Battery Vehicle Society

Thanks, part of the thesis will be to see how it might work and what is going to be the best way forward to using renewables, storage and the grid together. Well, if I can be forgiven for mentioning companies who are working on the subject, it might be worth your while doing some research on ITM. h...

Defo need some sort of reg on this beasty panel, any suggestions , really dont like the idea of forking out for a 60+ quid reg that shops flog, there cant be much inside these little boxes apart from a few components ? ChrisB There is now. What use to be done was that a dump load was applied to reg...

This is all off the plot of the thread now so sorry folks back to battery powered houses ........... Well returning to the subject, I visited http://www.homepower.com and it would seem that their lead article is free to download. It details Mr Blank's (sorry it is his name) home PV system. It would...

There's talk all the time of PVs coming down in price in just the same way as EVs having 300 mile ranges but do we actually see these make it to market? Not quite. The talk of oversupply is usually all in the financial press. You know the likes of the FT or "Shares" or the Investors Chron...

Whilst I too am very keen to do something like this at home and I am aware of a number of folk who have home generated electricity has anyone got a system that powers anything much more than a portable telly and a car headlight ? Many people have, though not I grant you many that live in the UK. I ...

either lots of them basically one at each device or you'd need to install very big wires. Basically it's not practical I beg to differ about its practicality. It's been done many times by many people. You don't start with the batteries though. You start by evaluating your needs and making energy sa...

nino500 wrote:Might be an idea to discuss safe working practice while we're here.

I'd also add to your list that you should keep a co2 fire extinguisher handy.
Use safety specs, if working with Pba batteries have a solution of bicarb handy and make sure that you have good ventilation.

mainly because AC is a killer esp at high volts - and i dont like messing around with it I'm no engineer but I'm pretty sure that DC is a whole lot more dangerous than AC at high voltages.... To be honest at the sorts of power required to get an EV to work the power system IS dangerous. More than 5...

Cheers guys, confirmation enough for me. Paul, when you say leisure batteries, I assume you mean golf cart type packs? Usually it's taken to mean Caravan batteries, or in some cases light boat batteries. Semi deep cycle, but with expectations of some high current usage. I myself would include golf ...

Just thought that I'd add that I read a bit about it in "The Engineer", here is a link.

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/3 ... wheels.htm