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11.25.2010, 02:45 PM
Ok, finally going to pull the trigger on this project. Need to pull the battery out of the bike and measure the available space.
Thinking that I will have enough room to do 2 rows of 6 cells, and they will be standing up, on end. This should be about the same width and length of the stock lead acid battery but about half the height.
Since it will be a 4s3p pack I will arrange the cells are 3p in a row, and likely use powerpole connectors to series wire the 3p together. Going to use 12 gauge wire to attach everything, as I have alot of it.
Hippie sent me some thin kydex awhile back (thanks sweetie!) and I may use that to make a 5 sided box. Not sure how I will connectot the new pack to the main wires from the bike, currently it has ring terminals that bolt to the lead posts on the lead acid battery. I may just make some mounts on the side of the kydex carrier to bolt the stock main wires to and terminate the new pack with ring terminals. Not much of a starting load, as I have started this bike with a 5000 25c 3s lipo with 12 gauge wires, deans plugs and some aligator clips (my portable motorcycle "jump box")
Will have pics up in the next few days...
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