I've used a number of things over the years.
Insulation does a *lot* to reduce the power needed for heating/cooling.
If you have 1" of styrafoam on all sides of your batteries, and you
drive your EV every day, you probably won't need heaters. The waste heat
produced by battery resistance durin
We have had excellent results using water bed heaters in our projects.
-Tom
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Rick Beebe via EV
wrote:
> I have 4 battery boxes for my LiFePo4 cells. Two hold 8 cells, one holds
> 12, and the big one holds 28. They are aluminum boxes I had made by
> customaluminum
I have 4 battery boxes for my LiFePo4 cells. Two hold 8 cells, one holds
12, and the big one holds 28. They are aluminum boxes I had made by
customaluminumboxes.com and I oversized them 2" in all directions. I put
1" foam insulation around the batteries. I bought 10 battery heating
pads from KT
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Sent: 1/3/2017 10:41 AM
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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. On
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, s
whats a good for heating batteries ?
water bed heater pad ?
What else could be used?
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