Thursday, September 6, 2012

RE: [Electric Boats] battery costs

 

Donald

 

They can be bought as one or in smaller capacities – you can mix n match – just wondering if this is getting price competitive with PB.

 

That isn't rhetoric just an offer that came over my desk from a battery company

 

The 24v50ah was just a convenient spec. The capacity and voltage of each battery can be arranged as you wish.

 

Re the physics lesson it doesn't take account of the actual C rates or capacity available from Li vs Pb.  IME a comparable lithium cell has far more continuous output than a lead or nickel cell. The harder they are pushed the further ahead they go.  And in low C apps like displacement boats they can go to 90% discharge if only because they are  balanced during charging unlike lead and nickel which rely on a degree of over and under charge to get a balance and have more variation across cells.      

 

Given I have seen it – the battery dealers here should have too and the product should be widespread within the next 12 months …..

 

Andrew

 

 

From: electricboats@yahoogroups.com [mailto:electricboats@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of donald bland
Sent: Thursday, 6 September 2012 3:34 PM
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] battery costs

 

 

Andrew, are you talkin 1 $800 24vdc battery, or what?
I am , for my vessel, thinkin , 8pcs , individual 6v batteries , $ 300 each , batteries of 6vdc
strapped down into under the saloon floor the keel , benefiting balance, and wired into arrays accordingly.
so to answer you retoric question , sounds great , cept , I think I need 48 v , for a E.Y. system as I understand it .
so . . . we have Mike , and George , whom we can , thankfully ask , for a wee physics lesson then mates!
perhaps maybe this other fellow, Aaron Vivian , will sign in as he said he would and further enlighten our little minds , eh ?
weeel , I must indulge my better half in going out to dinner , so we must resume this convo  on the morrow , eh mates?

 

 


From: Andrew Gilchrist <andrew@fastelectrics.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, September 5, 2012 8:40:32 PM
Subject: [Electric Boats] battery costs

 

How does and $800  24v 50ah LiFe sound? Keep in mind that similar to at least a 100ah lead acid battery

 

These should not be too far away  

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