I use soil heating cable. It has a built-in 75 degree F thermostat. I usually just heat the batteries from AC when charging, but I also keep a small 200 watt inverter in the car in case I need it to power the cables from 12V DC.
Bill -----Original Message----- From: "John Lussmyer via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Sent: 1/3/2017 10:41 AM To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Subject: [EVDL] battery heating pads On Mon Jan 02 22:59:41 PST 2017 ev@lists.evdl.org said: >whats a good for heating batteries ? >water bed heater pad ? >What else could be used? Many things. One thing I used some Lead Acid batteries was Gutter Ice melting cable. This is a special cable that has a PTC plastic between the wires, so you apply power, and it will self-limit to a reasonable temperature. I found that 120VAC cable would self limit to about 70 deg F when driven with 156V DC. -- Bobcats and Cougars, oh my! http://john.casadelgato.com/Pets _______________________________________________ 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) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170103/1aa764b4/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)
