Recent content by redcane

Yes, I am grateful for it. It goes a long way to making up for the unhelpful attitude from the organisation when the car developed problems. I think it's just one of those things - I now know that the while the car was off the road several months while I was trying to repair it, there was a...

So after being pretty dirty that the charger I got as a recall replacement only lasted 18 months in service, I got a phone call yesterday from the local dealer. They've done a clean out of their storage and discovered my original 2010 charger unit! They were going to throw it out, so now I have...

Hola Barbagris, I think the first place to check is the fuse for the on board charger, located in the motor inverter. This is under the cargo space in the back. This can contain hazardous voltages, but can be checked with a multimeter. Most likely the "snubber" capacitors in the charger are...

Firstly I'd like to clarify that the pre-charge resistor in my imiev needed replacing, but it's absolutely not to do with the original OBC fault. It was a mistake on our part in reassembling the charger. I think that in the absence of essentially a short on the high voltage circuit that...

Our imiev is now fully charged. In the end, without the additional work we created for ourselves, we only actually needed to replace the snubber capacitors and fuse in the MCU.

I took the pack out of my imiev (with help from friends). We found ours coated in a grey rubber. I can't measure ours - it was the faulty part we removed the pack to replace.It's labelled 240KAG 40W "JRH", but 240kΩ on 360V is nowhere near 40W. The part was open circuit so we couldn't...

That message from the icarsoft means it is not connected properly. I see a similar message if I don't have the car on.

Our vacuum pump is still operating even though the car does not go ready, and there is no voltage at the motor control unit.

Yes, we get pack voltage on the chademo port when forcing the QC contactors to close. Given you have no voltage on chademo port, and a failure to go ready, the only shared circuitry is in the battery pack. There is the main 280A high voltage fuse, and the service plug. Then there are all the...

My understanding is these are only powered through the main (and pre charge) contactors, so they are isolated when the car is not in "ready"?

I've noticed our fuel meter jumping around when we disconnect the 12V. It's obviously affecting the calibration calculation rather than the actual state of charge. Whilst this is technically possible, I don't think they have access to the source code, nor would they consider it a good idea to...

Bonjour Christopher, I know if at least one case where clearing the error codes was not required, assuming the only error was from the charger. From what I've seen it seems some error codes are "self-clearing", but others aren't. If you double check everything, and can't find any fault...

Sounds promising Mike. I'm again pondering which way the causal relation goes - did the wiring problem cause a fault elsewhere? Or is it a bit of a coincidence.

Does anyone know the specs for the pre-charge resistor in the imiev battery pack? In the process of diagnosing a failure to start (go into "ready") of our imiev, we believe we have isolated the issue to the pre-charge contactor and resistor. We are able to trigger the negative, main positive...

Fuel gauge is still displaying 4 bars. I think it is based on the BMS reading from the cell monitoring units, rather then from reading the overall pack voltage. It's definitely not taking a reading from outside the contractors. I should have noted what the fuel gauge did with the service plug...