Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 3 – Replacing the BMS in the LifePO4 bank
After pricing out decent cells it turned out to be cheaper to get a premade battery from...
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Wiring up Sooners DC: Part 2 – The New Schematic
So I actually got off my arse and made a (very) high level schematic which should save me at least...
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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Eight – Adding an additional switch to the discharge relay
A quick update here – just to add an addendum to the LifePO4 series. No-one who is following...
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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Seven – Installing the Inverter
Part of the reason I was installing a LifePO4 bank (aside to move them into the cabin/save weight...
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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Six – Wiring up the batteries and the Orion JR BMS
Now I had the mounting system, it was time to hook the lithium system up, including the LiFePO4...
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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Five – Old mount was terrible, remount time!
So as mentioned when I first figured out how to mount the batteries I wasn’t really happy...
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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Four – Top balancing the pack
Well, after pulling out all the old wiring and running the boat off the DC charger as seen in the...
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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Three – Removing the old batteries and installing the charger
Sorry this third update took a while, I was travelling for work a lot and then got some kind of...
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Lithium Batteries: Part Two – Mounting the cells (first pass)
Following on from the very high level design in part one, the next stage was to mount the 8 cells...
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Lithium Batteries: Part One – LiFePO4 design
Ok before I start I gotta give a huge NERD WARNING, as this stuff is probably going to be of not...
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