Battery Vehicle Society

Hullo Peter I have been loosly following your work with the BMS for your car. I note you appear to have gone over to a Pic instead of the Picaxe, can you tell me which post was the last version using the Picaxe. Is the picaxe version for the 08M still viable for balancing lipo cells. The latest pica...

Hi all
For what it is worth have you guys had a look at this ladies web site.
http://www.idleloop.com/robotics/RAV4-EView/
The display looks very interesting.


centrex

Hi
What has happened to all the reports on the progress of the hardware and software.
It made very interesting reading even for someone who does not own an electric vehicle.
Regards
Centrex

HI Greg I have been following yours and Peter Perkins information on BMS systems. I have been doing a fair bit of hunting on the web about the subject but have not been able to find information on the requirements for balancing the cells can you point me in the right direction for information. I do ...

Hi Peter Re the noise problem you have. Have you tried ferrite suppression sleeves these are the lumps you quite often see on laptop power supply cables and on the signal cable of computer monitors. They came as plain tubes and split types that will clip around the cable, passing the cable twice thr...

Just wondering is your Honda still being used while you are doing all these mods and waiting for bits to arrive.

Hi Peter
That all makes sense, I just hadnt thought about in those terms.
Pictures of the display etc look very neat.
regards
Centrex

Hi Peter I have just been looking at the software below and I am wondering about a bit of the code. [quote="retepsnikrep"]Master and Slaves running at 2400 baud data comms for 12hrs, http://www.solarvan.co.uk/bms/SLAVEDIGITAL071008_V16_2400BAUD.txt The section just after Interupt: you make...

Hi Peter I have been following your posts, in particular measuring the supply voltage to the Picaxe. I have a temperature logger with an lcd readout and I wanted to monitor the battery volts without having to drag out a multimeter to check. I have implemented a version of your software useing a 2.5v...