Hi Lawrence and All, I'm in the same boat but came up with a solution of buying 50% of the pack I wanted for now. It's 5kwhr, 120vdc tough I'll double it up at 60vdc, 90amphr for mine of Volt batteries I got for $1k is far better buy than new Chinese cells, even used ones. Leaf I would have preferred are even easier to deal with if you get that option. I asked on the list and someone with extras contacted me. There are a lot of Volt, Leaf, hybrid, totaled EV's now they are showing up . And the Volt. Leaf is quality enough you don't need the expensive BMS . Instead starting with them balanced either high or low and use a Lightobject 404 amphr meter monitor the pack and cut the charger off. Then some Lee Hart Batt bridge to monitor the cells, connections to warn before something goes bad, gets out of balance, etc. Thus reasonable pack safety for under $100 with massive data. 600lbs of lead is about 5kwhr available so 6kwhr of lithium should give you more range from 400lbs lighter too. So many old, maybe dead EV's, conversions could be great low cost EV's just by converting to lithium. Jerry Dycus From: Lawrence Rhodes via EV <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:37 PM Subject: [EVDL] Need battery pack or sell car. I might be able to get my Ford Aspire back. But I need to go lithium. I wonder what the minimum size pack I can get by with is. I don't have much money. I'll need BMS and a charger. Might settle for a 40 mile range. But bigger is better. I have 600 pounds of lead now that are gone. The car weighed 2000 pounds and change stock. Anybody stuck with a pack to get rid of? As an alternative the Aspire with amazing performance might be available for 2000 dollars. 144vdc system. Vacuum pump for the brakes. Iota DC/DC. 700 amp modified Curtis 1221B It is currently in Santa Cruz. Add a pack and go. Lawrence Rhodes http://www.evalbum.com/418 The current state is rougher but all there and in running condition. Not an inch of space inside was lost in this conversion. The Aspire has plenty of space for batteries and components. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150125/fcb44e49/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
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