Hi Bruce, I was around and read all the varied charger reports you posted. I'm surprised to see you recommending someone go and buy 20 of the cheapest untested (smart?) chargers you could find. I recall you going through many of these types of chargers and it seems very few of them worked up to spec or for very long. I wonder what has changed in the world to make you believe that randomly picking the cheapest one today will provide a reliable charge method when you spent so much time in the past putting them through their paces and reporting back to the list the plus and minuses of each brand you tried. It's been a few years though so perhaps my memory is foggy or maybe you have had lots of experience since then with these mobility scooter chargers which has shaped your opinion. I know I recently purchased a Soneil 24volt 5 amp charger off ebay for around $40 that I am quite happy with, but this is a charger that usually retails for over $200 and is known to be of good quality. Even if you could find a sufficient supply of these at Ebay prices you would still blow the budget. damon
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 05:57:49 -0700 > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Looking for adjustable charger (used) 96-120V > > If you bought 20 of these, you could use them in either with a 96V pack > or a 120V pack: > 96V pack: 5 in parallel for each set of three 8V wet-cell batteries for > a charge current of 10A > or > I found some of these low cost chargers at: > http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=24V+2A&qid=1368163884&rh=n%3A3375251%2Ck%3A24V+2A&sort=price > > Searching ebay, I found one > http://www.ebay.com/itm/24V-2A-AC-DC-Adapter-Power-Supply-Cord-Charger-5-5mm-Tip-For-LCD-Monitor-Printer-/290846323487?pt=Laptop_Adapters_Chargers&hash=item43b7cab31f > smart 2A 24V charger that can run off of a level-1 120VAC or a level-2 > 208-240VAC source (input: 100-240VAC). Choosing this type that can run > off either would be wiser as in the future your customer could upgrade > to be able to use the public J1772. > These were $10.59/ea+free-shipping Quantity 20 = $211.8 which is under > your price range. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130510/58d28077/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
