The stock charger on my EVT 168 crashed, and I bought a Soneil 48v charger, Model: 4808SRF, thinking I could easily splice the plug from the (Chroma) stock charger to the Soneil. As discussed on this forum, the Chroma plug has six wires, (2 ground, each of the rest "corresponds" to a battery in the scooter. The Soneil plug has only two wires, and I don't know what these wires do.
The question then is how do I attach the Chroma plug to the Sonneil charger, and how do I know this will work?
Any ideas?
Guessing... my 2002 model EVT 4000 doesn't have such a plug. This sounds like a bank charging setup. Assuming that's the case you can use a volt meter to map out which pin in the plug corresponds to what voltage.
Stick one probe into the pin(s) you determined to be ground, then one by one try the other wires. You should find one with 12v, another with 24v, another with 36v and another with 48v. Since you have a 48v charger then you would wire that charger across the ground pins and the 48v pin. But you'd have an option to set up a bank charging setup.
- David Herron, The Long Tail Pipe, davidherron.com, 7gen.com, What is Reiki
I found the following conversation useful and I think I'm close to finding a solution. This was found in thread : Re: EVT 168 - Is it possible to de-restrict?
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I think I have identified the ground wire in the Soneil charger, it connects to a face plate near a switch titled "fuse". The other wire (the live wire) connects to the green circuit board. The live wire of the charger, I think I should connect to BOTH white wires of the plug, the ground charger wire to BOTH the green wires of the plug, and cap off the remaining two wires of the plug. Does this sound like a good idea?
The link to the thread you mention is:
http://visforvoltage.org/forum/3491-evt-168-it-possible-derestrict#comment-23137
I'm confused about how you're describing the soneil charger. The Soneil's I have all have a wire pair that comes out of the charger, the wire pair has a + and - wire, and it is that wire pair that you connect to the pack. It sounds like in your case that's missing?
In any case once you identify the + and - of the charger, yes you connect that to the matching + and - of the battery pack.
- David Herron, The Long Tail Pipe, davidherron.com, 7gen.com, What is Reiki
Silly Me. Yes there is a wire pair coming out of the Soneil. I've identified the + and - wires, and will connect the + to the two white wires of the plug, and will connect the - to the two (green) grounds, capping of the black wires of the plug.
Thanks.