Re: Battery power for big SSTC

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "william_b_noble" <william_b_noble-at-msn-dot-com> 



a more interesting thought is to look at cranking power - the 6V battery in
my dodge will deliver about 600 amps (for at least 30 sec to a minute), a
12V battery from a large car will deliver 300 to 400 amps - now, use that
value in your calculation - 400 amps at 240V is enough to start to be
genuinely impressive.

Just be sure to take the caps off the batteries first

 >
 > KEN
 >
 >  > probably still get 60A, just not for so long.  If we hook up twenty of
 >  > these 12V batteries, we have 60A -at- 240V = 14.8kW to play with. (Yikes!)
 >  >
 >  > Could this be a way of overcoming the limitations of smaller domestic
 > supplies?
 >  >
 >  > Cheers
 >  >
 >  > M
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > * Automobile for those in the USA
 >  > * I should really call them accumulators.
 >  >
 >  > --
 >  > Matthew Smith
 >  > Kadina Business Consultancy
 >  > South Australia
 >  > http://www.kbc-dot-net.au
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >