Sunday, February 15, 2009

Sunday Funday

I'm getting pretty good at replacing the 'on' switch. Hopefully third time's a charm. I did break one of the plastic catches that holds the decorative cover on the steering column. You'll note many 'S' symbols stamped on the parts. Yup, those are Suzuki bits. Seems the underlying manufacturer is somehow involved with Suzuki. For what it's worth, all the 'S' parts (brakes, wheels, steering - etc.) seem to work really well.
You can see switch #3 just below/in-front of the steering wheel. Also the 'Norm' enhanced battery health display just above the steering column.



It was considerably warmer today. The batteries like that. 43deg.F is way better than 34deg.F and better for working on cars too. The newest switch has survived several on/off cycles and should survive until the new heavy duty one comes in from GPEV.
We went out on a couple errand/shopping trips totaling 20km or so. Nothing broke! The battery tracking system has a fairly bad case of the glitches. Keeps resetting the State-Of-Charge%. Sean says that's fairly common due to EMI on the wires in this obviously noisy high current environment. Wouldn't *you* design the product with that in mind? I hope I would...
I just noticed that the turn signals were not swapped out with the LED parts. Hmmm, thought that was part of the 'kit' will have to check.

It actually drives just fine the couple times it was out. Since the steering wheel completely blocks the view of the turn signal indicators and the speedometer area that's actually useful I may get pulled over for driving miles with my turn signal flashing, but probably not for speeding ;-)