So for the past few days, I’ve been making a super effort to clean up the battery boxes, and surrounding area. This means putting the trunk lids back on, vacuuming up all the odd pieces of metal, and taping off all the exposed metal that could be hazardous in the battery boxes.
Then I went and lifted all the batteries into the boxes and put shims in around them to stabilize the batteries. Well, shims, pieces of wood, spare plastic tubing, whatever works and is generally non-conductive.
Here’s the rear trunk:
And here’s the front trunk:
Next step is to start wiring all the batteries (109 of ‘em) together.
Hey Peter,
It looks like you removed the rain pan from the engine compartment lid. Is that for cooling and ventilation (I know you’ve had issues), or because the EA battery boxes were too tall?
Thanks,
MarkB
It was a clearance issue – the battery boxes were too tall.
I’m considering buying the engine compartment battery rack from EA. Do you think it would be possible to cut out some of the length of the support legs and lower the rack? (I know there might also be motor clearance issues.)
Sure, you could lower the legs. *OR* you could just have a rack built for you. If you need measurements, I’m sure we could come up with something. I’m actually a huge fan of cardboard mock-ups these days – I did it for the rear compartment to see how to layout the charger/dc-dc converter/BMS/etc. I still do not recommend going with EA – the racks took a long time to arrive.