Re: [Electric Boats] Built my 24v 40ah LIFEPO4 battery

Did you get the Thunder-sky or Sky-energy batteries?

On Aug 20, 2009, at 8:21 PM, cwitzgal wrote:

> HI all;
>
> I finally received my LIFEPO4 cells form evcomponents last Friday. I
> got
> busy this past weekend putting my pack together. Thi is to power a
> Torqueedo.
>
> If is eight 40ah cells in series, mounted in an Orange waterproof
> ammo style
> box I bought from West Marine. I'll try and get some pics up soon.
> The only
> glitch is that the power supply I got from ecitypower.com is getting
> really
> hot, and the fan is not coming on. It is a 24v 15a power supply, so
> there is
> some current flowing there! I have sent a note to them, and I await
> a reply.
> Just how hot should these things get? It is in an aluminum
> enclosure, with
> an internal fan that vents to the outside (but is not running). I
> unplugged
> it when it started to smell of burn-in.
>
> Chris
>
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