I wouldn't recommend using the Nissan Leaf busbars in pack locations that exceed 114 amps. The bars should be fine within the series strings, which is what I meant in my prior reply. The ends of each of the 5 parallel sets should be connected some other way.
I have heard of copper pipe being crushed flat, then drilled, to create suitable custom high amp busbars. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 21:35 Mr. Sharkey via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > stack several of them for the 5p17s pack > > While it looks like you have done the calculations on voltage drop > and heat production, and the values are acceptable, I'd question the > wisdom of trying to build a 5p pack using the Leaf busbars, mostly > because layering up multiple short busbars to parallel the modules > will result in a large number of junctions between the busbars, > resulting in even more resistance and a lot of clutter on the terminals. > > When I built up the 2p5s pack for my Electrak this spring, I went to > fleabay and bought some appropriately-sized copper stock, ran it > through the drill press and made custom-fit busbars that could span > four modules (paralleling two each and making the needed series > connection between the paralleled modules). > > The only purpose for the stock Leaf busbars was to tie the middle > terminals of the paralleled modules together. In my case, that was a > good application, but if you are tying five center terminals > together, I'd even make custom bars for that too, although they won't > need to be very big, as in a perfect world, there isn't going to be > very much current flowing in that part of the circuit. > > Photos of the Et conversion here: http://www.evalbum.com/79 > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200801/b6f52045/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
