So, I've had a LeafCAN for a few days (thanks, Glenn) and have a few of observations...
I am going to see about adding a dimmer circuit for night since it is pretty bright... A photo transistor and a couple resistors should do it.
I have noted a couple of oddities in the displayed data. I have version 1.3 of the firmware. The percent Gids seems to be about right at higher Gids (an 80% charge with 202 Gids shows 79% Gids which seems correct - though with my battery loss this percentage may be high as well) but as the Gids drop, the Gid percentage seems to be increasingly higher than it should be. 60 Gids, for example, shows about 36% which is well above what the GID percentage should be for that charge level...
Another oddity - though perhaps just I don't comletely understand how it is supposed to work - is the extended fuel bars. At 100% charge it only shows about 10.2 bars rather than closer to 12 or 13... As the SOC drops, it becomes closer and closer to tracking the actual dash fuel bars and is dead on at the point the last bar goes away. Perhaps my battery is more degraded than I thought...
The last oddity - and I suspect this is related to the inherent inaccuracies in the Hall Effect sensor for the battery pack - is that the value shown for the pack Kw in/out always appears to be slightly negative at rest. In other words, when the car is on, but not moving, it shows a slight charge rather than a slight discharge... Anywhere from 0 to minus about 300 watts. The value is somewhat noisy and jumps around a lot but is almost always negative.
Has anyone else observed these phenomenon?