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This blog includes personal things of interest including electric vehicle conversion. I have documented the conversion of a petrol (gas) powered vehicle to Electric. http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/1149.
The blog now documents the conversion of a BMW E30 to electric.
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Mental Note, Check the battery terminals!
It would seem that I did not have one of the battery terminals tight enough. The battery still tests OK, but I have replaced it and the balance circuit with some spares.
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Mal, hopefully, this will not repeat gain, do you think it was because of road vibration or just a mistake during install phase?
Btw. what is your current charge cyclus on these batteries, still in the early brake-in 20-50 charges area?
I am not sure why the terminal overheated as I am careful about tightening them It may be that I forgot to tighten it properly or maybe there was a bit if swarf or a jager preventing the strap from connecting to the terminal properly.
I use spring washers to prevent the screws from vibrating loose.
I am probably up to about 15 cycles. Average about 1 trip per day of between 5km and 20km, and 35km once per week.
2 comments:
Mal, hopefully, this will not repeat gain, do you think it was because of road vibration or just a mistake during install phase?
Btw. what is your current charge cyclus on these batteries, still in the early brake-in 20-50 charges area?
I am not sure why the terminal overheated as I am careful about tightening them It may be that I forgot to tighten it properly or maybe there was a bit if swarf or a jager preventing the strap from connecting to the terminal properly.
I use spring washers to prevent the screws from vibrating loose.
I am probably up to about 15 cycles. Average about 1 trip per day of between 5km and 20km, and 35km once per week.
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