Saturday, July 3, 2010

new approach to hybrid battery test.

I tried co mingling sla and nimh in the same pack one before and burned up the nimh batteries. I had a thought that maybe the problem was that I had the nimh way too low and the sla pack just pushed more amps through it that it could stand. So today I setup a 30v pack. two 12v sla batteries and a 5v with about 50ah rating. I ran it a mile and it didn't seem to heat up at all. I'm not sure just yet what all it will do, so I have several more tries with this configuration. Then I may try a 36pack with 12v of it being nimh.I would like to see just how far I can take this.

I did try running the bike on the pure nimh pack I have and it runs like crap. I'm not exactly sure why but it just runs awful.

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