certified standards. When you're dealing with 1K+ volts you get careful, of
course it's the current that counts.
For my masters I worked on a prototype hybrid electric car. 28
12V 13Ah lead-acid batteries in series with enough copper to carry a
kiloamp easily. As I was assembling the busbars, I got progressively more
nervous the more I had linked together. Generally did it in a
reverse-binary fashion (1-1, then 2-2, then 4-4...). Only the last
connection was connecting more than 1/2 the pack.
Yes, one slipup with a 350VDC pack hurts. Ask *me* how I know
(and the garage I was in that got a wrench involuntarily thrown across
it).
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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