Wish me luck - I just picked up two Shorai's and have immediately voided the warantee with a mis-application.
The first one I got for free, a 3-month old new LFX (Lithium Iron phosphate) 14A1-BS12 from a guy who was afraid to use it. The second one is another 3 month old LFX36L3-BS12.
These are basically SLI powersports batteries, but I'm going to try and see if I have the skills to keep them alive with a continuous 1A draw within specs. Wish me luck since this voids the warantee if you use them as the sole source of power. Since they are so expensive, my hands were shaking when I took this home. And uh, yeah, in my slow-draw misapplication, the PbEQ capacity value is about 1/3 to maybe 1/6 that rating. We'll see.
I also splurged by getting the BMS charger to balance the cells before I try solar charging them. In both cases, they took awhile to balance out. The plan here is to use them on weekends like normal with my panel and pwm controller, and then upon return balance the cells again. Maybe I'll look into a Genasun MPPT controller for LifePo4 later. At least I can hit them somewhat hard, which I got addicted to with Odyssey AGM's, and on the smaller side, Hawker-Cyclon agm's.
It will be a fun ride - I just hope I didn't crash my wallet. Without an LVC cutoff, I'm going to have to be on top of my game.
The first one I got for free, a 3-month old new LFX (Lithium Iron phosphate) 14A1-BS12 from a guy who was afraid to use it. The second one is another 3 month old LFX36L3-BS12.
These are basically SLI powersports batteries, but I'm going to try and see if I have the skills to keep them alive with a continuous 1A draw within specs. Wish me luck since this voids the warantee if you use them as the sole source of power. Since they are so expensive, my hands were shaking when I took this home. And uh, yeah, in my slow-draw misapplication, the PbEQ capacity value is about 1/3 to maybe 1/6 that rating. We'll see.
I also splurged by getting the BMS charger to balance the cells before I try solar charging them. In both cases, they took awhile to balance out. The plan here is to use them on weekends like normal with my panel and pwm controller, and then upon return balance the cells again. Maybe I'll look into a Genasun MPPT controller for LifePo4 later. At least I can hit them somewhat hard, which I got addicted to with Odyssey AGM's, and on the smaller side, Hawker-Cyclon agm's.
It will be a fun ride - I just hope I didn't crash my wallet. Without an LVC cutoff, I'm going to have to be on top of my game.
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