Lthium charged with mppt controler

Gdetrailer wrote:

Run without this protection and the result is nothing short of a spectacular 2300F degree fire..

Unless you really have top notch understanding of all the charge/discharge parameters of Lithium batteries it is best to leave them in profession hands..

Perhaps another 10 or 15 yrs they will find better ways to deal with the potential hazards but not as of yet..

Guys get off the everything catches fire trip already! LiFePo4 will NOT catch fire the moment you overcharge! All Lithium Ion are NOT the same for the 10000000000000000000 time! Do some friggin research! Some folks on the DIY EV forum have deliberately overcharged their LI batts and absolutely ZERO caught fire (there was physical damage to the cases...bulging). You would literally have to GROSSLY overcharge them for hours and hours and hours, maybe even days, well past physical damage to the batts themselves AND your batteries BMS system would have to fail at the same time to allow this to happen. Here's a fun fact, you and I CANNOT buy the LI batteries that are used in cars, cell phones, laptops, or the Boeing 787. The LI batts we'd used are LiFePo4 which have totally different characteristics than those used in the vehicles and electronics I mentioned.