Not much happening on the car, touching up the 12 volt battery occasionally.
This spring i measured all the cells after my mishap of discharge, I had charged them to about 80% and let them sit all winter. I found cell 28 was discharged but all the rest were 3.33v.
So it appears I have lost two cells from the discharge accident, and I have not done capacity testing, I had found some new old stock cells and bought a few so I will replace my bad cells.
Currently I am on the fence about keeping, selling, or parting the car as I have far too many projects in the mix and work is taking a lot of time as well
Jerry,
ReplyDeleteThe car looks so good and you are so close; Don't give up! I know how you feel as I have gone through the same thing myself but have always bounced back and got the build going again. I am able to drive the car around the house and can get to the grocery and hardware stores in it but I still need to get the other two modules mounted to be able to drive it to work. I have been messing with getting the charger to shut off the last couple of months but have a plan to just shut the charge down externally.
Randy
Jerry,
ReplyDeleteThe car looks so good and you are so close; Don't give up! I know how you feel as I have gone through the same thing myself but have always bounced back and got the build going again. I am able to drive the car around the house and can get to the grocery and hardware stores in it but I still need to get the other two modules mounted to be able to drive it to work. I have been messing with getting the charger to shut off the last couple of months but have a plan to just shut the charge down externally.
Randy
Randy,
DeleteI know it would be a loss to try to get rid of it, have a friend who cannot sell his conversion. I have been driving my modified Vectrix to the store and just for fun, and now it has issue with the new battery, it just never ends.
I use a company vehicle daily so my cars and bikes get little use. I may hang on to it and upgrade the batteries at some point, it is a blast to drive!
On your charger issue, you could use the relay in the WHmeter for a voltage shutdown, but not sure how much faith I would put in the inexpensive meter to protect the battery. I was going to use it as a backup shutdown on my car.
Your Fiero is coming along, looks good!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you were still selling your Evnetics Soliton One?
You can reach me at neilkaran.rawal15@gmail.com
Thanks,
Neil