Phantom FTS Electric Supercharger Owners Thread

[keen as]

Originally Posted by stevo585

The system should be pulling around 160 amps. 4000W/24V = AMPS

I am not talking about the dump cables (I have edited previous post)

[Sojhinn]

Originally Posted by keen as

I am not talking about the dump cables

Whoa... The power cables melted?

[keen as]

Originally Posted by Sojhinn

Whoa... The power cables melted?

No, the melted component was the CONNECTOR I used for the 12V power cable. The rest is fine.

[zc06_kisstherain]

Originally Posted by super josh

The elm327 Bluetooth dongle that we use with the torque app to connect to the OBD2 port has a facility to measure and report the battery voltage measured at the adapter (as well as the one measured at the ecu), I just re-purposed it to measure the ESC voltage by connecting the input to the ESC voltmeter to the dongle and reconfiguring the circuit slightly as it wasn't originally designed to measure 30 volts.

Then I created a custom PID in the torque app with an appropriate scalar and voila one ESC display on your phone or tablet.

I use the appradio unchained reloaded to get the torque app displayed on my Pioneer headunit.

What we need now is for Shiv and his team to provide this facility using the PROceed ecu and to output the data with a custom PID onto the car's canbus, then we could get the same functionality that I have shown without having to modify the bluetooth dongle.

If you need any specific details, then just ask


Josh

I have no idea what you're saying
but i like it lol

[super josh]

Originally Posted by Sojhinn

If I remember the aux charger that rob recommended was around 80 bucks and was an easy install.

This sounds interesting, do you have any more details?


Josh

[Sojhinn]

Originally Posted by super josh

This sounds interesting, do you have any more details?





Josh

It's in a post in the original thread let me try to find it.

[Sojhinn]

Originally Posted by super josh

This sounds interesting, do you have any more details?





Josh

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...postcount=9100

[super josh]

I don't appear to be able to 'thank' your post, so 'thanks' anyway


Josh

[continuecrushing]

Originally Posted by super josh

I don't appear to be able to 'thank' your post, so 'thanks' anyway


Josh

not until you've got 10 posts!

Originally Posted by keen as

No, the melted component was the CONNECTOR I used for the 12V power cable. The rest is fine.

That stinks, but glad you caught it before it caused a fire.
I had to extend the 12v+ lead about 20" and used a hard crimp connector and a 10 gauge wire. Should be ok.

Originally Posted by Sojhinn

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...postcount=9100

What's the purpose of the extra charger when the dump pack is getting charged by the charging circuit in the controller all the time?

[Sojhinn]

Originally Posted by Algreen

What's the purpose of the extra charger when the dump pack is getting charged by the charging circuit in the controller all the time?

The extra charger helps charge the batteries faster. It also has the added benefit of not overworking the controller and causing it to enter one of its three levels of heat protection.

I have an aux charger and I think it's awesome. Not needed at all but awesome.

So you run this charger from your cigarette lighter (or hard wired) directly to your dump pack as an auxiliary charger, aiding the controller's charging circuit even though the source (the cars 12v system) is the same? And this reduces heat on the controller and charges the batteries faster between boost? Genius!

[super josh]

Originally Posted by Sojhinn

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...postcount=9100

Thanks for the details Sojhinn Just to follow on from Algreen's post, presumably this aux charger runs in parallel to the existing charger to take some of the strain off it and, as you say, stop it going into one of its heat protection modes?

You mention that you are successfully running an aux charger, is it this model or something else?


Thanks again for more insight,

Josh