Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-30 Thread Lee Hart via EV
David Nelson via EV wrote: Lee, is your data available somewhere? Much of my data is in the form of personal notebooks, so it's very time-consuming to put online. Though I have typed in and posted a *lot* of data on the EVDL over the years (probably more than anyone else). When I do tests

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-30 Thread Lee Hart via EV
Bill Dube via EV wrote: The peer reviewed literature agrees with the scientific tests that Lee Hart tried for himself... Do you understand the difference between anecdotal evidence and scientific test? When you say I measured the voltage and it was close to the same that is anecdotal evidence.

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-30 Thread Jan Steinman via EV
From: Lee Hart via EV ev@lists.evdl.org David Nelson via EV wrote: Lee, is your data available somewhere? Much of my data is in the form of personal notebooks, so it's very time-consuming to put online. I suggest scanning and then converting to an e-book format, which generally OCRs

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread Paul Dove via EV
There were no parasitic loads on any particular cells. They were powered by the whole string in Hardys test. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 27, 2015, at 10:34 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: On 27 Jun 2015 at 15:29, Peter Gabrielsson via EV wrote: He proved that

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread Bill Dube via EV
Watched the test on the video. In the end, he states Four of the cells were toast. at the end of the test. These were the cells that were _not_ protected by the BMS. This looks like the BMS did its job quite well and the test showed what was expected. I guess you can interpret results in

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread EVDL Administrator via EV
I find these chatty video presentations annoying. I'd rather read. But I sat through this one, and got a few bits of useful info out of it. 1. You need a BMS that properly prevents over-discharge. Hardy murdered six 2000-cycle Headway LiFePO4 cells in 226 cycles (~11% of rated life) because

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread EVDL Administrator via EV
PS -- here's an interesting real-world experience with cell balance. http://ka7oei.blogspot.com/2013/05/lithium-iron-phosphate-lifepo4.html David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = =

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread Bill Dube via EV
Read back a a few days. Lee Hart explained the process entirely in an earlier post on this . You just had to read his post on the subject. You charge them, let them sit for x number of days, then discharge them to see how many amp-hours remain, then you charge them up again to see what their

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread Paul Dove via EV
Bill, By looking at his graph it looked like they all failed but two. Cells 1$ 2. The shunt balances were on 5 through 8. Those four failed first based on his graph. johns conclusion stated that he could see no advantage to balancing cells since the balanced ones stayed no closer in voltage

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread David Nelson via EV
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Bill Dube via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: There were folks right here on this list that performed a _scientific_ test. They cycled cells to find their capacity, charged the cells fully, then placed them in storage. After extended time on the shelf, they tested

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-28 Thread jerry freedomev via EV
.  And it doesn't seem needed for me.   Jerry Dycus From: EVDL Administrator via EV ev@lists.evdl.org To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List ev@lists.evdl.org Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you

[EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-27 Thread David Nelson via EV
I have a question about the self-discharge data Cor (below) and Lee has listed and/or referred to in various posts on the EVDL and more recently referred to in the various self-discharge threads. On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Cor van de Water via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: I have shared that

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-27 Thread Rush Dougherty via EV
...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Peter Gabrielsson via EV Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 3:30 PM To: Paul Dove; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation? He proved that putting parasitic loads on some cells in a series string

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-27 Thread Paul Dove via EV
Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation? He proved that putting parasitic loads on some cells in a series string vill cause the string to go out of balance. Nothing else. On Jun 27, 2015 1:37 PM, Paul Dove via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-27 Thread Paul Dove via EV
https://www.youtube.com/user/jlghardy/videos John Hardy's YouTube channel is extremely interesting (here) he test some of the theories out there about li ion batteries and the effect of a BMS. In the video battery test 2 he demonstrates that a cell balancer actually damages the cells. Sent

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-27 Thread Peter Gabrielsson via EV
He proved that putting parasitic loads on some cells in a series string vill cause the string to go out of balance. Nothing else. On Jun 27, 2015 1:37 PM, Paul Dove via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote: https://www.youtube.com/user/jlghardy/videos John Hardy's YouTube channel is extremely

Re: [EVDL] Good data or bad? How do you know? Or is it the interpretation?

2015-06-27 Thread EVDL Administrator via EV
On 27 Jun 2015 at 15:29, Peter Gabrielsson via EV wrote: He proved that putting parasitic loads on some cells in a series string vill cause the string to go out of balance. That's what you'd expect, no? I see this less-than-ideal behavior in my Ping batteries, which are fitted with an