Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF

2015-07-15 Thread Cor van de Water via EV
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Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF

2015-07-15 Thread Cor van de Water via EV
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Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF

2015-07-15 Thread harry henderson via EV
S, like i said, battery was at 4 volts and i had to jump it to start it [my first EV/EV jump] i had to jump it two more times that day then i got a new battery, however, the 'old' battery was only a month old. as another data point, i did need to fill up one tire several times as it had a slow

Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF

2015-07-15 Thread Jamie K via EV
Your air compressor might be a factor, I don't know. I can say that while we've also had pesky tires with very slow leaks, our air compressor can run on 120 volts in the garage so filling them every few weeks (until we finally had them fixed) didn't impact the LEAF's 12 volt battery.

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2015-07-15 Thread brucedp5 via EV
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2015-07-15 Thread brucedp5 via EV
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2015-07-15 Thread brucedp5 via EV
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2015-07-15 Thread brucedp5 via EV
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Re: [EVDL] Bicycle battery

2015-07-15 Thread Willie2 via EV
On 07/05/2015 01:38 PM, Willie2 wrote: I'm rather eagerly anticipating putting several 36v bicycle batteries in one or more golf carts. LFP cells are quoted around $1.20 per ah and the equivalent cost for bicycle batteries is slightly less than $1.20 delivered. BUT that includes a,

Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF

2015-07-15 Thread David Rees via EV
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:43 PM, Bill Dube via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: If you have a good charge regulator with your solar panel, the rest of the 12 volt system won't even know that the 12 volt is charging. You should buy a charge regulator that float charges the battery at ~13.5 volts.

Re: [EVDL] Bicycle battery

2015-07-15 Thread rick via EV
I'm happy with this one: http://www.lightobject.com/Programmable-Digital-AH-meter-red-led-Ideal-for-battery-monitoring-P870.aspx --Rick On 07/15/2015 06:59 AM, Willie2 via EV wrote: On 07/05/2015 01:38 PM, Willie2 wrote: I'm rather eagerly anticipating putting several 36v bicycle batteries

Re: [EVDL] Bicycle battery

2015-07-15 Thread EVDL Administrator via EV
On 15 Jul 2015 at 5:59, Willie2 via EV wrote: This one: http://www.rc-electronics-usa.com/meter-applications.html is slightly intriguing, but it looks like it may run demand current through 14 ga wire. I could probably use one per battery. I have one of those Watts Up meters. It works

Re: [EVDL] adding solar charging to 12 volt battery on LEAF

2015-07-15 Thread Jamie K via EV
As another data point, so far we haven't noticed any problems with the 12 volt battery in the 2013 LEAF that we bought about a year and a half ago. What model LEAF did you buy? S, SV or SL? What symptoms have you had? Cheers, -Jamie On 7/14/15 10:41 PM, harry henderson via EV wrote: the

Re: [EVDL] Bicycle battery

2015-07-15 Thread John Lussmyer via EV
On Wed Jul 15 03:59:18 PDT 2015 ev@lists.evdl.org said: sufficient current. This cart does not yet have an amphour counter. I've been using TBS meters but they are too expensive for this application. Does anyone have suggestions for cheap ah counters? I like this one: