errantember

I got most of the Major Wiring done on Rupert today. I added the extra terminals to allow for checking and charging each battery separately, completed the Satan's Tetris of getting all the new not-quite-exactly-the-same-as-the-old-batteries cells into place, and discovered the longest cable was mysteriously about 6" short. I suspect the actual arrangement of the cables inside the machine was probably slightly different than the diagram.

trippedbreaker is looking into whether he can make me a new one from the supplies people who work on electric vehicles professionally just have lying around. If not, I'll build my own tomorrow. In the meantime, I completed the circuit with jumper cables, and the correct total pack voltage of 12V x 5 batteries = 60+V is showing on the meter!

There's still substantial assembly and wiring left, but I can probably complete it in one day once I have some free time. Likely I'll have a functioning scooter by this weekend.