No, I was surprised myself, I was just in the zone. I was redesigning my battery for the homestead, and just blogging while I was doing that.
The new design is getting really close to what I want, I think I have a final design for a 24 volt 20 amp battery bank! with 6 sticks per bucket, 8 buckets will give me 960 amp hours; which will give me 23,000 watts.
I will need to 3D print 200 battery holder rings, unless I can figure out a way to use off the shelf battery holders. But I can print at least two at a time (four I hope) so it is not quite so bad.
I will still need many thousand spring connections, and I still need to work that part out!
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wow sir smithlabs..an engineer's work is never done it looks like! you have a 3D printer in your shop?
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You don't???ROFLOL! It is a new TOY, I have to have one! I have played with it a little, but this will be the first Work for it. Got to love that, new toys new jobs!:ODownvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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yes sir smithlabs..does that time a long time to make something? you go online and download the plans or whatever and send them to the printer?
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It is slow, because you take tiny dots of hot plastic, and stack them up, one on the other, to make a 3-D shape.
What I want, no one else has ever made, so I will need to make the model first, then make the part. Actually I will need to make four part models, and print them all at once.
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oh ok sir smithlabs and you will be doing this in your spare time at night?
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I am quite good with AutoCAD and drawing things, ROFLOL! The 3-D printer runs by itself after I tell it to print.
At first, I will only print a single battery bank set, to be sure all is right.Once the first one is tested, I will begin heavy construction of the entire system. My bandsaw will cut a dozen tubes at a time, so the actual construction should be quick. I may even order some doughnut shaped Printed Circuit Boards, to go between layers of batteries.
I have ordered the BMS already, and it will be here before I am ready.
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sir smithlabs but what is BMS that you have ordered already? doesn't sound good.
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Sorry, BMS is a Battery Management System. I was designing one myself, but I found a nice one I could buy for less cost, than I could build my own. If it behaves, I will need 50 of them.
When I finish, this battery will look like a reactor core; but it should last over 30 years, without me messing with this battery bank.
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