Purplemeanie

On 09/11/2023 at 19:59, anthonym said:

can we ask them to run it?

Hi Anthony,

  we’ve not discussed this as a team but my inclination is to say we don’t need it. There’s two things going on to educate that response…

1. We’ve now increased the storage limits for members and that should relieve any need to increase the compression of existing uploads. There’s also the ever present increase in storage offerings on these sorts of platforms. We might hope that by the time we near any platform storage limits (at today’s limit levels), Invision will have already reviewed their storage limits for the tier of package we take from them. We’re a long way from the current limit at the moment.

2. We’ve taken a reasonably strict “black box” approach to the new site. One of the higher priority requirements of a new platform was the desire that we take an off the shelf solution that doesn’t need a lot of customization or in-depth backend knowledge. While we can often rely on significant technical knowledge from our IT team, we also don’t get many IT experts volunteer to help out. Therefore we don’t want to rely on in depth behind the scenes development and want to have a site that a “smart” but not necessarily “IT expert” level support team can manage. I appreciate what you’re proposing is probably a one off suggestion, but we don’t really want to head down a road that might lead to such in depth tweaking of Invision’s offering.

John

On 05/11/2023 at 18:31, anthonym said:

 

Incidentally IF we have terminal access to  the site, assuming it is unix like, 

 

Hi Anthony,

  just coming back on this one... We don't have terminal access to the site. 

John

Here's a few more Project-V videos, though I must admit I'm struggling to watch to the same stuff over and over. 🙂

Personally, I think my favourites are the Top Gear one with Tom Ford (because he seems to go a way back with Bob) and the Harry's Garage one.

Thanks to Ian for posting on the WhatsApp group.

And as discussed on WhatsApp, we were told that Caterham were renting a studio to invite a bunch of journos to - I was told that at Goodwood FoS. From memory I thought that was going to happen in October - it's not clear to me when these videos were filmed, but it seems that it could have been October. The car is then (possibly already has) going to be taken to Japan for a tour there.

John

Thanks to Ian for this compilation of Project V videos...

This seems like a good topic for a forum post, somewhere to keep a list of interesting Youtube EV videos.

I'll start off with one of mine then 😉

Hi Everyone,

  one of the features of the new website is that we can attach a forum to each Area or SIG. Hopefully this is a cool new way to interact.

  I'll be sending out my monthly email soon and will mention this forum there too.

John

1 minute ago, anthonym said:

Nice pic. Yes I have been playing with this the last hour or two. It seems if we paste in a link of an image it displays it, but if we attempt to use the  "Other Media" button and "Insert image from URL" then it doesn't.

So keeping it simple seems to work, but using the button menu doesn't

The image I inserted was using the "Other Media" button. Though is was from an https site... Are there any http sites anymore? It's certainly something I would be very suspicious of 🙂 

Does the image just not show up for you??

John

On 19/10/2023 at 20:52, OldAndrewE said:

Just a minor issue but on the old site you could click on a member's name in a post and see where they are located (if they have put that info in their profile).  Useful if they are selling/buying or needing assistance.  Avoids the need for the 'Where are you located?' post.  Unless I am missing it the location does not show now

Andrew, a further point on this topic. If you click on a member’s display name and go to their profile, then IF they have joined any Areas and Groups then they will be listed on their profile. On a phone that’s on one of the drop-downs on their page. You should see that on my profile for instance.

While this won’t give you a very accurate location it will tell you the general area of the country they are in, if they haven’t joined too many Areas.

As more and more people try the site out, and join their local Areas then you should start to see more members profiles filling out with the Areas they’ve joined.

Is that the sort of accuracy you were looking for.

John.

14 hours ago, OldAndrewE said:

Just a minor issue but on the old site you could click on a member's name in a post and see where they are located (if they have put that info in their profile).  Useful if they are selling/buying or needing assistance.  Avoids the need for the 'Where are you located?' post.  Unless I am missing it the location does not show now

Thanks Andrew. That will need a bit of thinking about. This new site does allow that sort of thing but we’d have to be careful not to provide too much detail. Added to the list of things to look at. 👍🏻

If that works for you Neil then go for it.

If you get a chance though, please do try the unread content link. I've been using it and find it really good. 👍 I promise not to push it any more 🤣 

John

9 hours ago, Neil220 said:

Any reason for "new and updated" being at the bottom rather than the top?

