I set up regenerative braking on the Nissan Leaf motor with Thunderstruck VCU.
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I'm using the Thunderstruck Vehicle Control Unit to control the Leaf inverter.
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To connect the VCU to the computer, I needed to use a USB to serial 5V TTL323R cable with 3.5mm plug on the end like this one:
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