> From: Lee Hart <[email protected]> > > Michael Ross wrote: >> Doubtful you can buy it, but you can make one. I am in the process myself. >> Sure you want to do this at home? This much power is non-trivial. Be >> wary. > > A single cell isn't too bad. Doing a whole pack gets into high power > territory.
Depending on your pack voltage, you might consider electric baseboard heaters for a load. They are designed to dissipate heat! And they are fairly cheap, even if new. When people re-model, they are often free. I put an ad on our local Craigslist for a bunch of these, and bartered ten of them for some canned farm goods. I strip the heating element out and mount it to the bottom of our greenhouse tables for early spring seedling heat. (Seed mats designed for the purpose cost hundreds of dollars!) A 6' baseboard dissipates 5kW at 240 volts, or 1.25kW at 120 volts. You can parallel or series various units to come up with just about any multi-kilowatt power dissipation you want. Do this in the winter and save on your gas or wood heating bill. (Do it in the summer, and add to your air-conditioning bill. :-) :::: Wouldn’t it be something to live in an era when every town and village has its own honored food farmers as well as its own revered artists, artisans, musicians, writers, restaurateurs and educators? -- Gene Logsdon :::: 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)
