On Tue Mar 24 10:10:43 PDT 2015 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >I'd like to hear any first hand accounts or links to >tutorials/howto's/photos of anybody who has done this before.
Well, I have 120 modules in my F250 conversion. >4) Does anybody sell bus-bars that would be appropriate for a 3-5 cell >parallel pack? If I make them myself, any suggestions for material type, >size/width? The plan is to connect each "pack" of 3 cells in series >using my existing lead acid connection cables. (basically, replacing 20 >6 volt batteries with 16 7-8 volt batteries...) I had mine made out of 1/4" thick copper at a local machine shop. I also bought slighly longer bolts to hold the busbars to the modules, since the original bus bars are pretty thin. >As one Leaf has 48 cells, I'm using 3 cell packs for now, but am >considering leaving room to expand each pack into 4 or 5 cells >later...(extra holes on one/both ends of the bus-bars that stick out a >bit...) That would make things MUCH harder. The modules are held together by long rods that go through the entire stack. You'd need to put module-sized spacers between modules to leave room for future expansion. There are also heavy metal end-plates at each end of a stack. -- Worlds only All Electric F-250 truck! http://john.casadelgato.com/Electric-Vehicles/1995-Ford-F-250 _______________________________________________ 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)
