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mlts22
Jul 23, 2014Explorer
Don't forget the charger. With a set of AGMs, I can have a RV converter, 2-3 solar charge controllers, and on a motorhome, a second alternator feeding the batteries a ton of amps.
Try that on a a lithium mix battery, and you will either have the battery pack blow its thermal safeties and be rendered useless, or you have an explosion. For proper charging, you have to have all the devices "know" about each other, or have everything go through a single charger for safety reasons.
This isn't to say this can be done. Advanced RV uses a Silverleaf controller to have one point of exit and ingress for electrons from its lithium-ion battery bank. However, if you want something from them, you are going to be looking well into the six digits.
As previously posted: $$$$$, and that applies to the batteries themselves as well as the charger.
Try that on a a lithium mix battery, and you will either have the battery pack blow its thermal safeties and be rendered useless, or you have an explosion. For proper charging, you have to have all the devices "know" about each other, or have everything go through a single charger for safety reasons.
This isn't to say this can be done. Advanced RV uses a Silverleaf controller to have one point of exit and ingress for electrons from its lithium-ion battery bank. However, if you want something from them, you are going to be looking well into the six digits.
As previously posted: $$$$$, and that applies to the batteries themselves as well as the charger.
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