Lithium heating pads
Has anyone added heat pads to your lithium batteries so you can charge below freezing. If you did what did you use and how did it work
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- What tank heater did you use
deltabravo wrote:
BattleBorn heat pads
Nice, but very expensive $220 for essentially what the waste tank heater does at 1/5 the price (I guess you'd need one of the Battleborn heaters for each battery, for me that would cost over $1200!)- I have. I added a waste tank heater stuck to a thin aluminum plate. That goes directly under my 6 LiFePO4 batteries. I also have a battery temperature probe attached to my Victron setup to prevent charging if the temp goes below 5C. Batteries are surrounded by foam board insulation.
I considered the grip heating pads, but the waste tank heater has the automatic temp kick in, so I went with that instead. Seems to work very well. It draws down roughly 6 amps per hr and comfortably kept the batteries 10 degrees above ambient. I didn't get a chance to measure under colder conditions as our season wrapped up first. - Someone I know used motorcycle or snowmobile grip heating pads.
- Yes. I have Battle Born LiFePO4 batteries and just used their thermostat-controlled heating pads. Not cheap, but very easy.
Rob