I personally used it 90% of the time, now I have to scroll down through the other topics to get to it

Hi Neil, we tried it both ways but in the end decided that it was better to have the list at the top and the "new and updated" at the bottom. That panel doesn't really do the old "new and updated" forum justice. 

This new system wants you to use the activity streams to find new and updated. You can just hit the "unread" links that are at the top and bottom of each page (on a desktop computer) or you can go to Activity menu where you'll see "Unread Content" or "My Activity Streams". The later lets you select all sorts of content and to save the search.

You'll also find that when you click on any of the activity streams, including "Unread Content" anywhere on the site, then you'll get a header at the top of the page that lets you quickly narrow down unread content. 

With all of those new features, it was touch and go whether we included the "New and Updated" section at the bottom of the forums page at all.

Pleas give the "Unread Content" a go and see how you get on.

John

Thanks Gridway, I may do exactly that but for the moment I took a damper off and measured the length of the piston between the bump-stop and the bottom of the piston. That measurement was (within my parallax capacity) 100mm. So, my rough measurement means the de-dion tube can travel a maximum of 100mm from the top of the chassis tube to its bumb stops - that was the measurement I was after.

See images extracted damper and tape measure below...

(side note: the damper and spring were actually fully extended with the de-dion tube touching the chassis tubes).

Yep, its not a lot of agro to do a measurement, I just thought it would be something that someone knew off the top of their head. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

I need to know the extent of travel as I'm looking to put something else where the diff would normally be and I'd like to know if the de-dion tube could hit it.

John

Thanks for all the feedback chaps 

I clearly need to take a damper off and play around with it.

John

Thanks Neil. So, have you any idea what the amount of travel is when you hit your adjusted end stops?

I'm going to take the dampers off my project car and do some tests, but in the short term I wondered if anyone had a rough idea of what the upper most travel would be.

If nobody has any quick thoughts then I'll give Meteor a call and bug Simon, I'm sure he'll know.

John

Can someone tell me what sort of rear suspension travel I can expect on a Seven?

Assume the car is set to a "normal' ride height and on standard factory springs/dampers (assume adjustable Bilsteins, but not the newest ones fitted to the 420 Cup). The car is an SV if makes any difference.

I'm asking so I can work out how high the de-dion tube will travel under full suspension compression. 

I guess another way of asking the question is - if you assume the rear suspension bottom's out when the de-dion tube hits the chassis tube-work, how high can the de-dion travel above that lower point?

And what's the practical limit, as I assume most cars are sprung stiffly enough that they never reach the theoretical maximum compression (or is that assumption wrong?).

Thanks, John

Hi Olly,

  as you've probably seen in Lowflying we're reviewing the Club's website with the view to having the current site replaced towards the back end of the year. We'll add your suggestion to the list of things being considered.

John

Hi Green Beastie, That was my website you linked to and I hope it was helpful. There's also a set of easier to digest articles in LF from June/July of 2020.

To your point about stock ECU's being locked - they are locked in the sense that the internal maps cannot be updated, they are write-locked. But, I understand there are some people that can get around that.

If you think I got anything wrong in LF or on my blog then please let me know by PM and I'll take a look.

In any case the information that can be read from the ECU over the OBD port is quite limited and won't show you faults with dials etc., unless Caterham have changed things since my car was built in 2017 :-). Like others on this thread have said, it sounds like the OS rear speed sensor needs some adjustment to sort the flickering speedo (I did mine again only a few weeks ago because I was getting flickers again). I can't offer any suggestions for the rev counter - but on my car the rev counter is not connected to the CANBUS and so not visible on the OBD port (the Sigma engines have CANBUS tacho's but as far as I can tell that's not the case on the Duratec's - though I'm going to check that again now I've done a lot more on Caterham electrics since I wrote those articles).

I'm not saying anything different to those who posted above, but wanted to let you know you can contact me if you have any questions about my site or articles.

John

SOLVED:

So, Colin, I missed the crucial part of your post the first time I read it. You have all 7 slots filled in your relay/module setup. The schematic in the owners manual says that 6 relays are fitted and shows the middle slot empty (of the seven).

