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They haven't been drilled and tapped yet. They like to keep the options open.
They haven't been drilled and tapped yet. They like to keep the options open.
No orders yet, but I hope to place the order for 100 Ah cells early next year. Since the cells will be delivered to Fremantle there will be some shipping costs to get them across to Brisbane, but we can cross that bridge when we get to it. I want to get the battery enclosures before committing to a cell order, although if in the end it doesn't fit, I'm sure there will be buyers.
Interesting - so would Matt's hack work then? Basically put a second shunt in parallel with the existing one so it only measures half the current being drawn from the pack?
If you're interest in buying cells in this order you can jump in - saves a couple of hundred in shipping and hassles, but there will be more. Mind you the exchange rate is awful.
Perhaps the reason it says to send the reset command until it reads 45Ah is because that is the correct value for a new pack, not because you could not keep going and set it higher? Elsewhere in this thread I thought someone found that the maximum value is 60Ah, in which case, with a 60Ah aftermarket pack, could you not keep going sending the reset command until it got to the maximum permitted value of 60Ah?
Yep, from another thread:Peter C in Canberra wrote: ↑Wed, 29 May 2019, 14:02Perhaps the reason it says to send the reset command until it reads 45Ah is because that is the correct value for a new pack, not because you could not keep going and set it higher? Elsewhere in this thread I thought someone found that the maximum value is 60Ah, in which case, with a 60Ah aftermarket pack, could you not keep going sending the reset command until it got to the maximum permitted value of 60Ah?
For 150 km range ten grand would be worthwhile . The next question is I suppose harder to quantify: how long do these cells last, resp. what deterioration can reasonably be expected ?
I thought that the 2012s that came to Australia were all made before the change to LEV50N and so have LEV50 like the 2010 model.nuggetgalore wrote: ↑Sat, 01 Jun 2019, 19:30Just as a reference, my LEV50s are now approx 9 years old and the capacity is down to ~69%. I am fairly sure that the 2 year younger LEV50N cells will have more capacity in two years time (comparing notes with several 2012 model owners).
That is an interesting comment.I thought that the 2012s that came to Australia were all made before the change to LEV50N and so have LEV50 like the 2010 model.
Interesting. It would not surprise me if there were incremental improvements made in later production runs of the battery (or any other product) that did not coincide with a change of name for the product.nuggetgalore wrote: ↑Sun, 02 Jun 2019, 06:48 For one reason or another,I assumed (guilty as charged), that the 2012 units have the LEV50N cells. ... I have checked these batteries over more than two years, the 2012 show higher capacity now than the 2010 two years ago (when they were the same age as the 2012 are now).
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