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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

Not at all. I apologize, apparently new my anti-smartass counter-snark meds I've started on aren't working that well. (That's a joke. :D) Anyway,...

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teddillard replied to a thread Acronyms and their meanings in Everything Else

...gimmee some time to do some weeding and consolidation... then buy my book! lol

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teddillard replied to a thread Acronyms and their meanings in Everything Else

Some more acronyms, some of them a little more, um, erudite. Is erudite the word? Sorry the formatting is a little wonky but you can see the...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

I'm sorry I can't reference the people I talked to about the new CALB gray cells, but I just can't find the comments. I think it was in some other...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

FWIW here is his post about testing the gray packs: http://blog.evtv.me/2012/07/calb-ca180fi-new-lifepo4-cell/

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

He wasn't asking about other LiFePO4. Is it OH 4 or zero 4? I never know. He was asking about CALB, and I've been told, again by people who use...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

I was told by several guys who use them not to run them on the bike and pull more than 150 - 200a, and not to pull that for more than a few seconds. ...

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teddillard replied to a thread Acronyms and their meanings in Everything Else

Here's a start, from EV Source. EV acronyms: AC = Air Conditioning AGM = Absorbed Glass Mat AC = Alternating Current BEV = Battery Electric...

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teddillard replied to a thread Acronyms and their meanings in Everything Else

I do hereby (IDH) am collecting and translating EV (electric vehicle) acronyms. DKW (don't know why) I didn't think of it before. :D Stay...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

The thread got buried under a flurry of activity, a shame since it's a really great question that I think a lot of people have. So I'm bumping it. ...

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teddillard replied to a thread Acronyms and their meanings in Everything Else

HA! Look, I'm hard at work doing what I hope is a more-or-less final version of the book. If you have particular acronyms you're looking at, list...

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ElMotoMaster replied to a thread Documentary "Charge" in Theaters Nationwide May 20 in Entertainment

I know it is playing today and Thurs, May 23 at 7pm, and the following Sat and Sun at 2pm at the Digital Gym 2921 El Cajon Blvd. San Diego, CA 92104

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ElMotoMaster started a thread Documentary "Charge" in Theaters Nationwide May 20 in Entertainment

Docurama Premieres the Exhilarating Documentary "Charge" in Theaters Nationwide May 20 From the director of Faster and Fastest (Mark Neale), and...

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teddillard replied to a thread Battery pack voltage sag in Other Parts

Hell. I could do that too. One more cell would get my voltage up to the same range I was running the RC lipo at... d'OH! (THANKS!)

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

CALBS - both new and older AFAIK are recommended to be used at no more than 150-200amps. I was told that the CALBS I have and other LFP cells were...

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teddillard replied to a thread RC li-po - what's the verdict? in Batteries

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teddillard replied to a thread Battery pack voltage sag in Other Parts

Thanks! Yes, I have the blue 40ah CALBs and am looking to fix the same problem. Right now what I'm working on is a parallel "nitrous pack" of...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

So, yeah. A 4kwh (8ah Headway) pack that pulls 600+ amps vs my 3kwh (CALB) pack that pulls max of maybe 200 amps. I'd say that's a significant...

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teddillard replied to a thread RC li-po - what's the verdict? in Batteries

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teddillard replied to a thread A New Bike on the Block... in Tell us about YOUR Project

Hey Allen. Stay safe man. Say the word if there's anything we can do.

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

Really? I have always thought they were capable of much higher discharge rates than other LiFePO4 stuff. Wasn't there a test that showed them as...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

I get that the CALBS I'm running are undersized, but the 15ah Turnigy pack I was running are more than adequate in terms of feeding amps. I felt...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

By the way... one of the things that puts me off A123 is simply not trusting the product. There's no real legit source that I know of, who can...

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teddillard replied to a thread Battery pack voltage sag in Other Parts

Did you ever do this? I've been considering exactly that...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

To restate: my point was simply, first, there's a big difference between how CALBs are going to perform and how RC lipo performs. (As far as what...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

I do find it kind of funny how, out of all the decisions, it seems like the battery choice brings out the most, eh, strident opinions. Maybe it's...

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

Who gives a crap about cycle life if you have to run slow? (OK yeah. I've been drinking. OK. a lot. lol. But seriously...) edit: At a...

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teddillard replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

NICE! Today I went for a little ride: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2XC8ZqWXbDA" frameborder="0"...

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teddillard replied to a thread Today, I ... in Tell us about YOUR Project

...last night I saw a Tesla S in the wild. On a curvy road. Honkin on BoBo. It was awesome.

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teddillard replied to a thread Choosing my Battery Pack! in Batteries

yeah... To be fair, my lipo failed because I kind of ****ed them up. And in full disclosure, I'd go with the hardcase again, but the CALB were...

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