Friday, December 20, 2013

The battery pack




So I ordered 20 zippy batteries ("bricks"), and plan to hook them up in a 24s5p pattern.
Each battery is 6s (i.e. 6 cells already hooked in series) to begin with, so I'm gonna make a serial connection between groups of 4 batteries, leaving us with 20/4 = 5 higher voltage batteries. Those I'm gonna connect in parallel, leaving us with a high voltage & high capacity battery. 100v 15Ah = 1332Wh to be exact.



Another schematic demonstrating how the pack is actually wired with one big connector for the controller. This is a serial wiring:



And for the charger, which is PowerLab 6 capable of charging up to 6 cells as its name suggest, we'll parallel all 20 zippies:



Now, that's a looooooot of power. That's enough to carry me 53Kph for 1 hour, or 70Kph for a little less than 1/2 hour (that's the plan anyways).
With a charge time of slightly more than 1 hour, we have acquired quite decent mobility.

I chose the Lithium-Polymer chemistry because it explodes and goes out in flames if treated wrong stocks so much power for such a low weight & price. Please read all you can about LiPo before getting into the business.

All 20 zippy's weigh ~9.5Kg.


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