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Old 09-19-2012, 12:11 PM   #74 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daox View Post
Great to hear. I do think an Ah counter is an absolutely necessary item to have with a minimal BMS system like that. Unfortunately, voltage can't be used as a low SOC indicator with lithium which really makes things more complicated.
Yeah, I've had a lot of experience with lithium over the past year, voltage can really only be used to High/Low cut-offs, not SoC.

To start I will be using the AH counter in the Zilla, since I am hooking up my laptop to log my drives I might has well use the AH counter in the ZillaConfig tool.

I just got my batteries in, but I don't have enough wire to hook up the MiniBMS so I am going off to work to get loads of it and to browse the MiniBMS documentation to make sure I know every little bit of it.

It looks like I am on track for a Friday test drive, I expect the BMS installation to take about 2 hours, which I may do most of it tomorrow night.
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