I have come upon a 26 kWh set of SAFT 4.180 flooded-cell NiCd batteries. These are industrial quality, and should last a long time, if properly cared for. But I know they are subject to damage if over-charged. All the BMSs I've seen are designed for lithium. I have the manual, but I'm worried about equalization issues in a 24 battery string.
Does anyone have experience charging these things or something similar? How are you doing it? Are you using a BMS? Which one? I'm considering a Electric Motor Werks 12 kW charger. At least it's hackable. Valery says I'd need to integrate my own BMS and re-program the charging algorithm in the Arduino. Thanks in advance for any advice offered! :::: We can only continue to use oil as long as it lasts. We should be looking for other sources of energy. There's only one that's big enough, it's free, and good for at least a billion years. That's the sun. We must move into solar energy. -- M. King Hubbert :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: :::: Traditional grass-based dairy farming was a highly egalitarian enterprise; anyone with initiative and a few acres could herd animals on any kind of land, and sell or barter the products to his neighbors. Societies that consume the products of pastured animals are much less likely to exhibit huge disparities in wealth compared to societies where the economics of food are based on grain. -- Ron Schmid :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: _______________________________________________ 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)
