September 29, 2011, Thursday: Today, I drove another 10.2 miles. Since the conversion and driving daily the EV truck has driven 665 miles without failure. The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home today with a state of charge was ~60% or 150.5 Volts. It is cooler today 63F. Started automated charge with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 7:15 PM, at 28.0 Amps. Charger reduced current to zero at 8:45 PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 30 minutes. Warm peak pack voltage, absorption, was 175.0V.
Base voltages readings near the end of charge (9 Amps at 8:29PM) were:
Reg 1: 14.45V
Reg 2: 14.45V
Reg 3: 14.30V
Reg 4: 14.24V Lowest.Reg 5: 14.50V
Reg 6: 14.28V
Reg 7: 14.49V
Reg 8: 14.49V
Reg 9: 13.34V
Reg10:13.67V Highest
Reg11:14.42V
Reg12:14.48V
August 23, 2012:
August 24, 2012
August 23, 2012: There have been approximately 20 charges and 250 more miles since my