Vectrix Collaborative Handbook
A Collaborative Handbook to collect, discuss and organize repair and service information for the Vectrix VX1.
This is a work in progress, potentially full of errors and wrong advice of all kinds!
Use it at your own risk!
Never attempt any repairs or modifications if you are not competent and qualified to do so.
Get someone who is suitably qualified to check the information first, and then let them do the required work for you instead!
Everyone is welcome to contribute, and that means that the content of the Collaborative Handbook is not quality controlled!
Not sure if this will be useful for anything, but here are some logged CANBUS data:
http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/6796#comment-39164
Lots of HELP needed to decipher the CANBus.....
http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/6916
Hi Mik, could yo insert this as "Linklist battery-manufacturers" List of battery-manufacturers
greetings Mike
On the CANBUS Logging page I have added a link to the website of an Australian vendor where the PCAN USB adapter can be bought:
http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/6916
More CANBUS logging results posted there: http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/6916#comment-39956
HID light addition: http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/7043
Description of CANBUS ID00FEF105 : Speed, Voltage, current draw: http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/6916#comment-40025
A re-write of the ABCool device for the Handbook:
http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/7054
Some insights from a "secret source":
http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/7216
Several pages rearranged into a new chapter: Vectrix VX-1 Lights - Headlights - Indicators - Taillight to enable finding stuff without developing an ulcer...: http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/7217
Several smaller updates and cross-links added.
Give thanx to the secret source. It's these tech information that I really like to read and is very usefull. And I agree with him, when he says:
Welcome to the world of cutting edge electronics, it wont be long before all vehicles will be built like this, its just a case that the Vectrix is leading the way at this point in time. To all the Vectrix owners, you are leading the way to a brand new world, some will fight it most will embrace it, but the change is here to stay.
There is a little truth to using a high wattage headlite contributing to taillite failure. The tail/brake light consists of a string of LEDs driven by a step up DC/DC. By using a high wattage headlite the 12V will sag considerably when switched on or switched from hi to lo, lo to hi. This causes the DC/DC at the tail to try and draw more current, more than that transistor in question can handle...and poof. Even with the stock headlamp some of you may have experienced this 12V sagging affect when you turn on the scoot then immediately enable and accelerate before the headlite comes on. You may feel a little jerk in the scooter as the headlite comes on, drags down the 12V and causes a system reset.
There is a little truth to using a high wattage headlite contributing to taillite failure. The tail/brake light consists of a string of LEDs driven by a step up DC/DC. By using a high wattage headlite the 12V will sag considerably when switched on or switched from hi to lo, lo to hi. This causes the DC/DC at the tail to try and draw more current, more than that transistor in question can handle...and poof. Even with the stock headlamp some of you may have experienced this 12V sagging affect when you turn on the scoot then immediately enable and accelerate before the headlite comes on. You may feel a little jerk in the scooter as the headlite comes on, drags down the 12V and causes a system reset.
Thank you for the explanation!
I'll try to transplant the discussion to the more appropriate place in the Handbook, so that it will be easier to find: http://visforvoltage.org/book/ev-collaborative-hand-books/7216#comment-41257
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I think I found a way of making the handbook easier to find!
It is now located in the drop down menu under Handbooks >> Electric Scooters >> Over 1500W.
But it also appears in the "Recent Vectrix" list.
So now it will be easier to alert Vectrix readers of an update to the handbook by just "bumping" this thread!
I hope it works....
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