FEH battery in a Honda Insight?
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Re: FEH battery in a Honda Insight?
I'm not an engineer but I think there is confusion here about the differences between amp-hours, amperes, and volts. On a more conceptual level, there are big differences between power demands and storage capacities of a 4000 pound FEH and an Insight that weighs about half as much and is much more aerodynamic.
@gpsman: You've seen the FEH cells? Do the sticks run fore/aft or left/right, and how many cells tall is the pack?
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Re: FEH battery in a Honda Insight?
Bill,
Evidently not always. http://www.hybridcars.com/gallery/22070/photo?page=2
Besides, 275 cells is an odd number of sticks of 5, which would place your output terminals at opposite ends of the pack.
So what am I looking at here, besides an enormous, inexpensive battery? I see the inverter on the right and ductwork at the rear of the car. Do the sticks run fore/aft or left/right, and how many cells tall is the pack?
Evidently not always. http://www.hybridcars.com/gallery/22070/photo?page=2
Besides, 275 cells is an odd number of sticks of 5, which would place your output terminals at opposite ends of the pack.
So what am I looking at here, besides an enormous, inexpensive battery? I see the inverter on the right and ductwork at the rear of the car. Do the sticks run fore/aft or left/right, and how many cells tall is the pack?
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Re: FEH battery in a Honda Insight?
An odd number of sticks would place the output terminals at opposite sides of the pack, creating a needless two foot long piece of high voltage, heavy gauge cable. Ford (or Panasonic, or Mitsubishi, or whoever) is not that dumb.
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They are arranged from left to right.
They are in 2 layers.
I believe there are 120 cells on the bottom later, 130 cells on the top layer.
Both layers have 2 rows.
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Re: FEH battery in a Honda Insight?
My calculation of a odd number cells was based on what FEH owners here have mentioned numerouse times, a 330V pack which now I'm unsure where that even comes from since Ford refers to it a rather non-standard way of 216-397V.
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