Battery Vehicle Society

HI
If anybody is interested there is a couple of berlingo electriques on ebay on of them has faulty cells and the other is in very good condition.
I bought one of ebay a few weeks ago and another guy arrived also he let me buy the berlingo in the end.
His mate bought another berlingo with fault light needed repairs.
The one i bought had a faulty heater (webasto thermo top 5kw) i nearlly got it working but then toasted the PCB. Bought another one now though i hope the heater works cos im going to nick it for this other one its freezing in the mornings.
Has anybody tried using the heater to bring batteries up to optimum temperature using temp sensor and controls ectr.. to increase range in winter. Im getting 40 miles now.

I've moved your post into the PSA section

I have wondered about re-routing the heater into the batts to warm them up a tadge but the heater really gets far to hot for battery heating I think, I've recorded temps of 70C on the heater output pipe where as the batts really never get much warmer then 30C

So it could be a tadge risky I think, I wouldnt recomend it.

ChrisB