The original Solar Electric converter (now defunct) tie down straps for the two (four-battery) racks in front and the large metal battery box in the rear, were angle iron shaped/rolled into a square tube held down with a long shafted threaded stem and a wing nut (all connected to chassis ground).
After Mike Slominski of Mike's Auto Care (now retired) did my upgrade from 120VDC to 132VDC (and many other items), the front racks used flexible metal hold-down straps, but all were still grounded to chassis ground. See pics at http://brucedp.150m.com/blazer/index2.html Since I would be showing with Production EVs, the plastic you mentioned was to spiff-up the under-the-hood look of my conversion. You had to be there at that time (circa late 1990's to early 2000's) when Automaker reps would snicker at and make snide remarks of conversions. The extra cost of surrounding my battery racks and box with pretty non-isolating plastic was worth the cost, if even just to overcome the junk being thrown at conversion EVs (as if we were not a valid EV, and only Production EVs were). {brucedp.150m.com} On Wed, Jan 30, 2013, at 02:07 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote: > I swear I have a memory of looking at your engine bay some 10-15 years > ago, and it had polypro (or similiar) cases for the front pack(s). If > you had metal racks actually touching the tops of your batteries, I > would certainly like to know how you managed to avoid GFI trips through > unisolated chargers. - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
