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Old 11-28-2012, 11:06 PM   #21
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Default BMS/VMI by Lifetech

This is worth looking into...
Lithium Batteries Australia - Battery Management and Diagnostics
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Old 11-29-2012, 12:21 AM   #22
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Likewise, there is a lot of information at the EV Power site: EV Power - Australian Electric Vehicle Specialists — EV Power - Australian Electric Vehicles sells Electric Bikes and car conversions, Electric Bicycles, Electric Vehicles, Conversion Kits.
The challenge for me now is to reconcile the varying views and come up with a workable, reliable and affordable system. EV Power offer some neat stuff, but they are quite expensive and the rather nice battery packs won't fit our available space
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So, after all that discussion, I chickened out and went conventional. Just ordered 3 Trojan Deep Cycle SCS225 which should give almost 400 Ah for house batteries, and a fairly standard Century starting battery. Total cost is around $1000 or more less than the Li option, so maybe that will be for next time when there is a bit more consensus that it is a good idea.
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Well, I think I might have done the same thing at this point. I'm still a year away from replacing mine I think.

Getting ready to do an outback journey for two weeks.
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Default Overcharging batteries eyed in Boeing 787 mishaps

Does this sound familiar? And you know for sure they had the most advanced BMS in place and yet a thermal event still resulted.

Overcharging batteries eyed in Boeing 787 mishaps - Houston Chronicle
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Default Lithium Cobalt Dioxide!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only that, the batteries are LCO chemistry...the most unstable of all the Li-Ion chemistries. How in the heck did the FAA allow this to happen?

Just a few years ago, the FAA outlawed laptops batteries for that very reason!
http://www.gsyuasa-lp.com/aviation-lithium-batteries
http://gsyuasa-lp.com/SpecSheets/LVP65-MSDS.pdf
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Well, all that leaves me feeling better about my new set of Trojans!
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No doubt...I'll most like stick with Trojans as well.
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