Well, 1. you read the graph wrong, its the 25A line that crosses there, the 20A line goes to 1750mahWhat I said is, "so maybe 1Ah of useable battery", which is confirmed by the graph. The 20A line crosses the 3.1v cut-off at 1.125Ah. That's under ideal lab conditions and it's one cell. When you have 13, they'd all have to be perfectly balanced to get that, which is never going to happen. In fact, I've changed my mind now. I'd say that you'll be lucky to get 1 amp hour out of it.
The motor will be pulling the maximum 20A nearly all the time, which means 3 minutes use!
Relevant info, thanxRecumbent, no throttle bbs01 set to 15a and fully legal.
It runs at 16-20 mph on the flat. So no battery use normally,only up hill.
I'll leave you a link to a test of those cells, about 2200mah @5A with 3.1V cutoff, pretty good for the price if you ask me. as for bms, a cheap one is easy to find, the hard part is finding a cheap good one..I need a cheap bms for this battery,the motor controller is 25a :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ebike-Pedelec-Akku-17400mAh-36V-LiNiMnCoO2-NCR18650PF-Li-Ion-10S6P-/192058882946?hash=item2cb799fb82:g:zQgAAOSw5cNYWlm1
Anyone have a link to one I can use ?
Thanks for the link,but I didn find a bms for LiNiMnCoO2,Dont know much about batteries so I need a direct link
True, if you run them down to 2.5V, In 1boris's setup with a 10s6p setup @25A they'll run closer to 5A and probably cutoff closer to 3V?the capacity is based on a discharge rate of 1 amp and get 3400 on all the new cells i buy if i up the amps then it will not last as long as it is in series i have the voltage no capacity
Yea, You posted a specsheet and stated that @1A you get 3400mah, I looked at you specsheet and discovered you only get 3400mah if you run them down to 2.5v, if you do cutoff at 3v you get almost 3000mah.you dont run them down to 2.5v you want to cut them off at 3.5v as over that they fall off a cliff voltage wise anyway.
That Volcano is a fantastic bit of kit and worth every penny IMO! Tried my mates and did a henry in a massive black bin liner. I don't think anyone said a word for the next three hours. Happy times!
Loads on Aliexpress. Think about a 40A one to leave a bit of headroom. You definitely need more than 25 amps.I need a cheap bms for this battery,the motor controller is 25a :
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ebike-Pedelec-Akku-17400mAh-36V-LiNiMnCoO2-NCR18650PF-Li-Ion-10S6P-/192058882946?hash=item2cb799fb82:g:zQgAAOSw5cNYWlm1
Anyone have a link to one I can use ?
Any thoughts about these batteries:Loads on Aliexpress. Think about a 40A one to leave a bit of headroom. You definitely need more than 25 amps.
Ok,then I think I will go for this small lightweigt battery 36v 17,4 ah 2830kg,and find a bms for LiNiMnCoO2.They're all very heavy because they have old-spec low capacity cells. My preference would be to pay more for a modern light-weight one, like you can get from Eclipse:
http://eclipsebikes.com/whale-174ah-lithium-frame-battery-samsung-cells-p-1128.html?osCsid=e53ed83456efa5724da31361733bdba8
Another thing: if you're going to buy a controller and battery, it might be worth going up to 48v for more speed and power. You don't need as many Ahs at 48v because you'll be using lower current most of the time. It's watt-hours that gives you range. Perhaps not 48v if you have a lot of steep climbs to do.
Yea, that would probably be a better choise for my needs, but how are they regarding to shelf life? I'm probably not gonna use my bike every week, so shelflife is more important than recharge cycles. Link to a good cheap one which will give me 10-15min of full throttle on my 500w motor?Your need was the one I had and so I read a lot and went over to the dark side of the force: LiPo = cheap battery, big Amps.