Sorry guys, forgot to update you like I said I would
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Well anyways alot of major changes over the summer. In short, for those who dont feel like reading a lot. I replaced the custom hand made battery boxes with a Falcon EV frame bag. Got a good upgrade for 12 4s turnigy hardcases. I just run 5s2P with them. 100v is too twitchy for me to care about, and it heats up the motor unnecessarily. After my 100 volt test I was melting handfuls of ice cubes on the side covers.
Now the updates and explanations and such.
I am a big fan of paralleling at the cell level when ever necessary, however I am not a big fan of soldering all of the balance wires. When I was making my order from epbuddy, they didn't have any 2-1 4s balance plugs. So I just went for the 1-1 balance plugs and did a ton of soldering. I first tinned all of the wires, that was the easy part. Then I had to do all of the soldering.... with two hands. Luckily I found two alligator clips in my tool box. Life is good. Especially when I was about to throw them away a couple nights before
. usually, I throw the item away then I realize I need it.
Sorry for the small photos.
After doing all of the soldering I heat shrunk all of the wires and made it into one giant wire.... sort of.
After that I just cycled all of the turnigy's to check if they would stay in balance. Low and behold, they all did. No duds from HK yet.
After the cycling I went for my first and probably only 100V run. One reason is the amount of space left in my bag and the second:
It looks like hell! Look at the ambilical cord of battery's and such..... No thank you
Also look at the Series plug. 6 anderson in total. Courtesy of Icecube56. If you dont want to crimp and such PM him, he will set you up with a great harness that works flawlessly. I was probably his favorite customer at one time or another for all the shorts I was making.
I quickly found out that a row of 6X2 turingy's will fit conveniently along the bottom tube of my bike with just a couple inches to spare. So that led to the creation of my master peice :wink:
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I first duct taped two hard cases side by side. Then I laid them out long ways, put the row of tunrgy's in between two peices of wood, duct taped them to the wood across the two battery's, and then long ways. This makes a ridged battery block that is easily removable from the frame bag. I then put the other four battery's standing up next to the rear shock. The end product looks rather professional if I do say so myself.
Took a picture of the bike while sitting for lunch at a park near work. There is nothing better then leaving where you work for a nice ride and a sandwich.