Battery placement prissiness

[tomjasz]

Depends on where you get your data. I'm a ham radio operator, and we have extensive experience with battery usage and management. I can't point to any studies conducted by hams that would pass scientific scrutiny. Just thousands of hours of actual field experience. I'm going with that.

It seems, Thomas, that your approach is more "if it isn't in a peer-reviewed journal it doesn't count." Let's stop haggling with each other over this stuff. We both have a lot to offer folks who are newer to all of this than we are, and in the absence of actual harmful advice, let's just let it go.

No haggle, just solid facts. I have a bunch of HAM friends, none use lithium ion batteries, and none use any batteries in the same manner as we do on bikes.

But yes, I do count research by makers and researchers in the field of lithium manufacturing and deveopment to be more valuable than my fiends and anecdotes. I also trust the testing I've done with the dozen or more batteries I have and have used for near 5 years now. I also rebuild and build my own batteries, and am not counting those, so I've invested a lot of time learning.

I'm sorry if you take my correcting as haggling. Not my intent. If you can point me to the data indicating otherwise I'd really like to read it!?

All the best!

TD

 

[Over50]

In my NSHO, we should be demanding standarized battery packs. Selling proprietary 13s, 5-6p packs for tripple the value will not grow the industry....

I think the industry and technology is too nascent to demand or expect standardization of battery packs just yet. If anything we should demand standardization of their safety/certification. If anything we should demand better biking infrastructure (if we really want to see the industry grow). But how the packs are integrated and other characteristics can still be a source of competitive advantage. And unit sales probably don't support a separate competitive battery industry just yet. And from what I can see the industry is growing despite the proprietary/boutique nature of many of the sellers and suppliers.