EV-100 Charger/Profile

[Prof Bill Neill <ev3bill@yahoo.com>]

The next cards to be discussed are the CHARGER/(BATTERY-FUELCELL).
This will be difficult, so we may be better off selecting the simplest
configuration, to get it 
going.

Each battery type will require a Charger Card that will accommodate all
the needs of this type 
of battery, including all profiles established for best, longest life,
battery service. There 
may well be 5 or 10 cards, each for flooded lead acid batteries, all
doing the same thing, but 
with different charge profiles. Time will decide which is best.

There is argument about using 2 cards from the outset. My judgment is
that the CHARGER/PROFILER 
CARD must fit both the vehicle EV-100 bus and the *EXTERNAL* charger
EV-100 bus (nothing more 
than a connector, with a few connections in use). This will allow for
these same cards to be 
used both on board the vehicle and in the charger on the floor. NO
effort will be made to 
ATTACH to a card in a stand alone charger, for the purpose of recording
data, this is to be 
done ONLY IN A EV-100 EQUIPPED VEHICLE, since you need the other cards
on the bus to complete 
this feature.

WE STRONGLY OPPOSE ANY EFFORT TO USE DIFFERENT CHARGER/PROFILER CARDS
FOR THE CHARGER AND THE 
VEHICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By way of the second card, the CHARGER CONTROL CARD, exclusively on the
EV-100 SYSTEM BUS in 
the Vehicle, we will be able to establish some degree of safety for the
vehicle and it's 
occupants (docked at a charge station), as well as control the charging
process and provide for 
data recording about the charge process and the batteries as a pack and
individually.

The Charger Control Card needs to meet the requirements for *safety* in
the vehicle. Now, I 
know most of you have a charger in a metal box on the wall or floor, but
this is dangerous and 
will continue to need to be improved as an issue. Why! There is no
monitoring of the conditions 
of the charger or battery pack, overheating, long term charginging etc.

Consider the need for proper profile charge cards for EACH of the
following Battery types:

NiMH
NiCad
Flooded lead acid
Gel Cell

Then we have fuel cells:

FC-5

Mating the CHARGER CONTROL CARD to work with the CHARGER/PROFILER CARDS,
all done on the EV-100 
SYSTEM BUS, will be achieved with much effort and it will be our first
step up in some time.

Bill Neill.

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