Great sugestion. In fact, I cut the partially melted lug off the cable so I could use the remaining clamp and cable to secure to the AUX battery which is the same type (2x 6V) and I swapped one of those into my pack, using the cable that used to interconnect the two aux batteries instead of the damaged cable. That has allowed me to drive 200 miles in the past week or so... I have a friend who is also metal-artist and he likes to have a go at my damaged battery, but at this moment I have more pressing things such as a move to a home with garage...
Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck Hursch Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:29 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Re-casting battery post that melted away? Hi Cor, Have you verified your cables don't have high resistance? I'd check post-post and lug-lug resistances across all your battery cables. While the hard bump could well have caused internal damage to one or more batteries, it would be a good idea to check top-side also. If you haven't already repaired the battery, if it is in fact repairable, since I believe you live in an apt., it's probably just simplest to give Jim Ramos @ American Battery a call and arrange for him to recast the post. I have some recollection he will do that. Chuck On 3/28/2013 9:35 PM, Cor van de Water wrote: > Hi Scott, > No problem - indeed an automotive (round) style post. > The week before it melted, I hit a particular hard bump > with the truck, so I have some suspicion that the batteries > may have moved from that bump and either the post was damaged > (maybe sheared partially off) or the clamp was never tight > enough so it moved, crud or corrosion cause bad contact > and the resistance heated the post until it melted. > The last few days before this happening I was asking > myself why the charge meter was dropping so fast in the > first mile driven, going down 10% within 1 mile, as if the > pack was losing charge or dropped in voltage, but it was not > cold weather. Now I know that it was the high resistance link! > > Next time I will be more in tune with the signs that say > that something is amiss in the pack... > > Cor van de Water > Chief Scientist > Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com > Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info > Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of 85VWCabrioletEV > Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 9:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Re-casting battery post that melted away? > > Nevemind.....dummy me should have looked at the pics first.......thanks > > Cheers, > Scott > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-casting- > battery-post-that-melted-away-tp4662140p4662156.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > . > _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
