After reading Mark Kohler's post I looked again at the attrd website. It's
changed a lot since I last checked. Now they're selling some of their Korean-
made NEV parts, and some of it is interesting.
Check out these pages:
http://www.attrd.com/part.htm
http://www.attrd.com/part/electric.htm
Most of these are NEV scale parts, but look at the price (500-lot quantity) for a
12v battery management module -- $85 and it works with a CAN bus? This
might be worth investigating.
I doubt that they'll sell to individuals, but maybe one of our dealers would like to
inquire. They have a $100 DC:DC too (48v -> 12v).