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Originally Posted by jakobnev
I ran it yesterday in the car and in daytime i only have a 2.5A draw. That's 0.28C at nominal capacity, 0.57C at 50% and 1.1C at 25% - seems safe enough.
As for the batteries being of different types: Each parallel quadruplet consists of one purple, one blue and two green cells, so that evens things out. And the purpose of those little white wires is to be able to keep check on the voltage of each quadruplet.
As for explosions, the whole pack at nominal capacity is only 15grams TNT equivalent..  |
Here is an explosion that happened from 8x 18650's:
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Here is another explosion that happened from just 2x 18650.
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Don't underestimate what kind of damage Li-ion's can do.
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Also I'm a little confused how you are actually connecting this to your car? Are you also using the Lead Acid battery? What part of your car is this actually powering that your only seeing 2.5A draw? What happens when you turn on the lights or use the horn?