Renault Zoe ICEing a charge spot at the mall !

Renault Zoe ICEing the second charge spot at the mall last friday!

Parked and not plugged in, of course because Zoe can not plug into a regular 200V outlet
Everything about it already explained in this older post






When I came back, there was a DIY ? Kit Plugin Prius II plugged in ...

That reminded me of 2009, four years ago, when I had installed this Enginer PHEV Kit in mine ...



He signaled clearly that it is a pluggin car


A Cycle Analyst can be seen on the dashboard

LiFePO4 Battery Charge Method - Updated with video proofs

I just updated the most popular post of the blog, on LiFePO4 Battery Charging, with the 3 videos showing the cells voltages, always in balance - at the same level -, performed in March, May and July 2013

Take a look at the very bottom of the post here : LiFePO4 Battery Charging Method - Don't Ruin your Expensive Cells !

=> Conclusion: It works: All the cells are still perfectly in balance after 6 months ...

LiFePO4 Cells & Charger for Sale

Here are some left over items from my Enginer Prius PHEV Kit that I have for sale online at the moment (on the famous French website called leboncoin.fr)

3 LiFePO4 Mottcell cells : Direct Link




A brand new LiFePO4 Smart Charger I had for spare : Direct Link

LiFePO4 ESS update - 1000W Produced and DC Breaker swap

I had a problem with this 100A DC breaker, that was not handling 100A, but breaking the battery pack after all my Grid Tie Inverters would come on for few minutes producing 1000W all together

So we have 1000W produced and fed by into the Grid, plus some heat wasted for each GTI, let's say 200W (?) more, all this coming from the battery pack energy: 1200W / 24V = 50A
So this breaker was more like a 50A DC breaker in the end ....

The not really 100A DC breaker

A real (I hope) 100A DC breaker from the Enginer Prius PHEV Kit 

New position (on the floor) for this new breaker

A bar of copper is linking the bottom to top cells groups

With this new real 100A DC breaker, the ESS can hold the produced 1000W for long periods of time without any problem :-)