-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have an S-10 electric conversion with 20 6 Volt golf cart batteries. They have studs. I am on my 2nd set of batteries and haven't melted any lead or had any studs pull out.
I tighten them with a small (6") wrench wrapped in electrical tape, so can't get too much torque on them, and I don't try to tighten them as tight as I could get them even with that small wrench. I do check tightness after the first two weeks of driving, and then again every 1-2 months when I water the batteries. I also use lock washers just under the nut and haven't found many that need tightening when I check. (and after I tightened up the one or two nuts on my first check after switching packs or adding the PakTraker system they usually all stay put after that....) The batteries are well packed into the battery boxes with foam, so they don't move around, and then 2/0 wires have enough slack so that the lugs shouldn't be moving around or putting pressure on the studs/nuts as the truck bounces around. The controller is rated at 500 amps max, ( Curtis 1231C-86) and I typically average 75-120 amps and sometimes pull at least 200-300 amps for at least 20-30 seconds at a time when going up long hills, etc.... [Usually the motor current maxes out at 500 amps when starting from a dead stop, but the battery current is lower....and the batteries don't seem to provide the full 500 amps when I have the throttle wide open at full speed...250-300 battery amps is the largest I've seen on the PakTrakr] http://www.evalbum.com/3693 Jay On 06/02/2014 10:56 AM, KenA via EV wrote: > The maximum amperage of my system is 500 and it typically doesn't > exceed 300. Would studs and lugs usually work for that? > > Thanks, > > Ken > > > > -- View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/FLA-terminals-tp4669714p4669785.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) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlONimMACgkQSWJjSgPNbM9NSQCfZiKK6P8dBGzb9lATmRGCVNE9 /gcAn3focoBouo4TaShRFGjj3ltdkglO =NZKZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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)
