Battery Charge #5

July 18, 2011:  This is the beginning of 30 consecutive days of EV commuting in the truck.  Today the round trip commute was 9 miles. 

Evening Charge:  Begining State of Charge 150.5 V; 60%.  Start Current was 25 Amps for 30 minutes.  Yellow charger warm light came on.  Turned down to 20 Amps for 20 minutes until the state of charge reached 170V.  Then reduced to 15 Amps for 10 minutes.  Then to 10 Amps for 10 minutes as pack reached 170V.  Charged 50 more minutes at 5 Amps.  Final pack voltage (warm or right after) was 162.6.

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