Quite a lot of use of these on VisforVoltage forum - mostly in Vectrixs (electric scooter). MW
On 24 Mar 2015, at 17:10, Jay Summet via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > I am now the new owner of a totaled Nissan leaf purchased at a salvage yard. > > I'd like to hear any first hand accounts or links to tutorials/howto's/photos > of anybody who has done this before. > > The plan is to drop and disassemble the battery pack, and re-package the > modules into sixteen set of 3 modules in parallel. (16S3P) This will replace > my 20 X 6v golf cart batteries (120 volt) lead acid battery pack in a few > months. > > I am seeing advice on: > 1) How to drop the battery pack safely. I don't have a lift, but do have a > large concrete pad. My current plan involves multiple floor jacks under the > battery pack. I know about the battery disconnect on the back passenger > floor, but was wondering if there was a suggested side of the pack to drop > first, how it disconnects, anything special to watch out for, etc.. > > 2) Specialized tools needed. Any tricky bolts/screws I'll need to purchase > special tools for? > > 3) Advice on pack disassembly. > > 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...) > > 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...) > > 5) I'm leaning strongly towards the MiniBMS boards for leaf cells, one per > parallel pack of 3 cells, comments one way or the other? > > 6) I'm willing to pay $200-$300 for some type of automated battery > charger/discharger with logging suitable for using on an individual 2S Nissan > leaf module. (To test and possibly bin the modules). Anybody know of an RC > type charger/tester that supports the 4.2v cells and can handle 60+Ah > discharge? (speed isn't terribly important...) > > Thanks, > Jay _______________________________________________ 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)
