Interesting, but they didn't seem to provide a solution to the problem of leaving a lead acid battery at less then full charge. Leaving any PbA battery at say, half charge, for more then a few hours is damaging due to sulphate deposits. This is not a problem with NiMh, so the Insight does't care about leaving the battery overnight with very little charge. This is VERY BAD for lead acids, and when repeated a few times, will cause quick death.
Lead Acid used to Replace NiMH
I thought I had menchoned this before but didn't see it when I did a search ... so I figured I would post this so everyone knows about it....
Espeically with all the recent concern about battery pack replacement I have been reading lately....
Basicly there is a group of people who replaced the NiMH 144 Volt Battery pack in the Insight with a Lead Acid Battery pack....
http://www.batteriesdigest.com/lead_for_hybrid.htm
They of course were doing it in coroperation with a lead acid battery maker, and were a bunch of engineers in a fully equiped facility...
The article listed above goes into some of the details.... But not any of the down and dirty details needed for others to also make this swap out and who knows what all was required to make it happen....
What this does mean though ... is that other batteries can be used in the insight to replace the NiMH and with lead acid being a option a cheaper alternative is out there ... The big remaining question is what is required to make it happen?????
I am still in school ... and yet do not know enough to figure it out on my own... continued web searching has not yeilded more answers for me ... so Until I am more educated or until someone already more educated does the work to figure it out this is the key and main missing piece of detail needed to make this kind of swap out.
To those who already knew about this.... I don't think anything new has happened.... they made the switch proved it would work and haven't done anything else with it since....
Just an FYI for those who didn't know about it...
Later
Ian.!
Espeically with all the recent concern about battery pack replacement I have been reading lately....
Basicly there is a group of people who replaced the NiMH 144 Volt Battery pack in the Insight with a Lead Acid Battery pack....
http://www.batteriesdigest.com/lead_for_hybrid.htm
They of course were doing it in coroperation with a lead acid battery maker, and were a bunch of engineers in a fully equiped facility...
The article listed above goes into some of the details.... But not any of the down and dirty details needed for others to also make this swap out and who knows what all was required to make it happen....
What this does mean though ... is that other batteries can be used in the insight to replace the NiMH and with lead acid being a option a cheaper alternative is out there ... The big remaining question is what is required to make it happen?????
I am still in school ... and yet do not know enough to figure it out on my own... continued web searching has not yeilded more answers for me ... so Until I am more educated or until someone already more educated does the work to figure it out this is the key and main missing piece of detail needed to make this kind of swap out.
To those who already knew about this.... I don't think anything new has happened.... they made the switch proved it would work and haven't done anything else with it since....
Just an FYI for those who didn't know about it...
Later
Ian.!
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