both switches are off.
2) plug in cord to car.
3) flip switch on junction box to power charger.
4) flip switch on small box to connect output to battery pack.
From 2011-11-03 plug

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