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Zero Motorcycles Forum | 2013+ / Re: FXE smarter charger
« on: October 04, 2023, 02:58:53 AM »
Cool little project! You might check out the sonoff S31s, they are just ran with an esp8266 and can be easily flashed with esphome and integrated into home assistant, and give voltage and current readings. Then you can control it however you want through home assistant.
I built a little esp8266 that reads the battery soc and temp info from that obd2 port via a cheap can controller, I cant remember if I tried pulling data from it while the bike was off or not but I might try it out again. Theres no power on that obd2 port either, so it would be harder to put a permanent microcontroller on the bike to send info back to anything.
Charging while the battery is warm isnt really a big deal, the bike will terminate the charge if it gets too hot. Storing at proper SOC though makes much more sense and that would help with timed charging.
I built a little esp8266 that reads the battery soc and temp info from that obd2 port via a cheap can controller, I cant remember if I tried pulling data from it while the bike was off or not but I might try it out again. Theres no power on that obd2 port either, so it would be harder to put a permanent microcontroller on the bike to send info back to anything.
Charging while the battery is warm isnt really a big deal, the bike will terminate the charge if it gets too hot. Storing at proper SOC though makes much more sense and that would help with timed charging.