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European Right to Repair legislation 2021 stipulates 10 year spare parts availability.

Which is surprising as one of the first things he did at McLaren was kill the EV programme....

The AC charger and the DCDC 150kW step up converter are regular failure points on J1.1....

That does imply that differential ageing is occurring across the DC cap bank. Could be heat, could be differing electrical loading depending on location on the board. Worth tracking to get more data.

Well I suppose at least that's better than a bankrupt *Italian* company doing the 22kW OBDCs!!!

If they are individual caps, I'd recommend measuring them all when you remove them from the HV PCB and noting their location on the PCB as you remove them. It's possible that the design of the PCB is preferentially ageing the ones "nearest" the bus electrically as they get worked harder. Always...

No worries my friend, happy to help! Insider knowledge, we used to run bus caps to the thermal limit back in 2009, we literally had them all fitted with thermocouples externally and had a core temp model running real time too, that way you could push everything to the max without killing them...

Don't get me started on these feck stupid rules and changing them mid-season. I wrote the original report and recommendations for this ruleset with a colleague back in 2018 and then watched them get gutted and distorted by both the FIA AND the teams over the interceding years. It's a mess...

Wow, that's properly failed, who's the cap supplier?

Yep I understand how inverters work, that's the day job! 😉 So basically either designed too small too small to start with (betting it's the same size across all the model variants despite increasing current) and no margin for error and then degrades with heat/voltage stress through use so...

It's the caps that are the weak point? Interesting failure mode. Just overheating and failing? Or isolation failure?

Why? They're actually good apps.

Did you replace the inverters with new parts? Or repair them?

Wow! Mine (Silverstone) didn't but I had been complaining about it a while.

That looks better than any Porsche design!!!

Mine was at a reasonably well used 40k when I bought it.

Software update.

Same as me then!!! 🤷‍♂️

Fair enough! Facelift? Or late model J1.1?

Wait til your AC charger needs replaced as it won't charge your car on a ski trip, your failed fans leave you in Turtle mode in the middle of France, your DCDC converter orange rings every time you use a 400V charger and then 5 out of 7 stepper motors in the HVAC fail. oh and then the navi...