If your battery boxes are a bit deeper than mine, and you can put the
leaf modules in vertically you should be able to fit them. However, if
they are sized for 12 lead acid batteries, you may have difficulty
getting all 48 leaf modules in.
I put all 48 leaf modules in the space that was formerly occupied by 16
golf cart batteries, with a (little!) space left over.
I'll be posting my installation video in a few days, you'll probably
want to watch it ;>
I had to cut the bottom ends of my "wood plates" down to 1/2" long
(minimal air flow distance) to get them to fit, as well as cut off all
the excess threaded rod, and there isn't much room on the "top" side
with all the connections, so it's basically about minimal. You could get
some more room by using thin steel instead of wood, but then would have
to worry about conductivity ;>
If you built your own battery boxes and don't mind re-welding them, you
should be able to easily get more modules in them if you make them fit
the vertically size of the leaf modules (this also allows all
connections to be on the top, which would have been much nicer!
Jay
On 12/29/2015 01:07 PM, nicklogan via EV wrote:
Jay,
Great work and having it well documented is very valuable. I am at
the end of life for my truck's 144V pack of 12V cart batteries and was not
planning on doing lead again. Using new CALB cells is more money than I want
to put into a conversion considering the options for used factory ev's. My
battery boxes are laid out similar to yours but I'm hoping to stay with a
144v pack so I'll have to check your CAD battery drawing to see if I can
squeeze in more. Would you consider the current end plate size to be the
minimum length and width? Congratulations on the first drive!
Regards,
John Nicholson
http://www.evalbum.com/2672
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