September 15, 2011, Thursday: Today, I drove another 20.4 miles. Since the conversion and driving daily the EV truck has driven 596 miles without failure. 100% reliable. The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home today with a state of charge was ~60% or 149.6 Volts. Started automated charge with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 7:55 PM, at 28.4 Amps. Charger was completely automated and not manually adjusted during charge. Charger reduced current to zero at 9:58 PM. Total charge time was 2 hour and 3 minutes. Warm peak pack voltage, absorption, was 175.0V. I noticed the morning after the charge (Friday) that Regulator 9, for Full River batteries #15 and #16 in the circuit had the red light on. The lower limits on the regulators is still the Manzanita Default setting.
Reg 1: 12.92V
Reg 2: 12.96V
Reg 3: 13.02V Highest
Reg 4: 12.89V
Reg 5: 12.91V
Reg 6: 12.93V
Reg 7: 12.98V
Reg 8: 12.96V
Reg 9: 12.86V Lowest. Rest of code: 09T 074F 09X COLD 09S 09 09MI 03.25V 09MA 14.8V 08V 6.49V
Reg11:12.92V
Reg12:12.91V
Expect the next Full Charge on Saturday will reset this Regulator. The voltage is not abnormally low.
