On 11/05/2013 05:02 PM, Cruisin wrote:
Hi Corbin, glad your bug is still running. Missed you at the Plug in America event in Cupertino this year. I have 30k miles on my 36-180ah CALB cells and just lost one. Now down to 35. Brings up a point. Important to always carry a HV cable to bypass a bad cell if it should happen as well as LV jumpers for the BMS. If I hadn't planned for a event like I had I would have been stranded. It appears now that a cell can take a dump at any time without warning leaving us stranded. For those who don't use a BMS, watch out.
I've had several TS cells fail and they seemed to have failed shorted and caused no trouble other than the expense and inconvenience of replacing cells. I do carry a jumper. With the spade terminals on miniBMS, I can usually jump around an alarming module without additional wire.
I'm a bit more than 40k miles since about 2009 on 45-48 TS-LFP260s. I just loaned it out so it can continue to accumulate some miles; it has been sitting since I got my Tesla in April.
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