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Old 06-29-2013, 08:08 PM   #46 (permalink)
Ryland
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Originally Posted by TurnNBurn View Post
Yup! I think I'm going with lithium batteries. I may go with those earlier mentioned prismatic cells. 20ah, though. I was hoping for at least 40ah.
Make sure that they can handle the discharge rate you are going to give them, I almost bought some 20ah cells then realized that they could only handle a 100amp discharge and at crusing speed my motorcycle draws 120 amps and can draw up to 300+ amps, that is why I like my current batteries so much, they can handle 1,000 amp discharge for a short time and a sustained 300amps, so many times above what a motorcycle would draw.
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