Daly BMS Warning
Daly BMS is Bricking Older Products! Just the Facts: Two 100 Ah BTR Power batteries W/ Daly BT BMS's Batteries Manufactured in late 2019 Daly updated the [...]
Solar Array Safety
The BMS Was Supposed to Protect my Battery? . In this video I explain why your PV array voltage needs careful consideration. If your MPPT fails and [...]
American Assembled Li-Ion Batteries WTF?
American-Assembled - When Marketing Claims Don’t Match the Product .The LiFePo4 battery industry has finally matured. Unfortunately, the marketing departments of some US based battery assembly companies [...]
LiFePo4 Balancing vs. Charge Rate
. Why Passive-Balancing LiFePO4 Batteries Have a .2C Recommended Charge Rate One of the most common misconceptions about LiFePO4 batteries is the belief that a battery’s advertised [...]
Calculating LiFePo4 Short Circuit Current
Why all the secrecy Around Short Circuit Current? This article has been on my to-do list since 2016. I had started it but, never finished. In [...]
LiFePo4 vs. AGM Charge Efficiency
In this video I cover charging efficiency between AGM & LFP. I also explore multiple absorption voltages for LFP and their effect on SoC. Also, quite by accident, [...]
Safety Marks That are Scams
CE vs. CE - Same Letters, Very Different Story If you’ve spent any time shopping for marine electronics, battery chargers, inverters, diesel heaters, or any other gadget [...]
Re: Wattcycle Batteries
What a Debacle I watched Will' Prowse' latest video and I am certainly surprised! Yet, at the same time, I know that Wattcycle is one of the [...]
LFP is Li-Ion
LiFePO4 is Lithium-Ion: Why Terminology Matters Li-Ion Chemistries: I assure you, both these guys meant well but, their education surrounding "li-ion batteries" is just lacking. It's well-meaning [...]
17 Year Old LiFePo4
My LFP battery just turned 17 Years old! PLEASE HELP! This site is 100% reader supported. My wife is urging me to shut it down as it [...]
Crimp Heat-Shrink Terminals
Crimp Like a Pro, on a DIY budget In this video we take a look at the gold standard HST-PRO for heat-shrink terminal Crimping. We have also [...]
Insane LiFePo4 Value
Wattcycle Hits it Out of The Park! For many months I've been awaiting this battery & Wattcycle has done it again! This time by combining incredible physical build [...]
Copper Clad Aluminum Wire Warning
. Copper-Clad Aluminum Wire = A False Economy Every few months this comes up again, usually after someone finds a “great deal” on wire that seems too [...]
Jailbreak Your LiFePo4 With a BMS You Control
A number of drop-in battery companies have gone out of business leaving you with an unsupported product or worse a BMS app that's no longer supported or [...]
Wattcycle 48V V2 Rack Mount Battery- Killer Value
In this video We take a look at the brand new Wattcycle 48V V2 Rack Mountable battery. For those with electric propulsion, or larger [...]
24V or 48V Boats?
Higher-Voltage House Banks: The Real Costs, Benefits & Pitfalls Nobody Tells You About Preface: I get so may questions on this topic I decided to [...]