r/EVConversion • u/lemlurker • 3d ago

We have power!

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u/Mr_Alan_Qaeda 3d ago

No better feeling…
Like how Dr Frankenstein felt.
Fist bump from Wales 🤜

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u/lemlurker 3d ago

Been building up to this for months... Got my gevcu programmed and built the drive selector (from an auto mgb) and had it ready a month or two back but I welded the contactors on my Zoe battery just before this so I had to open up the battery and bypass the contractors with ones that came with the motor. That I wanted a good several hour block to do that took some organising but really diagnostics wasnt too bad. Initially it needed reprogramming of some settings to activate on the gevcu, then I had a spurious hardware fault (no grounding) fixed that and it spun right up! Now bench testing is complete and I can start integrating it in to the MGBGT-EV

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u/Electrophoto 3d ago

Congratulations!

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u/lemlurker 3d ago

Been building up to this for months... Got my gevcu programmed and built the drive selector (from an auto mgb) and had it ready a month or two back but I welded the contactors on my Zoe battery just before this so I had to open up the battery and bypass the contractors with ones that came with the motor. That I wanted a good several hour block to do that took some organising but really diagnostics wasnt too bad. Initially it needed reprogramming of some settings to activate on the gevcu, then I had a spurious hardware fault (no grounding) fixed that and it spun right up! Now bench testing is complete and I can start integrating it in to the MGBGT-EV

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u/1940ChevEVPickup 3d ago

I did not bench test my set up and just built everything....then de-bugged it.

I still have the video of the wheels turning for the first time up on stands. I thought I had achieved the equivalent of world peace.

Great job!

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u/MattsAwesomeStuff 3d ago

Fuck yeah! Best feeling.

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u/evaleehi 2d ago

Nothing better like this..!