Create power sink for battery discharging

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Create power sink for battery discharging #28

Open cmcgowan27 opened 5 years ago

cmcgowan27 commented 5 years ago

We already have a hairdryer for this, but the resistance needs to be adjusted. It might be better to just start from scratch.

Discharging is achieved through a setting on our charger. It basically just needs you to attach a resistive load in series with the battery. The objective is to get as close to 20A as possible without going over.

Maximum battery voltage: 25.2V Maximum discharge current: 20A

AndrewKhans commented 5 years ago

I'm looking into this idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKpvwm4dYM

By changing where the clamps are placed, we can easily change the resistance of our load.

AndrewKhans commented 5 years ago

I'm writing out my plan here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LlEzYf9FmxAQ5uzxBKVTstpMqzxpbYxb5coI3bHy0s4/edit#