Preparing the Mighty Boy - Battery Box Construction and Welding up of PVC Liner
Fabricating the battery box
Trial fitting....
Tight fit between body rails....
PVC welding the liner boxes...
40 Li Ion batteries will be housed in this....
(40 ThunderSky 90 Ah cells - 120 volts - 10.8 kw weighting 120 kg)
Version 1.0 will be limited to 24 ThunderSky 90 Ah cells - 72 volts - 6.5 kw weighting 72 kg....
The nearly complete sealed PVC battery container
More detailed photographs will be added later showing the top cover (again using 1.6 mm Al propeller plate) and the "sandwich" method used to hold the cells in position.