ElectricGod
10 MW
My old LIPO packs are dieing. They are made of 8000mah cells, but I'm getting more like 2000mah from them now. I load tested all my battery packs over the weekend to see what state things were in. The LIPO packs proved to be less than stellar. I recently bought 13 10,000mah LIPO packs. I didn't have a plan for them, just found them for super cheap so I bought all I could afford. Anyway, yesterday I was stacking the LIPO packs in the battery bay and found that 10 of them were a perfect fit. Anyway, tonight I clamped them together nice and tight and then wrapped them in Kapton tape. Hopefully that will minimize any swelling that might happen. I don't have 4S balance cables yet, but they are on order so I should see them any day now and then I can connect up the packs to my charging system via a BMS. I removed the XT90 connectors on the packs and soldered the wires together to make up two 20S packs. My old LIPO packs will last a little while longer.
This is the adapter cable for the battery cables. Since it's two sets of 20S packs, the two XT90 cables come off the battery packs and then on the negative side combine together in a 6mm bullet to connect to the BMS. Then coming out of the BMS and going into the XT60's is to connect into the 4 XT60s I have been using in the battery bay since I first built the scooter. I'm just reusing what's already in place. Probably 4 XT60s is overkill, but at a possible maximum load of 200 amps, well you can't have too much capability.
This is the adapter cable for the battery cables. Since it's two sets of 20S packs, the two XT90 cables come off the battery packs and then on the negative side combine together in a 6mm bullet to connect to the BMS. Then coming out of the BMS and going into the XT60's is to connect into the 4 XT60s I have been using in the battery bay since I first built the scooter. I'm just reusing what's already in place. Probably 4 XT60s is overkill, but at a possible maximum load of 200 amps, well you can't have too much capability.