Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-17 Thread Matt via EV
: Alan Arrison Subject: Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely Ouch! Your whole ex$pensive pack destroyed? What did you do about the alarm that was sounding. I'm hoping that the pack isn't really dead and there is another problem like the 12V house battery went dead. Al On 8/16/20

Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-17 Thread Willie via EV
I see online that the MiniBMS idle current is 2.2ma. If your DC:DC converter was connected and supplying power to the truck's 12v system, that probably uses yet more current to maintain the body computer, radio presets, and so on. On modern vehicles something close to 100ma of parasitic loa

Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-17 Thread Mr. Sharkey via EV
> I see online that the MiniBMS idle current is 2.2ma. Depends on the version of the MiniBMS. The early "analog" models (original and v.2) that use the LM239/339 comparitor chips typically have a quiescent current of about 6.5mA. Individual modules can have a current draw of up to 9mA. These o

Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-17 Thread EVDL Administrator via EV
Hi Denis. I'm not an expert on these matters, so if I say something wrong here, I trust that someone else will correct me. In my admittedly limited experience I have found that BMSes always use a little current from the cells they're monitoring. I see online that the MiniBMS idle current i

Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-16 Thread Denis Boutet via EV
Hello Al, Some solar panel control module got defective and drained the 12V battery. Now, the module is removed and I purchased a new 12V battery. I could not understand why I could not charge the 12 V battery, it took me some time to find the problem. But now that the 12V battery is fixed

Re: [EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-16 Thread Alan Arrison via EV
Ouch! Your whole ex$pensive pack destroyed? What did you do about the alarm that was sounding. I'm hoping that the pack isn't really dead and there is another problem like the 12V house battery went dead. Al On 8/16/2020 1:27 PM, Denis Boutet via EV wrote: Hello everyone, RE: Ranger EV 2000,

[EVDL] Battery Pack drained completely

2020-08-16 Thread Denis Boutet via EV
Hello everyone, RE: Ranger EV 2000, LiFePO4 pack 104x3.65V China HiPower, 104 Mini BMS + head board, CellLog8 x 13 I need help figuring out what is wrong and how to proceed with this problem.  Any help, suggestion will be greatly appreciated. The pack seams to have been drained completely b