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mistercrash · 06:57 PM

I don't know how many SLA bricks you have in there to get to 80Ah. I was running 34Ah of SLAs before and could get 45 km of range on summer weather. A quarter of that in winter, SLAs don't do well in the cold. Man 80Ah of SLAs is a lot, a 20Ah 12V SLA is like 7.1''long by 3'' wide by 6.5'' high. Geez 48V 80Ah would be 16 of those bricks hidden in that scooter. I don't think that's possible, I'm thinking they say the scooter has 80Ah of battery but I'm doubting that claim. You need to take the whole thing apart

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Going lipo on a scooter is not like going lipo on a bicycle IMHO. Scooters are heavy and need more Ah, so more cells in parallel. If I were to go lipo, which I don't wish to because lipo don't have a long life compare to LiFePO, I would get single Turnigy 5000 mah 20C cells and make a battery in 16S6P to have 59.2V nominal and 30Ah. At $8.50 per cell that's $816. Lets say $900 for a Lipo battery that might be good for 300 cycles. And remember, you're sitting on that battery.

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mistercrash Guelph, Canada, eh! Offline Posts: 1,083 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada	09.14.2012, 06:49 PM I don't know how many SLA bricks you have in there to get to 80Ah. I was running 34Ah of SLAs before and could get 45 km of range on summer weather. A quarter of that in winter, SLAs don't do well in the cold. Man 80Ah of SLAs is a lot, a 20Ah 12V SLA is like 7.1''long by 3'' wide by 6.5'' high. Geez 48V 80Ah would be 16 of those bricks hidden in that scooter. I don't think that's possible, I'm thinking they say the scooter has 80Ah of battery but I'm doubting that claim. You need to take the whole thing apart We want to know the truth about your scooter Going lipo on a scooter is not like going lipo on a bicycle IMHO. Scooters are heavy and need more Ah, so more cells in parallel. If I were to go lipo, which I don't wish to because lipo don't have a long life compare to LiFePO, I would get single Turnigy 5000 mah 20C cells and make a battery in 16S6P to have 59.2V nominal and 30Ah. At $8.50 per cell that's $816. Lets say $900 for a Lipo battery that might be good for 300 cycles. And remember, you're sitting on that battery. No brain, no headaches. Last edited by mistercrash; 09.14.2012 at 06:57 PM.