Joined Dec 2004
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back in cottonwood, az
very interesting thread. i noticed that the takis battery was made by hawker and marketed under the cyclon brand using what is called recombinent technology. for an involved discussion of what that is, read this article. (get comfortable and have at least 3 cups of coffee) http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/01 ... -0101.html
one caveat: i used to be in the medical equipment repair business and remember a recall of all hawker cyclon battery packs in several types of medical equipment (mainly cardiac defibrillators, which require sitting around a long time on charge and when used need a hard "hit" from the battery). it seems these cells had a venting problem and would tend to explode under certain conditions. well, the type of technology used would imply it didnt need a vent, but hey, maybe they didn't quite have it down yet. of course, i don't think there is an industry more paranoid than the medical - industrial complex on this earth. i recall these batteries were good performers, tho, and when we replaced them, we took the paks apart and used the cells for our personal projects. one of those projects was an ill-fated effort to dualsport a ktm/ rotax 504. made up a pak of 6 cells and stuffed them under the side cover. rode a 140 mile day and when i got back, smelled something burning, pulled the cover to find i had overcooked those babies to the point where they were melting the toolbox. yanked them out, used a capacitor instead. if they didn't explode during that adventure, they must be ok!
(long winded enough for ya? starting on that 3rd cup)
ned
ps: i agree with takis, if possible, try it and see what works. worst case, you start a fire 8O
one caveat: i used to be in the medical equipment repair business and remember a recall of all hawker cyclon battery packs in several types of medical equipment (mainly cardiac defibrillators, which require sitting around a long time on charge and when used need a hard "hit" from the battery). it seems these cells had a venting problem and would tend to explode under certain conditions. well, the type of technology used would imply it didnt need a vent, but hey, maybe they didn't quite have it down yet. of course, i don't think there is an industry more paranoid than the medical - industrial complex on this earth. i recall these batteries were good performers, tho, and when we replaced them, we took the paks apart and used the cells for our personal projects. one of those projects was an ill-fated effort to dualsport a ktm/ rotax 504. made up a pak of 6 cells and stuffed them under the side cover. rode a 140 mile day and when i got back, smelled something burning, pulled the cover to find i had overcooked those babies to the point where they were melting the toolbox. yanked them out, used a capacitor instead. if they didn't explode during that adventure, they must be ok!
(long winded enough for ya? starting on that 3rd cup)
ned
ps: i agree with takis, if possible, try it and see what works. worst case, you start a fire 8O
