I know that Mike Phillips, then living in San Jose, did a US Electricar S10 conversion from its original 312V of lead acid to flooded NiCd cells. When he was moving about 15 years ago, he sold that truck to a grower in SF North Bay, so that the buyer could get a lower (EV) electric rate for his business, but never drove the truck, it just sat in his yard. About 7 years ago he started offering it for sale and after 3 more he and I agreed on a price and I towed it back to South Bay, removed the NiCd and installed a dual Leaf pack. Just last week I sold all remaining cells and will be sending those in a crate to the next owner! Cor.
On Sat, May 3, 2025, 7:53 PM John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/3/2025 6:09 PM, John Lussmyer via EV wrote: > > I'm digging some old BB600's out of my shop archive to see if I can > > still use them to run an old 36v Taylor Dunn cart. > > https://www.casadelgato.com/BB600/BB600.html > > > I just did some digging through my history. We originally bought these > (surplus) in 2005. > All mine were destroyed in a shop fire in 2006. > The ones I have now were from someone else, who used them in a small > pickup truck. They eventually stopped using them and gave them to me. > (I don't know if he switched to other batteries, or the conversion had > an issue, or whatever...) > I think they've been in my shop for something like 15(?) years. > After being somewhat abused by the previous owner, and sitting for so > long, they are definitely in rough shape. > I'm sorting through them, finding ones that don't show signs of over > heated posts (melted plastic around them), and aren't bulged. > I think this cuts it down to about 1/2 the cells will be usable. > It's also interesting that the nickel plating on the copper busbars has > almost completely failed. What little is left is curled and flaking off. > A pack of 32 cells (1.2v nominal ea) should be a reasonable replacement > for 6, 6v golf cat batteries - voltage wise. Not sure if a single > string of BB600 will be able to handle the current needs of the cart. > If not, I should have enough to make 2 strings. > > > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250503/e6b8e4f5/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
