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[Erasmo]

The bike is almost done, tomorrow we're going to test how it works





That is one hefty cable they used.

[benswing]

Nice!  Looking forward to hearing about testing.  Where is the CHAdeMO inlet?


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[Erasmo]

On the right side of the top case, you can see the four screws.

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

This looks really good! Is this entirely a custom installation? Any provision for case removal and detachment?

[Erasmo]

You can just remove the case like any regular top case, however because I ride long distances weekly it will stay on.
This build is indeed a bespoke one but now it all has been figured out and after testing it should be much easier to reproduce.

[Erasmo]

Well today it was finally time for the planned tests however the DS decided to produce a contacter error before we could even start

It could be the recently installed power tank, the downpour that got moisture somewhere or the installation but I'm going to wait until tomorrow to resume troubleshooting since I just got home and it is well past bedtime.

[MostlyBonkers]

Better luck for tomorrow Erasmo. I'm very interested to hear how it all goes.

[Erasmo]

This morning I went to power on the bike and heard that sweet clicketyclick again when turning on contact or starting a charge

So I guess it had to do something with the downpour after all...

[Erasmo]

Anyway here's a quick picture of the innards:



After testing it will be tidied up of course.

[buutvrij for life]

Wow, that looks like you have giving it some serious thoughts!

And, is it working completely??

[Erasmo]

Wow, that looks like you have giving it some serious thoughts!

And, is it working completely??

I haven't tested it yet, it is still rainy here and I want to wait until it is dry. Due to work the next possibility will be next Friday at the first. I pulled the logs and we'll see what they will say.

The contactor related error codes are gone, but strangely enough it now displays a code 57 which isn't in the manual?

[Erasmo]

Also another pic from the inside of the box:



I'm trying to make sense of the log of my bike with this tool: http://electricmotorcycleforum.com/boards/index.php?topic=5020.msg34350#msg34350

But I can't make it work somehow. If I can mail my log to somebody that has the script working that would be great.

[MostlyBonkers]

I had some success running it the other day. By all means post your logs on this thread and if I don't get round to running them through I'm sure someone else will.

[Erasmo]

Thanks already. The file is in the attachment

[MostlyBonkers]

The results are a bit disappointing I'm afraid:

Zero MBB log

Serial number      b'2015_mbb_ca1a29_00460'
VIN                b'538SD7Z20FCB04743'
Firmware rev.      40
Board rev.         3
Model              b'DS'

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Perhaps you can try the other option in the Zero app and download the MBB and Battery logs?  The app says it takes about ten minutes and you end up with two 128Kb files.  I've attached the results from when I tried it as log.txt and log1.txt

Here are some instructions explaining what I did to run the utility:

1.  Download and install the Windows Python client 3.5.1 from here: https://www.python.org/downloads/
2.  Create a folder on your C:\ drive called py
3.  In that folder create a file called py.bat with the following contents:

cd C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\
pause
python zero_log_parser.py c:\py\Erasmo.bin -o c:\py\Erasmo.txt
pause

Replace <UserName> with your own Username on your PC.  You should be able to browse to the relevant folder and find a file called python.exe - just so you know you've got the path correct.

4.  Copy your .bin file to c:\py and rename it to something useful.
5.  Edit your py.bat file to change the Erasmo.bin and Erasmo.txt files accordingly.
6.  Don't forget the save your .bat file
7.  Double-click on your py.bat file
8.  You should get a screen like the attached screenshot
9.  Open the txt file in your favourite text editor.  I like Notepad++.

I'm sure there is probably a more elegant way of doing this, but this is what worked for me.  I hope this helps and good luck with that CHAdeMO kit! :-)