Helicopters have hybrid batteries?

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  1. Hayslayer

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    Reading through the news today. Saw an article about the Mi-28 Havoc and it showed a photo of an interior compartment. Tell me that doesn't look like a Panasonic/PrimeEarth HV battery on the floor......if I could just find one in a salvage yard.....

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    That doesn't look like a Panasonic/PrimeEarth HV battery on the floor.
     
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    It looks like a case that has racked modules in it . It at what voltage and kwh who knows
     
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    Gotta love the white towel stuffed in next to it. Factory standard towel, no doubt.
     
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    It's on a flow end of the case too
     
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    Thank you! You get the bonus points!

    I zoomed in on it and the sticker says "Ivan's Craigslist HV Battery Service"
     
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    That picture is endlessly fascinating. Too bad the resolution isn't a little higher.

    Is that cluster of keys wired to a shelf on the left side, next to that black component?

    The wiring harness looks like it was assembled by Ivan on the 3rd day of a bender. Near the center there is a roughly vertical collection of many loose wires running from a silver component into a horizontal part of the harness maybe a foot below. Hopefully that isn't how they fly, but rather that they were working on some problem and unbundled that section to gain access to those wires.