Back home again (bought the batteries on holiday, went to work and tend&mend my house a few days, then joined my family again for the last part) and finally some time to check on what I dragged in.
The cells. 16 here, the other 20 in the unopened box below. Couldn't find my Fluke while in the flurry of reorganizing the house and domesticating the kids so not tested anything yet.
Leads with Anderson connectors, one pair for each 36V battery pack.
Copper nuts, connecting plates (to be stacked double for lower resistance), crash resistant steel boxes with padding and lining, charge connectors with a lid.
The boxes were designed for 16 of these cells but there's little room for the BMS board then. I needed a divisor of 36 so 12 was logical, and there is room to spare now.
3 '36 Volt' (43.8) 3 Ampere chargers should be able to fully charge them in 4 hours.
Still waiting for the BMSes to arrive, plus I would like some additional googads as a twin line kill switch, LED volt meters on the car and each battery and some proper wire protection.
Meanwhile I'm to design a way to safely lodge those 3 boxes in the rear void behind the IMA battery. I might just make a couple of plates, one high, one low, covering the whole with 3 box sized holes so they stay put. Preferably in alu sheeting, pop rivets on the seams etc. so it kinda looks like a commercial off-the-shelf drop-in installation.
Oh, I really need something like a company logo; Cow&Chicken's pantless guy getting hit by a lightning bolt in the pantless part or so, but done in a subtle way, of course.
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