{"id":2277,"date":"2011-05-29T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/back-on-the-road-again\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:58:27","slug":"back-on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/back-on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the road again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I got my charger back from Manzanita last thursday and put it in the car Friday night. They weren&#8217;t sure why it busted, but the bridge rectifier had to be replaced, and they did some general tune ups. Unfortunately, it was out of warranty, so I had to pay out of pocket for it. But oh well&#8230;I&#8217;m still saving money on gas!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of my charger&#8217;s bracket to allow me to mount it horizontally:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3353-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3353.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also got my Belktronix DC-DC converter to replace my ailing IOTA DLS-55. Good news from IOTA is that they are taking the issues I brought up to heart, and apparently now have a prototype IOTA DLS-55 that is ruggedized and specialized for EV use! Cool! Evolve Electrics is helping them test it out.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new DC-DC converter (the big hunk of aluminum):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3357.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3357-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3357.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No fans, so the car is now dead silent again. Yes!<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3358-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3358.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some other mods an recent issues. My brakes started leaking and went soft one day. The rear line I installed was rubbing against this member and got a small hole that let it leak out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3274-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3274.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I replaced it and bent it better.<\/p>\n<p>I had moved the radiator underneath and inline with the car, and covered it by some white screen to protect it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3278.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3278-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3278.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t seem to cool the controller quite enough, so I moved it directly into the flow of the air. This involved some new pipes:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3279-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3279.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new bracket:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3285.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3285-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3285.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And mounted:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3291.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3291-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3291.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fans are still on it, but I may not need them anymore. They are still controlled by a temp switch:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3293.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3293-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_3293.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my charger back from Manzanita last thursday and put it in the car Friday night. They weren&#8217;t sure why it busted, but the bridge rectifier had to be replaced, and they did some&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/back-on-the-road-again\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electric-bug"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_3285.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zn47-AJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}