thermal insulation
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:58 pm
There were many good comments about heaters earlier this year, but I can't find anything about thermal insulation. I want to re-build the battery box in the bonnet of our old Fiesta EV. This is a strange-shaped wooden box with warming wires underneath the cells. My wooden box is too bulky and awkward. The neatest way would be to re-arrange five of the TS 200 Ah cells in a pack. But then to fit the pack into the available space I need some thin thermal insulation at each end of the pack:- I would need 2 thermal insulation pieces each about 180 mm wide x 260 mm high, preferably a maximum of 10 mm thick. I have lots of sheets of rigid white expanded plastic and lots of plastic sponge, all saved from old packing crates etc.; but is there anything better than these that I can buy? Alan