Battery Vehicle Society

I had several of these blowouts on my Trojans T125 6v 240AH FLA batteries. The good news about Trojans is that they can put out 1000A. The bad news is that the terminals heat up pretty bad at 1000A even with good connections. (My new Costco GC-2's dont put out nearly the current, so there's less of ...

I'd like to share some experience with using a current sensor with a PIC ADC in an EV. I was using the Tamuara L06P400S05 (available thru digikey and mouser) which is similar to the one referenced earlier in this thread (http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&am...

Great work on this open source project, this seems like a nice solution I read thru the last year or so of messages, and didn’t find a succinct description of how the communications works, so I would like to summarize how I think the slaves talk to the master and then offer a concern, based on simil...

There is a new off-the-shelf Lithium BMS with a centralized architecture, with individual cell monitoring, high cell charge cutoff, low cell warning, temperature monitoiring. It also has a nice small display, and is fully configurable. Current monitor and data logging option too, so a complete packa...

More pictures of the battery pack. It has a PIC16C72A MAX 1414C A/d Ti bq2060A Power Management IC Lots of TPB9013 FETs Cells are not the ICR 18650 as advertized, but are a korean make with F1FHH2 on the the label. http://www.convertthefuture.com/images/DSC01949.JPG http://www.convertthefuture.com/i...

GregsGarage posted a link to some information about the upcoming Maxim 11068 multi-cell battery controller. I requested the info and have posted it here: http://www.convertthefuture.com/files/MAX11068_Rev_5_4_April_8_2008.pdf It looks like it supports 12 cells, under over voltage detection, and equa...