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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 09:46:38 JST AI6YR Ben

   Repurposed electric vehicle (battery) for ham radio. #ev #battery

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 10:27:45 JST Steve's Place

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     • Cavedale Rhônes

     @ai6yr @CavedaleRhones The 48V box with batteries included is sweet. The aluminum casing should isolate any fire to a relatively small area, shouldn't it? It looks like enough power to run the place all day, then charge it using cheap rates at night. In a power outage, if I was reasonable, I should get by for a couple of days with PCs up. heat/AC on, and the fridge still chugging away.

     The HOA has no good rules for solar. In fact, there are 2 conflicting paragraphs, one which suggests a homeowner can install them, one which suggests they cannot, unless it's for common use, which is impossible b/c power is individually metered. Nighttime power is pretty cheap on the plan I'm using. It could work, and PGE would send me emails calling me the greatest "energy superstar" of them all, because none of my power would be grid power during peak hours. Or they'd bump me off of this plan, lol.

     It's the fire part that has me hesitating.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 10:27:46 JST AI6YR Ben

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     Somebody has been buying EV batterys and breaking them down... (JAG35)... #batteries

     https://jag35.com/

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     Cavedale Rhônes (cavedalerhones@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 10:27:46 JST Cavedale Rhônes

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     @ai6yr Awesome site! Bookmarked!

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 10:27:46 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Cavedale Rhônes

     @CavedaleRhones I'm leery of Lithium batteries, but at least these folks seem to know what they're doing. I don't think I'm going Lithium on the ebike, but if I were, these really are good prices, and they have schematics and controller details and everything. (and DIY kits)

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     Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 10:49:22 JST Steve's Place

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     • Cavedale Rhônes

     @CavedaleRhones @ai6yr Point. He has videos on the subject.

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     Cavedale Rhônes (cavedalerhones@sfba.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Sep-2025 10:49:23 JST Cavedale Rhônes

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     • Steve's Place

     @steter @ai6yr Guessing a lithium battery fire would melt the aluminum housing like butter. Clearly there are safe ways to work with lithium batteries or you wouldn’t be carrying one in your pocket 😉