Not very elegant, but you can use the conversion / adaptors that Leaf owners use. Not cheap though. There’s a few versions around. I know in the UK, there’s a Leaf forum that has had good results with the EV Boy type.

Regarding wiring, I didn’t use the 3rd (square one) of the 3 connectors on the outside of the battery that supplied the car’s hvac stuff. I just cut that section including the socket off the aluminium metal work. So any wiring that connected to that on the inside of the battery was left out in my build.
It’s possible in the future I may get back to wanting heating, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Pictures are always good. Please post!

Single biggest time sink for me was the complication of more than 1 battery box. I don’t know LR architectures, but if you can consolidate to only 2 instead of 3 you’ll appreciate it.

Hi @isak, I have a CANbus question not covered in the documents. Where are the termination resistors in the bus? Is the Resolve VCU on a stub, or is it the end of the bus with a resistor built in? Same question about the OLED.
The reason for my question is I am switching my brake vacuum pump over to be an electric ibooster instead. The version I have has to see a CANbus network. It doesn’t need any CAN instructions to work, just needs to be the bus. For my first test, I’ve spliced between the VCU and OLED because it was easy, and this works, but this may not be the right thing to do. So I’d like to know where the best place to splice in my device is.
After this I do have some other CANbus things I’m going to try, so will probably add at least one more stub after I do the ibooster.
Thanks

@KoduEV said in Vw T2:

very nice,,what battery pack you use..OEM leaf battery or the CATL..?

Nissan leaf - 2022-ish.

Just be aware that 60 / 62kWh in Leafs are very different to the early 24 / 30 / 40 architecture. You’ll find stuff in my build thread and a separate tear down thread which you can find aswell.

I agree. I’m about to get an ESP32 to hopefully start exploring what CAN I can pick up.
I’ve got 2 objectives. Ideally I want to find D1, D2, D3, N, R, so then I can drive tally lights on my dashboard which will be nicer than the small OLED.
I’d also like to drive some lights that indicate charging status.

My build is kinda ‘complete’, although there’s now a long list of improvements I’m working on.

It’s 2014 80kW Leaf based but with later 62kWh battery.

Checked and authorised by DVLA, so now registered at electric in the UK.

I’ve done 1200 miles as an EV so far.

Main build thread is on Open Inverter forum as this forum didn’t exist when I started.

Currently looking at switching the annoying vacuum pump for a silent ibooster for the brakes.