Crimp and Save

[geekygrilli]

Ah, thanks for the compliment, its important to crimp neatly!

I'm quite fortunate that I run a wood work and upholstery factory, and my dad's metal work factory is on the same estate. So I have a plethora of tools and machines available.
Might have been a bit excessive, but I was using a 100tonne guillotine to cut the wire!

BTW, I showed the advert for the qdos in BVR to my wife, she thinks its brilliant.
Do you supply it in kit form?
Its IC at the moment, as i understand, but do you have an electric version?

[qdos]

Petrol only at the moment but there's always ways and means to change things

It's not available as a kit but I can quite easily take the wheels and boot and bonnet off along with the seats and you can put them back on if you would like

[ChrisB]

Erm, not gonna solder, paul said crimping was the best solution.

Oooo er, must admit I prefer soldering and if done correctly they are far stonger and less likely to ever fail than crimps

But Hex are defo best type but I have to admire your nicely made crimper and crimped conections, at the end of the day once the heat shrinks over them you'll hardly know

ChrisB

[ChrisB]

It's not available as a kit but I can quite easily take the wheels and boot and bonnet off along with the seats and you can put them back on if you would like

Your really in one of those moods arnt you

ChrisB

[qdos]

Your really in one of those moods arnt you
ChrisB

Actually I was being serious there

[ChrisB]

Well I suppose some "kits" do come like that .

I built a so called ATV kit up once which seemed to consist of putting the wheels on and attaching the handles
Oh and I had to apply some stickers

and that was suppose to be supplied in "kit" form

OK so I had to go round and tighten pretty much every bolt and re-manufacture half he machine but then thats what you get with this chinese stuff

So perhaps thats what they mean when they say its supplied in a kit LOL

ChrisB

[qdos]

The Midas Gold was pretty much just a bolt the wheels on kit.

I watched my Zest being built in little over a day and it was actually the first off the production line for a customer i.e. me Now they can do them even quicker.

[geekygrilli]

It runs - yay...

well actually it did run, and it ran very well, controller up to 55 deg, not a prob.

Then went to pull away and it cut out.

Fault code VMN, diagnostics/fault finding says:
'C5 The most probable reason is that the fault is inside the controller, replace it'

Think I am going to cry, £700 down the drain. Maybe I was chucking too much current through it, but I never drove it flat out, or pulled away hard, or span the motor freely. I thought it would have a safety cut out anyway?

I'll be calling electrofit zapi first thing on Monday. Maybe they can fix it? That'll be at least a few hundrfed quid I think. Its gonna be a *please do not swear* weekend now.

Erm, bye