SiO2 Batteries and High Amp Draws
SiO2 is a specialty battery type that most folks would have no use for vs the usual RV battery types. They cost a lot too.( I had a special reason to get one) Here is some info on them --I am not s...
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StirCrazy said: “haha, weird that they are so expensive there for LFP. you had to order the Sio2 and just doing a quick search a drop in bought online from alberta lithium is 550ish this one
but ya it makes sence if you alreay had one to get another , after all what are you going to do, throw it out.”
Yet I don’t view this as some kinda ‘dire situation’ but rather just an alternative path to arrive at one’s own particular energy needs…For PT, cold weather is of paramount concern, so it’s great for others to know that there’s a viable alternative that (admittedly here, just from my own perspective…) has excellent performance characteristics though (IMO…) seemingly more similar to other FLA’s (i.e. but higher currents, and no sulfating = longer life) than to the nearly flat voltage plateau of LFP’s…
Cost is yet another another factor, and though prices more recently have appeared to drop, in the not too distant past (e.g. ‘conditions on the ground’ at the time…) LFP cost for our neighbors in the north seemed excruciatingly high ($$), likely making acquisition a relative rarity…Again, just my lay opinion only, but ultimately the BEST overall option might easily and logically have been to go forward using the very same battery type - No dreaded after thoughts required !!
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but ya it makes sence if you alreay had one to get another , after all what are you going to do, throw it out.”
Yet I don’t view this as some kinda ‘dire situation’ but rather just an alternative path to arrive at one’s own particular energy needs…For PT, cold weather is of paramount concern, so it’s great for others to know that there’s a viable alternative that (admittedly here, just from my own perspective…) has excellent performance characteristics though (IMO…) seemingly more similar to other FLA’s (i.e. but higher currents, and no sulfating = longer life) than to the nearly flat voltage plateau of LFP’s…
Cost is yet another another factor, and though prices more recently have appeared to drop, in the not too distant past (e.g. ‘conditions on the ground’ at the time…) LFP cost for our neighbors in the north seemed excruciatingly high ($$), likely making acquisition a relative rarity…Again, just my lay opinion only, but ultimately the BEST overall option might easily and logically have been to go forward using the very same battery type - No dreaded after thoughts required !!
3 tons
