The temp dropped near freezing one night while the car was out. The battery did not have enough to get home. We limped to a friends house that happen to have two electric cars, neither of his chargers worked with our charger. If anyone is familiar with what it takes to get a Brusa NLG513 to work with public chargers we could use the help. We got the regular charge cable and wired it directly to the circuit panel and were able to charge through a metered connection. We charged 20kWh into the pack.
We have now ordered another J1772 plug to place a regular 110V plug on. We have found our split 110V socket system does not work on any GFCI circuit and therefore is far less useful than anticipated.
Priorities change when your cold. The donor GTI is providing parts again. HEATED SEATS. Very little modification has been needed to mount the controls directly into the seat fronts to reduce wiring in the chassis. All we need is 12V and ground up into the seat, since the fuel pump is not used anymore and the wires pass along the seat rail that is the likely power source as it is independently fused and relayed.
The GTI did not use seat belt closed switches but our car did, so with the easy removal and replacement of one bolt the wired seat belts are still in the car.
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| Seat rails cleaned and 12V brought over from the right frame rail along with the bonus of the fuel gauge sender wires. Eventually either the rpm gauge will become the range gauge, or the fuel gauge will read again. |
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| Seat heat dial installed in the lower front of the seat. They light up too. |
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| Not to worry, the wire nest was cleaned up, wrapped up, and clip into position. The rails were also cleaned and lubed. |
Hi Knot. Great work on converting the golf to electric! I was watching your blog and the amount of work you put in the car is amazing. I hope you like how the car turned out so far because i surely do. :) I am a golf fan myself having had one in europe before coming to the US. I am planning to buy a golf gti or r32 and to buy a wrecked e-golf to use as a donor to convert the golf gti/r32 to electric. I want to ask you opinion in regards to my idea. Do you think is doable to transfer the bateries and all the wiring and electronics to the body of a normal golf gti/r32 without to much of a husle? This will be a hoby so im not to concerned about the cost of the project. I would love to hear your thoughts on the idea. Thank you for documenting your golf conversion! It turned out great!
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