A friend here in Tucson bought a bunch of them he was going to use for
his conversion, then decided to use Lithium. He gave me one so I could
size it out for my conversion. After I thought about it, I realized that
they were just too high maintenance for me so I said no thanks.
John - I still have that one and if it would be helpful you can have it.
Let me know.
Rush Dougherty
TucsonEV
On 5/3/2025 9:56 PM, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
I know that Mike Phillips, then living in San Jose, did a US Electricar S10
conversion from its original 312V of lead acid to flooded NiCd cells. When
he was moving about 15 years ago, he sold that truck to a grower in SF
North Bay, so that the buyer could get a lower (EV) electric rate for his
business, but never drove the truck, it just sat in his yard.
About 7 years ago he started offering it for sale and after 3 more he and I
agreed on a price and I towed it back to South Bay, removed the NiCd and
installed a dual Leaf pack.
Just last week I sold all remaining cells and will be sending those in a
crate to the next owner!
Cor.
On Sat, May 3, 2025, 7:53 PM John Lussmyer via EV<[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/3/2025 6:09 PM, John Lussmyer via EV wrote:
I'm digging some old BB600's out of my shop archive to see if I can
still use them to run an old 36v Taylor Dunn cart.
https://www.casadelgato.com/BB600/BB600.html
I just did some digging through my history. We originally bought these
(surplus) in 2005.
All mine were destroyed in a shop fire in 2006.
The ones I have now were from someone else, who used them in a small
pickup truck. They eventually stopped using them and gave them to me.
(I don't know if he switched to other batteries, or the conversion had
an issue, or whatever...)
I think they've been in my shop for something like 15(?) years.
After being somewhat abused by the previous owner, and sitting for so
long, they are definitely in rough shape.
I'm sorting through them, finding ones that don't show signs of over
heated posts (melted plastic around them), and aren't bulged.
I think this cuts it down to about 1/2 the cells will be usable.
It's also interesting that the nickel plating on the copper busbars has
almost completely failed. What little is left is curled and flaking off.
A pack of 32 cells (1.2v nominal ea) should be a reasonable replacement
for 6, 6v golf cat batteries - voltage wise. Not sure if a single
string of BB600 will be able to handle the current needs of the cart.
If not, I should have enough to make 2 strings.
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