Is there any way to make a 12s battery with 30 cells?

ESK8 Electronics
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I’m trying to make the best battery (12s) with 30 cells, but instead of a 12s2p(24 cells) is there any way I can add 6 cells?

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Just buy 6 more cells to make a 12S3P pack. If you add anymore cells in parallel the pack would not be even in terms of capacity. Your pack as a whole would be bottle necked by your lower capacity parallel sets.

In short, just buy more cells.

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I can’t, they won’t fit in my enclosure.

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So go for a 10s3p, easy

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or a 6s 5p

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I believe 10S3P is probably the best solution as you will use all your cells, have a good compromise range/power and finally probably realize that you did not really need 12S

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Why not???

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10S is already plenty and the sweet spot for the VESC. 12S is pushing it and if you are not really going for ultimate top speed it is not necessary.

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30/12 = 2.5 so no

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Ok I understand

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Im curious to know if you could run 10s3p and then run a boost converter up to 44.4vs (12S) thatd be neat.

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Yeah that would! I’ll probably contact you soon for a battery

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Okay sounds cool. Let me know ahead of time so i can order parts and reduce your wait time.

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I don’t think any boost converter ICs can handle boosting voltage and supplying large amounts of current like 10A +. The complexity of the electronics would outweigh simply adding more cells.

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Cut 6 of the cells in half. Then you’d have 12S/2.5P

Problem solved. :wink:

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im sure something exists out there that can solve this problem. And if so it would be sick