E-Moli Build & Review

The following information details how to build an E-Moli pack from the Milwaukee V28 power tool pack. This pack contains seven cells and the video below details how to make these into a flat flight pack.

Also included is the PDF file by Lenny970 of RCGroups, this PDF is republished here with his permision. The PDF file shows how to configure various cell configurations where as the video is just for a seven cell pack.

E-moli PDF (by Lenny970)

Build Video - QuickTime format (by Jeff Quayle)

Build Video - Windows Media format (by Jeff Quayle)

Build video notes (from Jeff):

There are 2 points that weren't touched on in the video that I feel I should explain.

1. When gluing the cells together I mention that the battery bars will only be on one side and the glue provides extra strength. What I meant is that on any two cells, there will only be a battery bar on one side. Not that only one side of the pack has battery bars.

2. I didn't show the soldering up of the main power wires. I ran out of wire and needed to wrap up the video before I could purchase more. I also mis-stated that you'd need a longer piece of black wire then red. In the video, the Negative lead attaches to the bottom left and the Positive is the upper right. You will actually need about a 12" piece of Red and a 5" piece of Black wire.

One thing I will say for these packs once built, they are rugged. Much more impact resistant than a standard lipo, these things should take a pretty good hit without much difficulty. I have gone with the TP-210V balancer to charge through and balance these packs, I'll also include some info on this balancer once I've had some more time using it on the E-Moli packs.

I'll produce some more data showing their performance inflight in comparison to a standard off the shelf 6S lipo once I've got them run in.

Before flight testing I had the lab perform a set of tests on a single cell, the results can be found on the lipos page.

More to come....