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02-15-2023, 09:39 PM | #42 |
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02-15-2023, 09:46 PM | #43 |
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03-07-2023, 10:45 PM | #44 |
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I'm wondering why I cannot go to a wrecking yard and get a battery from a wrecked out vehicle.
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03-07-2023, 11:00 PM | #45 |
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You might be able too but chances are they are already removed and sold online by the wrecking yard plus not too many electric vehicles in wrecking yards yet..
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03-08-2023, 03:04 AM | #46 |
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I would think the lithium battery would be long gone by the time it gets to the average wrecking yard. Safety being the main reason. 400ish volts DC can sting.
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03-08-2023, 06:49 AM | #47 |
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A few years back I called a local salvage yard and ask about Leaf batteries. The "guy" on the other end of the line thought I was speaking in Latin.
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03-08-2023, 09:00 AM | #48 |
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EV batteries are in high demand and they are the first things that go off of a crashed EV. You used to be able to find Leaf packs in salvage yards but good luck these days! I was lucky to find a newer leaf module set on Ebay three years ago for my second cart. These were two modules of 7S that together made a nice 14S pack. The original Leaf had a battery made up of 48 modules - each 2S - but newer Leafs have a much less usable set of modules. Most other EV's are similar - they taylor their cell modules to fit the application which makes them much more difficult to separate into nice 14S packs for golf cart use.
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03-08-2023, 09:08 AM | #49 | |
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03-08-2023, 09:18 AM | #50 |
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I will keep my batteries the same cell count so that I can share my charger between my two carts. (And my home build BMS is designed for 14 cells) I may mod my design for 16 cells in the future but I expect my Leaf packs to last a while.
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