Building an Electric Car - EV Parts - Building an open source inverter logic board - Nissan Leaf

With the engine out of the Porsche, it is time to take a step back to looking at the inverter to control our Nissan Leaf motor. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to control the inverter using CAN messages, I have decided to switch my focus for the moment on to what would be stage 2 of the Nissan Leaf control, adding a new logic board to give us more control over the Nissan Leaf inverter and hopefully tune it to produce more power.

The board I have chosen is the "Open Inverter" logic board with a Nissan Leaf adaptor board. Full details of this open source inverter can be found here:
https://openinverter.org
And the boards are available to purchase through the shop.
There is also a community growing around these and associated boards built on the same architecture and software here.
https://openinverter.org/shop/
I have no association to this other than liking the design and simplicity of the product and I will let you all know how I get on with the boards in future videos.
https://openinverter.org/forum/

I haven't given up on the goal of controlling the inverter using CAN commands, however I know if I spent too much longer on it there was a risk that the project could stall as I end up focussing on that. I still want to be able to control the inverter this way, but I will pick that back up once I complete this build.

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