Recent content by Kenny'sID

BUT, doing this with all the batteries in series will kill them REALLY fast. fast charging is already bad for lead but you also dont give the cells the time to naturally balance out. that will result in a major inbalance in a battery and it will take your whole set out in just months after a...

Then the maximum charge rate is 2.5A? I'm not needing to treat these with kid gloves, yet I don't wan to ruin them with a few charges, as I have nearly 1000 18650's for some good battery builds, I just haven't gotten around to building them. IOW, this is temporary.

I have 4 12V 18AH SLA's wired together for 48v and there are times when I need a faster charge. I'm using a 2.5A charger now and wanted to add another to that for 5A total charge rate. So I guess I'm asking 2 questions here...what's the max charge rate for this battery (in case I want to add...

I may do that. Already I have had to come back here for helpful info, even things I had posted and forgot/couldn't find anywhere else, so I can see how a thread like that would be handy. Thanks for all the info on the 1500w controller and the throttle, it'll come in handy. I'm really not...

Took the both you to get me thinking but it's fixed now. For some very odd reason I did solder the green to the red wire after all and they don't belong together. I recall testing by touching the wires because, as I said, I pulled them out adjacently when I removed the throttle so I didn't see...

Here is the thread I mentioned. I doubt anyone cares to read up but if you should want to see something of the connections and why they are as they are, the thread is here https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=82176&p=1206882&hilit=throttle#p1206911 and I don't see that the...

Simple throttle have 3 wires. Black is ground. Red is 5v from the controller. The third wire is the return voltage to the controller that changes as the throttle is used. That sounds about right.I tested the red @ 4.5V and that is helpful to know just what goes where. Twisting throttle wires...

What it sounds like is that it was wired with all three wires correctly on the original controller before moving the throttle, then after moving it the wires were accidentally soldered together isntead of separately, and that would cause your problem. No, it was soldered before. I questioned...

So at this point, you had all three wires of the throttle wired correctly to the three wires from the controller? Yes, correctly, as in the bike ran fine before I stared making the changes...had 20 or 30mi on it. Which color on the throttle went to which color on the controller? Throttle =...

I had to add to/reposition some things on my handlebars so I could get more on them and after putting things back together I get no throttle. I tried the throttle just before I did this and all was well. when I moved the thumb throttle to put it on the other side, I tried to do it without...

I may look into the wire checker. I ordered the balance cable yesterday, another long wait from China...I'm so cheap. I also recently go my Capacity Controller in, something I just picked up because they were cheap and they will balance, as well as other things with a nice big digital read out...

Thanks, for the verification, and I'll check that out. For future reference, one can usually just go to the thread and copy/past the URLfrom the address bar to link up the thread. My cells are from all new, some old stock, Laptop packs, and much better than a year of tedious ordering off ebay...

That's a big help, and thanks so much for your reply, JJ, as well as for getting the pics up for me. OK then, I didn't know all that...you just made the fuse decision and easy one, done deal. I'm using the 34 gauge fuse wire suggested by the youtube guy, something, something "powerwall" ...

Are there sometimes reasons when it's more advisable to fuse individually and times it's not so necessary? Or is it a good idea all the time? Odds of problem without? Why not just the one main fuse? Or what will a the main fuse not protect? I also wanted to mention what I'm doing so you all can...

Thank you, Bill. Actually These are 2 packs in parallel so i can put one on each side of the bike for a good balance and all, and they can just as easily be charged separately. So from what you say I'd be better off to charge each half of the pack separately and I'll get a faster charge...