Hah! Not too highly priced...OutlandishPanda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:49 am Thanks arber, that helped me search better. Looking at Italian stockists, it seems "radiator hose" is thinner wall than "heater hose". I've asked these UK guys as this seems to have the right specification. https://therubbercompany.com/hose-ducti ... iator-hose
Otherwise, I'll be buying this sort of thing, which gets me a few bends also...
That pretty much sums my my experience. My original cooling setup was a small radiator in front of the car with no fan. Original charger was a 3.3kw Volt unit. I had 4 way Tesla coolant valve that would allow me to bypass the batteries from the loop. Turns out there was never a situation where I would need to bypass the batteries. In fact they would never get too warm in the summer and it was a struggle to get heat into them during the winter. Once I upgraded to the 10kw Tesla charger, the batteries would get pretty warm on a hot day and I realized that I would need some fans this year.celeron55 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:26 am I'd consider battery cooling important only if a vehicle will have a charging rate higher than, say, 0.15C, as it's really only fast charge/discharge cycling that will accumulate enough heat to be a problem, unless you regularly have like >30°C daily average temperatures.
Climate has less to do with cooling, but more to do with heating. The most important thing is whether you'll have below freezing average daily temperatures - most wouldn't risk charging lithium ion batteries below 0°C.
That is a nice radiator with fans. Is that a custom one or you pulled it out of another vehicle?jon volk wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 7:20 pmThat pretty much sums my my experience. My original cooling setup was a small radiator in front of the car with no fan. Original charger was a 3.3kw Volt unit. I had 4 way Tesla coolant valve that would allow me to bypass the batteries from the loop. Turns out there was never a situation where I would need to bypass the batteries. In fact they would never get too warm in the summer and it was a struggle to get heat into them during the winter. Once I upgraded to the 10kw Tesla charger, the batteries would get pretty warm on a hot day and I realized that I would need some fans this year.celeron55 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:26 am I'd consider battery cooling important only if a vehicle will have a charging rate higher than, say, 0.15C, as it's really only fast charge/discharge cycling that will accumulate enough heat to be a problem, unless you regularly have like >30°C daily average temperatures.
Climate has less to do with cooling, but more to do with heating. The most important thing is whether you'll have below freezing average daily temperatures - most wouldn't risk charging lithium ion batteries below 0°C.
Now that I have the car apart to redo the cooling system, its getting a full size radiator mounted in the rear of the car with a pair of fans. I still have the 4 way coolant valve, but its purpose now is to bypass the radiator. Now I will be able to use the fans and larger radiator to take heat out while charging (hopefully soon CCS charging as well) and in the winter I can bypass the radiator and utilize heat from the drive unit to warm up the battery. Also changing from a single high flow pump to two Tesla Model S water pumps with one mounted in the front of the car and the other in the rear.
I never had any thermal issues with the batteries or the motor with the tiny radiator and driving quite hard.
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