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Originally Posted by MechanicalRandall
Any update on your battery pack? I have had to replace the packs on my insight twice, once under warranty and once not. (I tend to abuse the batteries in the worst ways)
Now that the car is out of warranty I was thinking of making the next swap with lithium ions or even LiPo.
Are you still at UCLA? What are you studying? I am graduating UCI in a few weeks!
Our EE's on the racecar team built a pretty stout electric car using LiPos and they seem to think making the swap in my Insight would be doable, but I want to find out as much as I can about the electronics I will need to interface with first, such as battery nannying, interface with the charging system, etc?
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Sorry about the delay in responding, finals sucked and I had a sister graduate so been busy busy. Computer Science and Engineering. BTW congrats on graduating! What'd you major in?
I think the main hang up is the BCM isn't designed for the feeding and care of a LiFo battery pack. And like Jamesqf said, the BCM would have to be circumvented or something to allow for this, as far as I've read. What do you do to your pack?