Sounds like rather than just making a charger just for charging Li-ion, perhaps a module with smarts (hair-ball) tells the charger to back off.
Are we going to have to have smoothers for each battery, like Optimas? I would like to reduce the amount of wires running everywhere. Not only is that a mess to put back after doing something that makes you undo-redo the pack, but it makes the design prone to failure. Maybe a module that senses four batteries at a time, would talk to the smart module. That way for every four batteries only one wire-pair would run to the next module ... module ... then to the smart box. Perhaps these modules would have addressing, and the smart box could poll for them (a 2 wire network). What would be the target EV design for going to Li-ion? Would it be a 200 VDC or higher EV? Would the sub 200 VDC pack just be a series-parallel design? Or would it matter? -Bruce ===== ' ____ ~/__|o\__ '@----- @'---(= . http://geocities.com/brucedp/ . EV List Editor & RE newswires . (originator of the EV ascci art above) ===== __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
