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Old 01-13-2019, 01:26 PM   #3341 (permalink)
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Many Thanks thingstodo,

I so hope this controller works for me, Ive had a run of back luck with controllers, have gone through two can bus controllers and Pauls drop in leaf board controller nothing worked, Paul has told me that there must a fault on the leaf main circuit board.

Ironically the board that I'm building was the first board I bought from Paul.

What version board to you have ? I have Ver 0.4

What setup are you running any pictures ?

I know you build your system a while ago.

I don't understand how to connect J43 & J44 "high voltage DC monitoring", do I need to wire resistors in series here ? eventually I will be using a Leaf pack 360V

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Old 01-14-2019, 01:25 PM   #3342 (permalink)
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What version board to you have ? I have Ver 0.4
Where do I look for the version on the board? I'm running one of the very early versions.

I bought a couple of control boards to do 'brain transplants' into older industrial controllers as well ... but they are just the control boards and have not been installed as yet. Too many projects! Or .. maybe not enough spare time?

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I killed the controller .. or at least the IGBTs .. by connecting the battery up backwards and Paul believes that the built-in diodes on the IGBTs just melted. I have not gotten back to the project ... I have a SEVCON controller mostly working in my Polaris Ranger EV. But it needs other TLC ... and I'm slow
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I don't understand how to connect J43 & J44 "high voltage DC monitoring", do I need to wire resistors in series here ? eventually I will be using a Leaf pack 360V
I don't have J43 and J4, that I can see. The only controller that I have dealt with that monitors the high voltage pack is the Netgain Industrial controller. It has one connection on the pack side (+) and one connection on the negative side of the pre-charge resistor so that it knows when it is safe to close the main contactor. That way, you don't really have to configure the controller for a particular voltage ... it's just looking for the voltage across the resistor to be low and not changing fast before it closes the main contactor and opens the pre-charge contactor.
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Would anyone have the designspark files for V0.4? Thanks.
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Would anyone have the designspark files for V0.4? Thanks.
Paul sent me a zip file (kind of like 'off site backups') a while ago. I honestly have not even opened it to see what is inside.

I'll check tonight.
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Sorry man - forgot! I'll send myself a text to look tonight
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So I have been getting -8VDC at all the gates constantly? I read in what Paul had sent me that they should fluctuate from -8VDC to 15VDC. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Would anyone have the designspark files for V0.4? Thanks.
The latest files that I have (no version number listed) are from Feb 2017. .sch and .pcb files. These are for the AC Controller controller board. I don't have software to open them ... PM me and I can email them to you. zip files is only 378K
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Many Thanks thingstodo,

I so hope this controller works for me, Ive had a run of back luck with controllers, have gone through two can bus controllers and Pauls drop in leaf board controller nothing worked, Paul has told me that there must a fault on the leaf main circuit board.

Ironically the board that I'm building was the first board I bought from Paul.

What version board to you have ? I have Ver 0.4

What setup are you running any pictures ?

I know you build your system a while ago.

I don't understand how to connect J43 & J44 "high voltage DC monitoring", do I need to wire resistors in series here ? eventually I will be using a Leaf pack 360V
I found a version on the AC board - 1.0 ... but it is likely within the first 5 he built.

I have a couple of controller boards that I got from Paul to do the brain transplant thing on industrial AC drive. They are version 0.3
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So I have been getting -8VDC at all the gates constantly? I read in what Paul had sent me that they should fluctuate from -8VDC to 15VDC. Is anyone else having this issue?
Sorry - I don't have one with power on it. So I can't check.
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So I have been getting -8VDC at all the gates constantly? I read in what Paul had sent me that they should fluctuate from -8VDC to 15VDC. Is anyone else having this issue?
When they are running, that fluctuation is normal. Yours appear to be commanded "OFF" @-8vdc

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