Hi Al, I went to the Plug in event in Santa Cruz the following day. I missed seeing you there! I'm in Cupertino nearly every day for work, and I didn't feel like going there on a weekend and having it back to back with my Santa Cruz event.
I don't think I'd ever be stranded and have to bypass a bad cell; for me, the only trouble was my BMS complaining...but even then, the cell wasn't dead (I never took it below 3.1v when sitting --- during acceleration they do sag horribly down to less than 2.5v). It just lost capacity (say 30% of its original capacity, if I recall right --- still a ~140ah cell, which isn't too bad). corbin On Nov 5, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Cruisin <[email protected]> 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. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EV-Bug-Conversion-30-000-miles-so-far-tp4666115p4666117.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)
