theyerb
100 W
I have recently been inspired by some of the posts by Doctorbass in the EV Battery forum. From what I understand, he has been getting A LOT of used and broken Makita power tool packs from some source, and as I understand it, for FREE! The Konion cells in the Makita packs are what I was after since they require no balancing when put in series. I called up a few battery service places in my county to see what I could find. Here's what I found:
One of the shops gave me two boxes like this full of all kinds of different batteries. Each battery was in a little plastic bag- protects the batteries from shorting out on one-another.
Here's all of the batteries on my table with some of the better finds in front.
And here's what I'm after: these beautiful little neon green gems.
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.c...00 worth of cells out of it, so I'm happy :)
![3272762317_c59967734e.jpg](/sphere/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3372%2F3272762317_c59967734e.jpg&hash=61767a32c5cf0e21701f12e060cf3474)
One of the shops gave me two boxes like this full of all kinds of different batteries. Each battery was in a little plastic bag- protects the batteries from shorting out on one-another.
![3273584746_e9f67acfb7_b.jpg](/sphere/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3338%2F3273584746_e9f67acfb7_b.jpg&hash=71ee0fb8367a19a96d4c80028a44d711)
Here's all of the batteries on my table with some of the better finds in front.
![3273585956_93dde1f3f4_b.jpg](/sphere/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3390%2F3273585956_93dde1f3f4_b.jpg&hash=4c1122d38b4e40d4a455bcbbde2757ae)
And here's what I'm after: these beautiful little neon green gems.
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.c...00 worth of cells out of it, so I'm happy :)