Re: [EVDL] Cost of ownership / Pack Replacement report - Chevy S10 / 120v Lead Acid pack

2013-11-25 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/24/2013 11:17 PM, David Nelson wrote: > For about $5000 you could get a LiFePO4 pack I would want to buy a pack of 180 or 200 Ah Cells to replace my current pack. (I don't want to be drawing 300+ amps from a 100 Ah cell.) My existing Zivan N

Re: [EVDL] Cost of ownership / Pack Replacement report - Chevy S10 / 120v Lead Acid pack

2013-11-25 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/2013 01:59 AM, Cor van de Water wrote: > Jay, > As David already suggested - you probably killed the pay way before its > time due to daily complete re-charge after very short drives. > I too have 20 Golf cart style batteries in a light truc

Re: [EVDL] Cost of ownership / Pack Replacement report - Chevy S10 / 120v Lead Acid pack

2013-11-24 Thread Cor van de Water
ement report - Chevy S10 / 120v Lead Acid pack -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm replacing the 20 six volt lead acid golf cart batteries in my 1995 Chevy S10 conversion after 2.75 years (1008 days). My total cost of ownership (electricity, batteries, maintenance) works out to $0

Re: [EVDL] Cost of ownership / Pack Replacement report - Chevy S10 / 120v Lead Acid pack

2013-11-24 Thread David Nelson
That seems quite high. For about $5000 you could get a LiFePO4 pack and still be driving it as long as you didn't over charge or over discharge the cells. I know many think you must have a cell level BMS but so far I'm not seeing the theoretical problems on my pack and it has been over 2 years sinc

[EVDL] Cost of ownership / Pack Replacement report - Chevy S10 / 120v Lead Acid pack

2013-11-24 Thread Jay Summet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm replacing the 20 six volt lead acid golf cart batteries in my 1995 Chevy S10 conversion after 2.75 years (1008 days). My total cost of ownership (electricity, batteries, maintenance) works out to $0.66 a mile (not counting fixed insurance/registra