Itinerant1 wrote:
If your going to quote and use it like the gospel try staying in the same chemistry. Li-Colbate is not LiFePO4 which is used in these battery/ inverter devices and what most are using in the rvs.
Next will be Lifepo4 isn't safe because Li starts fire on planes.
While it may be a "different chemistry", it will like any other battery STILL lose capacity each and every use, it WILL still degrade over time whether "stored" or "in use", it CAN AND WILL degrade if not used and stored properly.
Everything degrades, the Earth, the sun, your body, your RV, your device you are typing on, solar panels,the chemistry in your batteries, nothing is exempt and has a FINITE life.
To think otherwise, you are saying "we" as in "man" has discovered the magical and mythical "perpetual machine" (AKA "over unity") which would break every known and unknown scientific facts to man and universe..
Man has been searching for ways to create a perpetual motion machine since the dawn of time.. It can't be done and it won't be ever done as that is just the way the Earth and the entire universe works.
Even a generator degrades, but it can be easily stored and brought back to life many yrs later with virtually no ill effects unlike any battery.
A generator you CAN repair.
A battery, you CAN'T repair. You must replace the battery and 5 yrs later, odds are, you will never find a battery to fit your device as there is no set Lithium battery size and capacity standards to follow.
A very good example of where the Lithium battery thing is headed in the near future, everything powered by battery will be disposable throw away.. That future is already here..
HERE"Electric Car Battery EV Replacement Cost Exceeds Vehicle Value
Thinking about buying a used electric car? The cost to replace its battery could exceed the vehicle’s value. For a St. Petersburg family, that is the shocker when mechanics diagnosed its battery needed to be replaced. This 17-year-old was excited to get a car to drive herself to and from school. Her parents spent $11,000 on a used electric car for her. It’s a Ford Focus Electric. The car is a 2014 model, with 60,000 miles. Replacing the Ford Focus battery costs $14,000, exceeding the car’s book value!"Imagine buying a 8 yr old EV with only 60K miles for $11K then 2 weeks later discover that the battery is dead and the replacement is $14K!!
Even worse, the Ford dealer while looking into that battery discovered that Ford has discontinued that battery and it is no longer available!!
60K miles on a gas engine now days isn't even broke in.