Recent content by ctromley

Bumping this post and embarrassed to admit I didn't check out the market thoroughly. I'm also competing with used Nissan Leafs, which go for considerably less. Price dropped accordingly.

My 2012 is still for sale, but I've been driving it to prove out my charrger repair (dozens of charges and doing fine), and now it's due for an inspection. The front tires are near their end. Tire availability has always been a crapshoot on this car, and as I look now there are a very few...

It's time to move on from my beloved i-MiEV. (We now have an Ioniq 6 in the garage for electric powered road trips.) Condition is very good with 43,900 miles on the clock. Exterior is white pearl with blue trim. Body is straight and ding-free and has the expected random rock chips here and...

Let me make it abundantly clear from the outset that I am about as far from an expert on these things as anyone should be while still attempting such a repair. I am only half joking when I say I know only enough about electronics to be dangerous. I literally cook-booked my way through this...

The resistor power rating is 1 W. Seems low, but as I recall (I'd find it and add a link but I'm on my phone at the moment), @Coulomb found in the specs that they could handle more than enough Joules of energy. (Or something similar, don't quote me.) So far I've started a charge twice. (One...

Follow-up: My car successfully completed its first post-repair charge, and everything seems eerily normal. I wanted to eliminate the 12V battery as a contributing cause, so I took it to the local AutoZone to have it load tested. It checked out perfectly fine. Mind you, this was done with a...

What I'm choosing to see as cautiously optimistic good news is the fact that my car is charging. It's been a long, anxiety-producing and frequently interrupted journey, which isn't quite over yet, but it looks like I'm on the home stretch. I re-assembled everything but didn't seal it up yet...

My repair is just about done (in part due to some offline help from Kiev - thanks!). Photos will follow. Being an ME with electronics packaging experience, I have an assembly suggestion that may help other electrical noobs. And I have a question that only an electrical dolt like me would ask...

As it happens, I'm having a devil of a time finding proper snubber caps. Anything higher than 3 kV rating is pretty darn rare. Does anyone have a link to a candidate that I've apparently missed? (I think my noob status is keeping me from the good stuff the gurus have access to.) If not...

So it's been over a month now since I pulled the safety plug and disconnected the 12 V battery and started in on fixing my charrger. (Too many projects at once.) And I now remember this: http://mmc-manuals.ru/manuals/i-miev/online/Service_Manual/2012/54/html/M154100230004500ENG.HTM There's a...

Oh thank you so much! I thought I was going to have go back to school to figure out what to put in there. Mind you, your find is not the original part. (The original, also from Mitsubishi's electronics division, is bigger.) But the "362M" on your Digikey part matches part of the number on...

Follow-up: I haven't spent a lot of time searching yet, but it looks like I'm going nowhere fast. The i-MiEV gas discharge tube is a glass tube, roughly Ø5.5 x 9.5 mm, with axial leads and 15 mm lead spacing. Searching on the numbers found on the device gets me nothing. Everything in that...

Interesting. Thanks for that. Makes sense, this thing goes between AC in and chassis ground. Looks like I have more parts searching to do.

Proving yet again that sometimes even a blind squirrel can find a nut. Speaking of which, I just got my desolder station, which makes a bid deal about handling lead-free solder well. Which got this noob wondering, should I be using lead free solder? I've read that desoldering sometimes goes...

Hmmm. I may be veering into hillbilly country here (and crowding the little real estate there is to deal with), but how about functionally replacing the P10K resistor with your pair of paralleled 10 Ω Ohmite resistors in series with a parallel pair of the AuPo 16 A thermal fuses I found? If...