SoCal Branch Year 3 LEAF-Gatherings - See Year 4

[Boomer23]

Only if you want Gary to dote over him, give him gifts and encourage him towards an engineering career. :lol:

Quick question- Is it cool to bring my 12 year old son or is this an adult type of get together?

Thanks!

Right, and you'll both be very welcome!

 

[TonyWilliams]

Maybe I'll bring one or both of my kids (10 & 12), since it looks too rainy for Saturday baseball; 100 miles to go!

 

[Geraldk]

Cool I will ask if he wants to come along. He does want to be an engineer.

 

[garygid]

A dozen good folks, time in the parking lot viewing our cell-pair
voltages and battery temperatures, and checking out some of
our 12v Batteries, and Mongolian Stir Fry after 12 noon...
all combined to extend our Gathering to almost 1 PM.

I hope to have the ability to display the Min, Ave, and Max
cell-pair voltages, and the Pack Temperatures, added to
the GID-Meter within a few months. It should take only
one solder-glob "jumper" on the AVR-CAN board to allow
writing the Requests to the EV-CAN bus, and new firmware.

After taxes, I also need to update CAN-Do to show the cell-pair
voltages and Pack temperatures, get the GID-Meter logging
all the messages, get a CANary built, and continue with my
Black Box project.

But, thanks to a lot for great work by others, we have made
great progress in being able to instrument our LEAFs.

Thank you all for Gathering.

 

[tbleakne]

I greatly enjoyed the meeting. The good fellowship helped me get great sleep last night.

I made it home without in-route charging, arriving just below LBW with 15% Gids. This may be one of my last Cerritos trips before capacity loss forces me to resort to extra charging on the way home. Here are details that might possibly help others plan similar trips between OC and Claremont along I605.

My baseline for level travel on freeways is 1 mile per 1% Gid. I achieve this driving 54-62 mph, mostly below 58, without climate control, 40 lbs tire pressure, no wind. As I drive, I simply subtract miles-to-go M from current Gid% G to see my uncorrected target arrival Gid% Tug.
Tug = G - M.
As I go downhill (from Claremont), Tug slowly rises, and I as I go uphill on way home Tug falls.
The correction for altitude reverses sign, which is obviously very important for accurate planning. Note that this route features gradual rise and fall, so there is very little loss due to the inefficiencies of regeneration.
I keep a record of net corrections relative to Tug to apply for future trips along the same route. These corrections are independent of capacity loss and they provide guidance for similar routes.

To HTB Cerritos:
37 miles each way. 1.2 Kft net altitude drop.

Start home "100" 87%G
Arrive HTB Cerritos 60%G
Tug = 87-37 = 50%G. Correction for "To" leg is +10%G. Corrected target is 10% higher than uncorrected.

Return "From" leg.
Leave HTB 59%G
Tug = 59-37 = 22%
Actual %G at arrival home = 15%G
Correction for "From" leg is -7%

Note total for round trip of 74 miles is 87-15 = 72%G, so I did 2% better than my nominal 1% per mile, which is very good.
On a previous trip on this route, I recorded +6% "To" correction, -5% "From" correction.

My backup for extra charge is SCE Customer Technology Center, .2 mi off of Irwindale Ave just E. of I605-I210 interchange. This location is 14%G from my home, and with 8 Chargepoint stations, open 24/7, it is available with very high confidence.

 

[garygid]

Tom really milks the miles out of his LEAF.

My trip to Cerritos is 35 miles each way, and I charged to "100%"
(shy 93% GIDs) the night before the trip. I got home with only
11% GIDs, just above VLBW. I used the cruise control set at an
indicated 61 mph (probably about 59.5 real mph), but I think my
tire pressure is down below the 40 psi that I would normally use.

Cerritos is at 34 feet elevation, and I am at about 300 feet higher.

 

[garygid]

Next Gathering on Saturday, 23 March, at the Hometown Buffet
on 17th street in Santa Ana, just 2 blocks East of I-5.

I hope to have a working CANary by then.
If not, I should have it by April's first meeting.

 

[UrsusMajor]

Hope to make the meeting on 3/23/13 in Santa Ana. It's about a mile from my house.

Just got my LEAF on 3/8 at Tustin Nissan.

Silver 2013 LEAF SV

Still working out the details on getting L2 charger installed at home. Need to find a good guy to run a 240v 40A to my detached garage in French Park.

 

[Boomer23]

Hope to make the meeting on 3/23/13 in Santa Ana. It's about a mile from my house.

Just got my LEAF on 3/8 at Tustin Nissan.

Silver 2013 LEAF SV

Still working out the details on getting L2 charger installed at home. Need to find a good guy to run a 240v 40A to my detached garage in French Park.

Congrats and welcome. I can't make that meeting, but Gary and the other folks will welcome you.

I used an electrician named Jason Wakefield to install my new 200 Amp service panel. If you're getting estimates to run your lines, I recommend you give him a call. His business is called Jason Wakefield Electric. If you can't find him with a Google search, post back on this thread and I'll try to dig out his number.

 

[garygid]

Save this coming Saturday morning to treat yourself to breakfast,
joining us for another LEAF Gathering at the Hometown Buffet
located on 17th street in Santa Ana, just 2 blocks East of I5.

Friends, wives, significant others, kids, and all kind souls
are welcome. We usually discuss many different subjects,
mostly at the whim and interest of those attending.

I plan to be there about 8 AM, and I usually stay until at least
11 AM. This Saturday I might stay until noon in order to try
a plate of their Mongolian Stir Fry that is available after they
close up their popular Omelet Bar.

 

[garygid]

Who is intending to show up?
Robert and I...

 

[91040]

Save two seats for me but will only be there for the first hour.

 

[Boomer23]

Save two seats for me but will only be there for the first hour.

Two seats? You don't usually eat that much.

I may be able to make it after all, but not as early as usual. Hopefully I'll get there before Mr. and Mrs. 91040 have to leave. I'd like to say hi and catch up.

 

[JeremyW]

Should be able to make it.

 

[garygid]

Notice:
Tentative workshop at Dori's workplace on Saturday
March 30th, details to follow, depending on interest.

I hope to be available, but I might grab a quick lunch
at HTB in Cerritos or Santa Ana from about 11:30 to 12:30...
or other times if there is sufficient interest.

 

[TonyWilliams]

Notice:
Tentative workshop at Dori's workplace on Saturday
March 30th, details to follow, depending on interest.

I hope to be available, but I might grab a quick lunch
at HTB in Cerritos or Santa Ana from about 11:30 to 12:30...
or other times if there is sufficient interest.

I'd love to be there since I haven't even looked at my project, but I'll be out of town through mid April.

 

[Boomer23]

Suggestion: Some of us drive down to Connell Nissan in Costa Mesa after the meeting to see the first Nissan QC installation, and possibly get a QC. If we have some interested, I'll call ahead to Connell to make sure it's operating. But even if it's not, we can scope it out, look at location, parking, etc.

 

[JeremyW]

Would love to see the qc! I think I'll need a charge at Cerritos Nissan before hand or a quick charge from Connell.

Thirty six quick charges and counting on my leaf, btw!

 

[garygid]

24 hours and 33 minutes to go... until our next Gathering.

 

[garygid]

It was a small Gathering, about 8 people, but very enjoyable.

What is the final decision on the workshop this coming Saturday?

Dori, what time?

Who is coming?

I will bring my CANary project, and hope to connect to
a LEAF before the end of the day.
Although not packaged yet, it had a good Playbsck (demo) mode.

I will probably go to either the Santa Ana or Cerritos HTB
before the workshop, probably 11 to 12:15 or some such.
Anybody want to join me?