It's time for another new update.

The past few days I've been busy connecting all of the battery cells to eachother. It all went well, for extra safety I already isolated all of the tools with some tape. For the rest you just have to stay very focused.

But that's not all yet, I also started on the BMS (Battery Management System).

First I made all of the wires exactly to size.

Then I connected them all to the battery cells and to eachother. Thought it'd be a lot of work but it wasn't all that bad. It was the first time something actually took less time than I expected, usually it always takes longer. They're also connected inbetween the battery boxes, this was actually the hardest since at one part I had to push 4 wires through that wire loom. The size I used actually is for only 3 wires. But it all went fine anyway.

Looks pretty nice too. The green LED's show that they're connected properly and that the battery cell is at the right level.

In the dark it also looks nice with all of those LED's. Just too bad that you won't see any of it anymore once the battery boxes are closed.

I also connected the throttle now. I used 2 resistors for this and one extra wire, these are again for the BMS. These will make sure that there's not much power available anymore once the battery cells drop below a certain level. This way you won't immediately destroy the battery cells while still being able to get off the road safely.

Also placed all of the fuses to be able to test the 12V system. Meanwhile I've already broken one and replaced it, apparently the contactors needed a little more power.

And I can already say that the 12V system is working perfectly. I just had to make a small modification with a relais, for the rest everything seems to be fine. I just have a weird problem where the controller sometimes doesn't give any power the motor after I let it run in reverse and then forward again. Could be that there's just not enough voltage since everything was connected to a 12V battery. Just have to connect the wires to the controller again and then I can try with almost 80V, see if it works better then.

First off I'd like to wish all readers a happy new year. Hopefully 2015 will be a very good year for all of you.

The first update this year and it already starts good. I was able to completely finish the top case this weekend.

The protective covers were all sprayed black. I did this myself and it actually still turned out pretty nice.

I still want to be able to detach the plates so I bought some connectors again for all of the wires. The top case itself is already waterproof so I don't need waterproof connectors for this. First I put all of the contacts on the wires.

With the connectors on.

Since I made a complete new wire harness I wanted to add some extra safety. I bought a few fuse boxes which all seperate circuits are fused with. Was a lot of work to connect this all but it'll be very nice when it's in use.

The wires between the DC-DC converter, 12V battery and wire harness were also very fun to make exactly to size. The + wire of the DC-DC converter also has a seperate fuse.

Attached everything to the protective cover. Now you know what all the holes I made in it are actually for.

Was quite some work to get everything connected before I could attach the plate but finally it looks very nice now.

DC-DC converter attached and connected.

And another protective cover on there.

The 12V battery I won't connect for now. I did this for a short moment but then I saw that the DC-DC converter actually draws a little power. So I can only connect it once I have the whole battery pack connected so the DC-DC converter can keep the 12V battery charged. That's what I'll be busy with the coming days. Will be a bit more exciting since I won't be working with 12V anymore but 72V.

Just a quick update before the end of the year. I continued with the wiring again. The wire harness itself is pretty much done. Just still had to connect everything at the rear to the controller and in the top case.

On the controller I've done it already, everything's connected there now.

In the top case I removed the protective plate again and made some modifications. The round holes are for cable pass through and some switches. What the bigger holes in the front side are for I'll show you in a few days once the plates are sprayed and everything's on there.

The wires to the top case are also all in there already, just still have to connect them all.

And the thicker high voltage wires for the DC-DC converter are also ready to be connected.

Next year there'll be more updates again. January will be very fun, that's what I can tell already.

Past few days I was able to do a bit more again. The charge inlet is all connected now. Just still have to find a way to seal the rubber at the bottom.

I also still continued with the wire harness, there are quite a few wires added again and everything that had to be combined is already soldered.

The wire harness is almost completely done for a test ride now. Just still have to add the wires for the lighting after that. But I'm still waiting on the new wires that I ordered, untill I get them I can't really continue with it.

The past 3 weeks I unfortunately didn't have much time to work on the quad bike so not much has happened. But I did make a start already on the wire harness.

First I started with placing the waterproof connectors on all of the wires. A lot of time went into this. I do have a special tool for this but there are quite a lot of wires where I have to crimp the contacts onto.

Here with just the contacts and rubbers on there.

Then I placed the connector enclosures on there.

I've done the same with all of the switches on the gauge plate.

This weekend I could finally start with the wire harness itself. I just found out already that I don't have enough wires and also not enough connectors. So I'll have to wait for that to be able to continue again. But I do already have a few wires done.

Meanwhile I also had to modify the handlebar switch a bit. I saw in the diagram of it that it has to be connected in a different way than the original one I had. The killswitch and horn used the same + wire, that would never work well in my case. So I gave the horn a seperate + wire and I also switched around the wires for the killswitch so the icons will match with what it actually does. Was a bit easier than having to adapt the whole wire harness to this.

The coming days I'll continue with the wire harness again, this is the kind of work that I really like.