Battery decisions

Through alot of reserch and discovery the current decision for the extra batteries is that we will be adding 16 batteries to a new bigger box in the tunck of the vehicle. Due to limitations on the controller we will be removing one battery from our new box and replacing it with a dummy peice so that in the future modifications and upgrades will be simple. The motor has a recomended limit of 170 volts but appon further investigation 192 volts is acceptable. The controler however has a 200 volt failsafe that it will not allow for electricity to flow through if it detects an amout exceeding 200 volts, this is the reason for the dummy battery. When the batteries are at 3.2 volts each the pack voltage reads 195 volts but when freshly charged single battery voltage can raise to 3.3 volts but will alost imidiatly fall down to 2.2 when a current is drawn. At 3.3 volts the pack voltage exceeds 200 volts which may cause problems. The controler issue can be resolved but at the cost of what we beleive to be 500 dollars, it does not seem iminantly important to pay for such when minor modifications can be made. With one less battery the pack voltage at 3.2 is 191.8 volts and at 3.3 it is roughly 98 volts. Lets hope that no more major modification will need to be made.