I think that needanswer totally misunderstood my post about heat. Let me clarify here. Adding waste heat from the engine to heat your electolyte (to a point ie 140F to 160F) is GOOD. Putting too much voltage to your electrolyte to heat it is BAD. I never recommend adjusting amps to warm the electrolyte, so that is a misleading statement for sure. I do everything I can to limit or eliminate the heating of the electrolyte by the current flow.
As Glenn stated, unless you put some kind of system in place to regulate voltage or current, the electrolyte will go into thermal runaway. By using the right number of properly designed and built cells in series to divide the voltage, you can severely curtail the effects of thermal runaway without having to add a lot of electronics for a simple boosting system. We're not talking rocket science here, we're talking about simple DC boosters.
BobStatistics: Posted by Bob Boyce — Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:45 am
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