I fixed it by putting the 3-pin indicator/flasher module into the middle slot (as you said) and putting remaining relays into the other slots (I only have 5 relays as there's no heater fitted and so no heater relay needed). 

Indicators and hazards now work - phew!

Just need to fix the lights, reversing light, fog light and washers now!

Thanks for all your help and apologies for a bit of a wild goose chase.

TLDR:

The relay, marked "indicator relay" in position 3 of the schematic, is a normally closed relay. The exact need for this is still something I'm looking into and I'll hopefully create a schematic of it all over the next few weeks. The indicator/flasher module (not a relay) is the middle module (position 4) in the row of seven. The relay module is what times the on/off switching of the indicators.

Thanks Rob I've PM'ed you.

Colin, my car only had 3 relays fitted when I got it. The indicator "module" isn't really a relay so you can't switch that around. But i did try fitting relays to the other empty positions and it just blew the indicator fuse when I tried to use the indicators. Both indicators and hazards are not working.

Jonathan, when I get it sorted I'll do a writeup.

I've also had someone check their cars (he has 5 Caterhams from various eras) and all them have a 3 pin indicator module. So... my car almost certainly should also have a 3 pin module, I just need to figure out where it goes and what other relays I need to fit to get them working.

John

Hi all,

  anyone know what indicator relay I need for a 2012 Supersport Sigma? The only ones I can see on the Caterham parts site are the short relay or the LED relay (it won't be the latter obvs.). I've tried the short relay from my 420 but that didn't work. From testing with a multi-meter, and looking at a wiring diagram from that era, it looks as though I need a four pin rather than three pin relay?

PS: I got the car with no indicator relay installed, so no idea what should go in there. The relays and fuse box is the style where all the relays are in a single line rather than in two rows of three.

Thanks, John

Well... I bought a project car!

I've bought a 2013 ex-drift car to start this EV project off with and it arrived today. It's in a pretty poor state but is ideal for my needs. There's more about it at the back of this month's LF and lots more to come in the future.

I've been driving an ID3 for 2 years now. It's fantastic around town and gives a different perspective to driving long distances. i.e. we have to plan our journeys a bit better. Having said that we find that our range is limited by our bladders these days and so a stop every couple of hours is fine on a long journey.

The instant access to power is intoxicating (even put along side my 420) and is great at hitting gaps in traffic when you're pulling out around town. 

We also find having an EV is like having a Caterham - wherever to park it you end up in a conversation with someone, especially at charging sites. I can also say that the charging network is much better now than it was even two years ago.

There are still the problems of charging if you don't have your own charging point at home - especially for people with no off street parking. But the new super-hubs that are going into the motorway service stations are pretty impressive for the longer journeys. And we're seeing those going into petrol forecourts around here too (Bristol). Charging can still be a pit patchy when you're in Scotland or Cornwall (in our recent experience) though things change very quickly and the situation in Cornwall seems to be improving.

Back to Michael's original post though. I firmly believe that electric will be out performing petrol cars on hill climbs very soon. Surely and electric Caterham will outperform a Tesla given it's lower weight and better power to weight ratio. 

Oh... and watch out for more news from me at the back of Lowflying this month and on Blatchat in the next few days. Very exciting!!!!!... well it is for me at least! 

John

• Need to recover some project sized space in your garage?
• Know you're never going to get back to that restoration project?
• Want to get rid of the garage find?

I'm looking for a SV Project Car for a reasonable price.

What I'm looking for:

• Caterham Seven SV - in any road spec
• The car doesn't need to be road worthy, but does need to have been registered at some time with the DVLA.
• No need for engine, gearbox or cooling system but I'll find a home for them if the car has them
• In fact all I really want is a chassis with as much of the rest of the car as possible (minus engine/gearbox/cooling)...
• ... but I'll consider any SV project and maybe take it off your hands

I've had some feelers out with dealers for such a car for a while but nothing much has come up. There have been a few S3 projects come up but no SV's yet. So, realistically I'm not expecting a rush of offers, but if you don't ask you don't get. It also means I'll probably refresh this request every few weeks to keep it visible to possible options.

If you're looking to get rid of an SV that is in need of some attention then please get in touch on this thread or send me a message.

thanks, John

Hi All,

  as of Thursday evening, July 21st it seems that some files are still uploading to Dropbox. Hopefully the upload should complete in the next few hours.

John