Mike, What voltage is your current pack? Just last week I sold my Ford Ranger that had a 120V pack. I was planning to put a Lithium pack in, but had too many projects even though I had a Lithium pack sitting here for when the golfcart batteries would be end of life, which was near. But someone wanted it without the Lithium, so I still have 138V worth of 180Ah cells that would be quite ideal for a Ranger. They do need a BMS, but so would a Leaf pack at much lower voltage and this is actually one of the main concerns in selecting which one to use.
I can give you some advise, but it is important to educate yourself as you will be "living" with the results and will be your own first line of support when you need to do some work on the truck. Let me know if you are interested in this Lithium pack, my other idea for use it is as backup battery, along the lines of the Tesla Powerwall, as it is about 20kWh so much more than a powerwall and I can store it on a shelf in my garage. Not as sexy looking but much more functional. But I like to see it go in a car as it is a waste to put this high power pack away in a garage for standby use, while it can power a whole truck... Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Mike Stolzer via EV Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 8:51 PM To: ev@lists.evdl.org Subject: [EVDL] ISO Custom Lithium Pack info Hello all, I have a lead acid S10 that I am interested in upgrading to lithium. I have had the truck for several years and I installed the pack new but they are older and need replacement. I would now like to build my own custom lithium pack but I feel that I am lacking the knowledge to do so. I have been pouring through this forum as well as looking for other sources attempting to learn but I'm afraid this may require more than reading a few articles to be up to par on what is the best approach. Identifying solid informational sources tends to be an issue. Finding the right person that is willing to take the time to show me what I need to do seems to be my best bet as I don't believe even a few replies to this post could even learn me all that is required. Although I feel I am mechanically inclined to do the project as I've taken on technical projects of my own in the past and I am capable of doing the research as well, I simply don't have the time to read several books on batteries and even then i may not be up and up on the latest. I am in search of an individual that may have several years experience doing this that would allow me to learn from them what is the correct way to proceed. If you would like to see my conversion it is on the ev America site for sale, I've recently decided that I will keep the truck if I can find the resources to help me learn how to build a lithium pack for it. I'll attempt to attach a link below. Thank you in advance for any information. http://www.evamerica.com/evforsale.html Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160622/a3fbb9d5/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
