When doing things on the cheap / in less-costly mode ... Way back when I had my first set of upgrades http://brucedp.150m.com/blazer/index2.html part of which was to bump up my pack from 120VDC T125's to 132VDC T145's, the professional converter (Mike Slominski, now retired, likely from all the money I spent on my EV ...) used cheap (fan-less) infrared space heaters to drain the pack https://www.google.com/search?q=electric+infrared+heaters&biw=1024&bih=646&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=jf9bVOL3Go7loATc0YCoDA He put several of them in parallel on my pack to get the correct amount of load.
This put a few cycles on the new pack before I got the EV back, let Mike test the pack's capacity (see if his range calculations were right), and he used the waste heat to warm up his open air garage (his power to charge the pack, now heated the garage> Mike = 1smart-cookie) These long heaters did not need a built-in fan, so though they were designed to used 120VAC, they drained my 132VDC pack just fine (fully charged 150VDC, end-of-charge 108VDC). {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Q-about-using-an-electronic-load-tp4672400p4672413.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)