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good info on batteries in series
By ibedonc, Section Controls Posted on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 04:04:11 AM MST
good info on batteries in series

this is about a electric car , but good info on maintaining batteries in series and circuits to equilize a bank of batteries
http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/sparrow/s_diary.html

good info on batteries in series | 2 comments (2 topical)

Re: good info on batteries in series (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by Volvo farmer on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:42:55 AM MST

This is sort of an off-topic "rant and opinion" but I read that guys diary and it appears his battery bank lasted about 6000 miles. For an ordinary person, driving 10,000 miles a year or so, that would be unacceptable.

Another thing that bugs me is how he brags that his car has "zero emissions". Where I live, most of our electricity is provided from coal fired plants so anyone using an electric car here is just moving their emissions a couple hundred miles away. And how much embodied energy does a person use replacing hundreds of pounds of lead acid batteries every 6000 miles?

Volvo Farmer

Re: good info on batteries in series (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by Norm on Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 12:48:03 PM MST

he brags that his car has "zero emissions".
You must have missed the parts where he started off with 2 solar panels that he was
partial charging his batteries...then toward the
end I think he was totally charging his batteries... because mostly of lessened capacity...due to accidently overcharging....
which was why he only got 6000 miles on the first set....I think.....maybe I read it wrong.
( :>) Norm.
( :>) Norm
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good info on batteries in series | 2 comments (2 topical)

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