Thursday, January 14, 2010

Charger Arrives

I received the charger. It's an Elcon 2KW charger with profile for 45 off Sky Energy cells.

The vacuum pump also arrived along with fuses, contactors, cable etc.

Tomorrow I am getting a steel fabricator in to measure up for battery boxes and motor mount.

I just got confirmation form the certification engineer that I don't need to use a big red switch. The new version of NCOP14 allows for isolation of the battery via 2 contactors operated from the ignition switch.

Parts have also arrived for my battery management system. It is a processor based system using a PIC chip for each cell, mounted externally from the cells, 16 per board. The master does coulomb counting and shows SOC for the pack and remaining distance to travel.

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