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Installing a manzanita charger in your ranger ev

You can have a manzanita micro LLC charger in your ranger in less then the time it takes to actually charge your ranger ev .......................

You do not have to install the manzanita in your ranger ev, I did as I want it with me if I need it ..

You can actually just put the connectors in and the switch and use it setting on a bench away from the ranger ev with a longer plug in .......................

Your choice, this is just the way I did my personal rangers ......... I have 2 rangers right now and all I do is put a extension cable from my manzanita over to the other ranger to charge it ....

I will start with the Needed things, one thing we need to do is to tap into the magnetic switch in order to use the NGS tester to ignite the circuits .... the first thing is to tap a switch into the two wires ... I added a switch and tapped it into to red wire and the yellow wire ... we need this to turn on the power in the ranger ev needed to let the NGS tester be used in the active command modes, if you do not have this it will just keep telling you that it cannot complete the command ..

these are the wires in the back of the avcon input connector , you do not have to cut them loose I just do so I can easily get to them ................. I have eliminated the avcon input assy. from one of my ranger ev's but that is in another section ...

Here is where I put the switch when this switch is turned on it tells the dash that a charging cable has been plugged into the ranger ev , this makes it so you can not under any circumstances drive the vehicle when this switch is on .................................... This switch connects the yellow wire and the red wire together .................................

Another step needs to be done is we need to have a way to get the power into the ranger ev , the anderson connectors are a standard connector for the newer chargers both the Zivan chargers and the Manzanita Micro LLC chargers have them ...... here I built a 2 headed charging anderson connector , one has the white wire and the yellow wire and the other one has a white wire and a orange wire .. the white wire is common so I hook them together to create 3 wires that need to be connected in the HVPDB box ....

remove the cover off of the HVPDB box and we need to drill a hole into the box to install the newly made cable assy. ...................

Install the newly made cable assy into the hole and install the holding nut onto the connector so it is solidly locked in ...................................

Time to wire it in , splice the white wire into any white wire in the box as they are all the minus of the pack , then put a ring on the end of the yellow wire and add it to the center where the yellow wire already is .......... then splice the orange wire into the orange wire in the box ....

close the box back up again and that part is all done .

Here it is all finished and now ready for some voltage and these two connectors can now be used as a driving and as a parked connector for charging .. if you have a electronics approved generator you could actually put it in the back of the ranger ev and power the manzanita with it while you are driving down the road , this is the connector with the white and the yellow wires ..

the other connector can be used as a parked and charging connector using the NGS tester..

OK , the ranger ev work is done , this should not take more then a hour or so to do the above changes to the ranger ev ... now we will get the Manzanita ready for installing ... very important is that the Manzanita Micro LLC needs to be fully isolated from the chassis so I make plastic and rubber the isolators ............ Here is a look at the Front Plastic Hanger attached to the Manzanita there is no bolting needed in the front of the charger to the ranger ev ... you can see that the metal is isolated by using plastic ..............................

Here is the back isolating plastic piece built and bolted onto the manzanita ....

Remove the bolts holding the ptc assy. on top of the charger, it needs to be lifted up in order for the new plastic bracket to fit over the pieces sticking up on the original charger , we are bolting it to the existing charger as to keep it out of the way and also allow you to use the original charger when needed ... you will see I am using both on my current ranger ev with so far good success..

I install a piece of rubber on the the front of the original charger to make sure that nothing metal from the manzanita can touch anything else ... I use velcro to hold it down ................

here it is installed and a good view of the back of it bolted into place ...

Here is a great pic of how the front end works , it just sets into the front section, plastic in the middle between the metal so it can not ground ........................

I like to remove and replace the original plug with a nice 4 prong L16-30 plug twist lock assy ...

here is one that I did .............................. Or at least replace this bad 4 prong plug with a good solid 30 to 50 amp 3 prong welder style plug ... I am not sure why they ship with a 4 prong connector because if you open it up there is only 3 wires connected, the ground and the 2 110 volt legs are all that is used ....................................................

Here is the round twist lock plug installed, I like being able to pull the plug out and being able to plug it in easily ...........................

The plug tucks into behind the grille and is hidden really easily .........................

There you have it time to plug it in and give it a test ...............

One more quick thing before I tell you how to turn all this now installed system on !!

the great thing about the Manzanita Micro LLC is that it works with either 220 volts or 110 volts

this is an amazing thing to me !!! you can charge twice as fast at 220 volts but when you are just out at your friends sometimes you can not get to 220 volts , not a problem now make an adapter and you can plug the manzanita into 110 volts in front of a friends house while visiting ....

OK , now the last thing we need to be able to do is to actually turn the darn thing on !!!

First thing I do is Plug in the Manzanita (be sure that the breaker on the Manzanita is off and the current knob is all the way counterclockwise) , you can at this time go to the manual that came with your Manzanita micro llc and set it up the way it says to do it ........

Now flip the switch that you installed in the front grille area ......... this now tells the ranger ev that it is plugged in ...................

Next we need to get the ranger charging relay turned on so we can charge ....

Using the NGS tester, plug it into the obdII connection under the steering wheel which will bring up the menu .................

Select Vehicle

Select Diagnostics data link

Select BCM

Select Active command modes

Scroll down and select contactor output control

Press setup (#8)

Press setup (#4)

Press cancel one time

Press trigger once

Use scroll and close the charger relay

then press trigger once and you have now turned on the relay ..

you can chose the pid's to monitor on the right hand side, I like to watch aux_cnt that is the amps going into the pack I also like to watch the bat_soc and cus_soc so I know when the ranger ev is at 99.9% which is full ...................... you can then set the timer on the manzanita to about 1 hour so it float charges the batteries to help keep them equalized .................

Once this is done then all you have to do is turn on the breaker on the manzanita and turn the current knob up until you are running between 10 and 15 amps running 220 volts

or 5 to 8 amps running 110 volts ... you dont want to turn it up to high as it charges too quick

and you could also overload the breaker on the wall by asking for too many amps ...

when you are done just turn off the manzanita and turn your switch in front of the grille off and then unplug the manzanita from the wall and go out and drive your newly charged ranger ev..

This allows you to charge to any voltage and at any current you would like !!!

Have fun and thanks for reading along .............................................