Hi everybody. I've been plugging away and the electric D is just about ready for field trials (sans body and lights, a field is about the only place I'll be able to test it for now). I have a question about buddy pairing batteries. I have 16 free Hawker 26 Ah batteries,, and 10 Panasonic 17Ah, for a 96 volt pack. The Hawkers are used, but the Panasonics are unused, though 2 years old. I was planning to buddy-pair just the Hawkers for my test pack, but I'm wondering if I can incorporate the Panasonics too. Would I be condemning them to an early grave by trying to use them with their bigger cousins? Could they be used as a separate string?, or put into buddy triplets? I could always keep them for a bike or scooter.
I plan to use one of the 17Ah Panasonics for a 12 volt auxiliary battery, charged with the DC/DC converter. (Please steer me right if this is not a reasonable idea). Of course, I'll need a beefier pack for the final product. I just thought that I could use the free batteries for cannon fodder while I get the bugs out of my conversion. Then I'll have some numbers with which to assess my needs. Judging by the way the rest of the project has gone (I'm sure that Hofstadter's mother's maiden name was Murphy), I'll probably start with half of them hooked up backwards. Talk about yer comedy of errors.... Mike Hoskinson "I'm a DOCTOR, not an engineer" - Leonard McCoy
