August 13, 2011: On 8/13 I drove the EV another 16 miles to Landmark Ford. Ambient temperature at charge was 70 degrees F. State of charge 55% at 149.3V pack voltage.
Started second charge today at 4:34 PM:
Turned current to 29.0 Amps for 1 hour and 44 minutes to 171.0.
Charger turned itself down current to 21 Amps for 9 minutes to 170V.
Turned/tuned potentiometer down counter clockwise to trigger blue light at 170V instead of 171V. At 1 hour and 49 minutes Regulator #7 was at 14.8V blinkin yellow and the pack close to 174V and the PFC charger cut to 0 Amps or 0.005Amps. Charge time 1 hour and 49 minutes. As seen before, regs 1,2,3,and 7 were the first to hit 14.5 Battery pair for reg 8or 9 is the lowets to come up.
Next: Continue to understand and fine tune ramp down of PFC 30 charger. Also need to set lower voltage limits.
August 23, 2012:
August 24, 2012
August 23, 2012: There have been approximately 20 charges and 250 more miles since my