Battery Vehicle Society

The BMS boards I am using have been purchased from ebay seller Ping Battery. Pictures of the 24v version of these boards can be found here; http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/ThunderSky/photos/browse/5965 While connecting the first one up I had all the little wires attached to the board. These wi...

; Li-Ion Battery/Vehicle Management Software by Gregory Fordyce. ; For use with Splatco CC16 programable controller (www.splatco.com) ; and "off the shelf" BMS modules designed for e-bikes, etc. ; Version 0.3 - 6 Sep 2008 ;This BMS program and hardware implementation carry no warr...

I have been working on a BMS system for use with my new Li-ion cells fitted to my Fiat 126. The car is using a Agni 95 turn PM DC motor with a Kelly KD72401 controller that gives regenerative braking. While looking for options for a BMS system I found, among others, Reap systems 14 cell boards and C...

Bit of a glitch with cell delivery :( I now expect them next Monday. My cells took just over a week after clearing customs before I got my hands on them, I think it has to do with finding the correct container on the ship and then sorting through it to find your shipment. Anyway, I've adapted the S...

Slaves without a Master, very cool. But are they still slaves then?

I like that idea. Will soon post what I have been working on regarding a BMS, I know I said last week, but hopefully this week. Still working on a few bugs.

Greg

Hi Everybody, I have also started to go down this route & am in touch with a chinese company called Heter, http://www.heter.biz , & have just sent them Peugeots manuals on the 106 & Saxo electrique. So far they have come up with a price of 1500 dollars a pack. A pack consists of a batte...

MalcolmB wrote: do you know roughly how much the Fiat weighs now?

Fiat weighs in at 650kg, 30kg above the published curb weight.

I want a load of made up two core twisted leads say varying from 50 - 200mm long. They must be available in the skip full from somewhere :? Peter, Pretty much all modern cars have twisted pairs in the wiring harnesses for ABS, Airbags and loads of other things. You might be able to source some from...

In addition to the light weight, several other things are helping the efficiency. Lithiums seem to only reuire about as much current put back in that was taken out. My e-meter counts the ah back down to zero, when it hits 0 the charge has switched off. Lead acid require more to be put back in before...

Noalox, Penetrox and other Anti-Corrosive Zinc Pastes were originally developed for the American housing market. For a while Aluminium was used as well as copper for household wiring and these pastes were to be used on the aluminium connections. If installed correctly it could be as reliable as copp...