Hi all -
Thanks to the generosity of a fellow EV driver, Project ForkenSwift is
no longer driving on worn out, grossly mismatched, bulging, leaking, 6v
floor sweeper floodies (!) that the local forklift company was supplying
us for free to get the car running.
Instead, this summer we received a collection of used 3 & 4 year old
Exide floodies out of a Ford Ranger EV (
http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/600 ) and a VW Jetta EV.
My question revolves around the fact that we were given *twenty*
batteries. (And he wouldn't even let us pay for them - not even the
equivalent refund he would have gotten from the recycler! Nice guy!)
Considering the "beer budget-ness" of the 48v ForkenSwift, we'd like to
stretch the usefulness of these batts to the maximum. But until now,
we've just been running what we were told were the "best" 8 batts in the
(48v) car, and the rest have been sitting in a shed (charged once in
July, but not maintained since that last charge).
Should we be rotating all the batteries through the pack? One at a
time? Should we assign batts to 2 packs and swap packs all at once?
How often? What would you do? Any advice is welcome.
thanks-
Darin
Project ForkenSwift
http://www.evalbum.com/1146
http://forkenswift.com
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