Back to charging, and trying to take good care of the celles - in regard to the 24V pack on my newish mower...my power supply allows me to tell it a peak current and peak voltage. It will hold the peak voltage and current until it reaches the voltage setpoint, then the current drops - to mere milliamps if I am patient..
It sounds like I can safely set the voltage to 28.8V and 4 amps, and not be concerned if I forget for a few days. Do I have that right? If I am in a hurry, I could wait for 28.8V, then perhaps set it a 30V and 1Amp? I could rig up a JLD 612 temperature controller to be a minder and shut off the charge at 100F or so. JLD 612 has a PID finction so I could turn it on and off to maintain a temperature setpoint...not sure where exactl toe put the thermocouple or RTD to sense the temperature though. Maybe be stick in between a couple of the batteries. Does that make any sense. I am interested in a a walk away not worrying set up (with the stuff I have on hand. I could also mange it for temperature and use a plain old 10A 12V charger with the cell paralleled. Does this idea have merit/ Thanks, Mike -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140429/f471fff5/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)