Hi Rick and All,
Thanks all for the experiences so far. I appreciate it as do others. Please let us know how yours is working with lithium charging too as we need a good sample as we need a good low cost wthr meter especially with adjustable relay outputs. Cruisin, yes I know more complicated BMS, pricey, could be better thought not necessarily, but bottom balancing with top voltage charging limit and Lee Hart's Battery Bridge fault indicators will alert me to a bad cell if and when that happens. I haven't found enough on yours to know if it is good for me or not. Is there details, price on it somewhere I can study? While 1 BattB on the whole pack could work 1 per 2 modules housed in a lightproof box to a phototransistor or an optical coupler would at low cost monitor each module if needed for fault conditions of not just a bad cell but connections, etc that can damage too. Since EV production car lithium specs are so tight this can work it seems along with not discharging below 10% and not charging above 95% is likely a good way to go. Since it has worked on even the better of Chinese lithium, LG cells shouldn't be a problem. I'll charge full power until the end as it'll show a fault better, before damage happens in my system is the plan. Please those doing similar or other version please let me/us know how it's doing? Thanks, Jerry Dycus . On Sunday, October 12, 2014 10:56 PM, Rick Beebe via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: I have a JLD-404 that I use as a fuel gauge and it's worked flawlessly for that. It seems to be pretty accurate. I have bought things from EVTV even though they are more expensive than other sources, but these I buy right from lightobject because Jack has cranked up the price way too much. Their shipping is fair and quick. I also use one of their JLD-612DC temperature controllers to control the water heater in my truck. It too works well. A problem, however, with controlling a charger is knowing what to trigger on. The normal charge scheme is to charge to a certain voltage at whatever amperage you can manage and then hold that voltage and taper the current off to some small value. I don't think you can really duplicate that. I suppose you could turn it off at some voltage and when the pack voltage drops (which it will almost immediately) turn it back on until it stops dropping below the threshold. You could trigger on Ah but I always put more in than I took out so that's problematic too. --Rick On 10/12/2014 3:10 PM, jerry freedomev via EV wrote: > Hi All, In my continuing fight to lower lithium battery pack costs I > was wondering if anyone has experience with the Lightobject Wthr , > etc meter like the one EVTV made the vid of they rebranded? > Especially interested in it's use turning off the battery charger and > how well it keeps track of battery capacity of lithium packs, etc? >> Thanks, > Jerry Dycus _______________________________________________ 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 ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141013/0e90fb99/attachment-0001.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)