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Old 12-24-2017, 11:27 PM   #6 (permalink)
puddleglum
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Originally Posted by jakobnev View Post
I built one of these. It's 14.8V 13Ah, and I connected it to the car through both filaments (in parallel) of an H4 headlight bulb.
Good idea. I thought about doing something like that as well, but the ebike packs are ready to go. Are you using the headlight bulb to cut back the voltage instead of a DC/DC converter? 16.8 volts charged is a little high.
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