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E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery

Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery

Posted on 17 November 2014 at 12:07 am (CET)
Category: General, Wiring (HV)
Posted on 17 November 2014 at 12:07 am (CET)
Category: General, Wiring (HV)

Finally an update again. These past 2 weeks I've definately not just been sitting on my hands. Lets start with the small things.

I've placed the wires for the sensor to the batteries. These are very important wires, because of them I can always see the voltage of the whole battery pack and the capacity is also calculated like this. So that's definately nice to know while driving.

E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


For the looks I bought some new mirrors, these match very well with the carbon mudguards. Looks much better than the standard chrome mirrors. Just have to wait and see how the view is. The only problem is that these don't have an E-marking, so I'll still have to use the chrome mirrors for the road approval test at the RDW.

E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


But the most important is that the top case is pretty much done now. I've made a protective cover out of plastic that fits over the contactors and is closed off all around it. This way it's impossible to still touch anything with live voltage. Mounting points for this are glued in again. The DC-DC converter to convert 72V to 12V still fits very nicely on top of this as well.

E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


But since this is open on the top and has live voltage on certain parts I also had to make a seperate protective cover for this. On the rear I drilled quite some holes so the heat can go out.

E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


Then I was still left with the 12V battery. The plan was to place this as a square block as far as possible to the right but because of all the round shapes in the top case this was just too difficult. So I ended up placing it as an oblong shape in the middle. The sides are covered up again. I left the rest open, I think it looks pretty nice.

E-Streetquad Protective covers for contactors, DC-DC converter and 12V battery


This will all still be sprayed black and then I can continue with the wiring again.