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[em57]

I am an owner of parts of once was a 2014 Nissan Leaf. I have to say i have never driven a leaf nor currently looking to buy one. I do however have a 1980 Toyota Pickup that has a worn out engine that i am planning on replacing with the em57 motor/inverter/dc dc converter and parts of lithium battery pack (24kw). As I purchased just the modules and not the battery pack i have been forced to go service manuals/ forums to find missing parts and how they are connected. Having purchased just the engine stack and battery modules as do not have benefit of a whole leaf project car from which i can reverse engineer. It has and continues to be a challenge but am learning alot!

 

[MillerLF]

That's one interesting project! Hope you can share your progress

 

[em57]

That's one interesting project! Hope you can share your progress

Thanks - working on getting the bed off the truck now to gauge how much room i have to put battery boxes. Each set of battery modules weighs 300 lbs so will rent a engine hoist to take bed off and manuver the batteries into place. I am hoping to find a set of waterproof truck toolboxes to use to house the battery packs which i plan to line w/ 1/8 inch sheets of plastic. The LBC and the battery junction will both go inside the boxes.

 

[macgeeknz]

Welcome I'm thinking you would need at least the PDU, VCM, BCM and the torque-request pedal if you were planning on doing it with Nissan parts. I know others have used the after-market Thunderstruck ECUs instead though and you may want to investigate that option rather than factory VCM.

I believe this document is on the em61 but you may still find it interesting:

https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/files/Pub52422.pdf

 

[em57]

Thank you-

Welcome I'm thinking you would need at least the PDU, VCM, BCM and the torque-request pedal if you were planning on doing it with Nissan parts. I know others have used the after-market Thunderstruck ECUs instead though and you may want to investigate that option rather than factory VCM.

I believe this document is on the em61 but you may still find it interesting:

https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/files/Pub52422.pdf

Welcome I'm thinking you would need at least the PDU, VCM, BCM and the torque-request pedal if you were planning on doing it with Nissan parts. I know others have used the after-market Thunderstruck ECUs instead though and you may want to investigate that option rather than factory VCM.

I believe this document is on the em61 but you may still find it interesting:

https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/files/Pub52422.pdf

Thank you. I am planning on using aftermarket ECU. After looking at the short list of options (Thunderstruck; Resolve; Rippletech; Zombieverter and Open Inverter) it looks like I am going to go with Resolve. https://www.resolve-ev.com/

I have the pdm that came with the leaf stack motor/inverter/pdm. I got a EV pedal from a VW Touran . Not having a wrecked leaf and living in rural area i am sourcing all of my parts off ebay or https://www.nissanpartsdeal.com/

Any suggestions for alternative part sources would be much appreciated! Used is ok. Currently looking for two battery temp sensors to connect to each pack and run back to the LBC.