Hey folks, please apologise if this has been asked before. I googled a lot but didn't find anything useful. I want to build 48v LFP battery of 16s cells. They are 280AH EVE cells with following dimensions
W:173mm
H:207.5mm
D: 72mm
I'm looking for some sort of rack mounted enclosure that possibly could have outside connectors at least. Something like pylon tech has, but without batteries. Thanks in advance.
If you are a financially challenged red neck adventurer (like me), fifteen of those 280Ah cells fit very neatly into a standard filing cabinet drawer arranged 5x3 with plenty of extra room for one or two extra cells and suitable clamping plates.
It will tend to fall on its face when you pull the drawer forward though.
One way to fix that is by bolting a barbell weight to the back.
Another way to do it is leave the sliding drawer fixed in position, and with a bit of fiendish modification, unbolt the sheet metal top, and arrange for the top of the filing cabinet to open upwards on a piano hinge at the back, see the second picture. A bit agricultural maybe, but entirely neat and practical.
If it looking like an ordinary dumb office filing cabinet offends you, turn it around so the front faces a wall, the top can still hinge up from the back, and it then looks like a neat plain metal box with a hinged lid. Which it is what it is.
I did it with thirty much smaller 50Ah Winston cells arranged 6x5 in the two pictures below, but fifteen +1 or +2 280Ah cells also fit pretty much the same. If you check the dimensions you will find this is true. I have already done it, but do not have a picture of it to post right now.