We have had excellent results using water bed heaters in our projects. -Tom
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Rick Beebe via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 4 battery boxes for my LiFePo4 cells. Two hold 8 cells, one holds > 12, and the big one holds 28. They are aluminum boxes I had made by > customaluminumboxes.com and I oversized them 2" in all directions. I put > 1" foam insulation around the batteries. I bought 10 battery heating pads > from KTA. They're some kind of mica sheets with heating elements in them > sized to fit under a 12v starter battery. I put one each in the small > boxes, 2 in the medium box and 6 in the large box with the cells sitting on > top of them. I heat them from shoreline power when the truck is plugged in. > I figure I want the batteries warm when I leave for better range and the > insulation will help them stay warm during my travels. They worked great > BUT failed partway through the third winter. My big box had too much flex > and the brittle panels broke. > > The pads in the little boxes were fine so I replaced the 6 pads in the big > box with two of these silicone rubber heating pads: > http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=batheater&cat=16. Very expensive > but flexible. So far they're working well. > > --Rick > > > > On 1/3/2017 1:59 AM, ken via EV wrote: > >> whats a good for heating batteries ? >> water bed heater pad ? >> What else could be used? >> > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group > /NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20170103/545bc8cd/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
