First trip on LiFePo4

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Evan Tuer

First trip on LiFePo4

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I converted my Peugeot 106 - http://www.evalbum.com/2406 - to use
180AH SE cells (which arrived back in August!).  The first trip out on
the road, today, had to be to the MOT centre for the annual safety
check - it had expired while the car was out of service.

The car benefits from the reduced weight and greater available power
(over the wrecked Saft nicads that were in it) and I was able to run
it "wide open" on the motorway at around 110A, with the cells giving a
solid 3.2V.  I hope that with a bit of aerodynamic improvement to get
that down to 90A, just 0.5C.  62MPH if you're wondering.

Used about 80AH for the 45 mile round trip, can I hope for 100 miles?!

Anyway it failed the MOT due to a badly split tyre so I can't play any
more until it goes back on Monday...

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Roger Heuckeroth

Re: First trip on LiFePo4

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Are you still at 120V with the new batts?

On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Evan Tuer wrote:

> I converted my Peugeot 106 - http://www.evalbum.com/2406 - to use
> 180AH SE cells (which arrived back in August!).  The first trip out on
> the road, today, had to be to the MOT centre for the annual safety
> check - it had expired while the car was out of service.
>
> The car benefits from the reduced weight and greater available power
> (over the wrecked Saft nicads that were in it) and I was able to run
> it "wide open" on the motorway at around 110A, with the cells giving a
> solid 3.2V.  I hope that with a bit of aerodynamic improvement to get
> that down to 90A, just 0.5C.  62MPH if you're wondering.
>
> Used about 80AH for the 45 mile round trip, can I hope for 100 miles?!
>
> Anyway it failed the MOT due to a badly split tyre so I can't play any
> more until it goes back on Monday...
>
> _______________________________________________
> General EVDL support: http://evdl.org/help/
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