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StirCrazy
Aug 04, 2022Moderator
JoeChiOhki wrote:StirCrazy wrote:
your about 4 years old with thoes prices, you can cut the battery prices in half or more now days. unless you insist on buying battle born (which theres nothing wrong with if thats what you want, but quality can be had for a lot less today) . my charging system cost me nothing, just a switch of a jumper on one and a different programing on the other.. I had to replace my power centre in my old camper anyways so I bought one that was LFP compatable, and I did the same when I decided to add solar. My 5th wheel will probably cost me about what you said for charging as I have to change my converter and my solar charger but it will only be about 12-1500 bucks for around 900AH of battery.
You can cut the prices in half by buying inferior products, those prices were taken from a direct lookup of the current Battleborn battery prices.
Anything else is cheap chinese junk and at risk of a cell failure and fire risk.
I honestly don't have a horse in the race, as I do not think the technology is ready yet to adopt at its current price points for all but those that like to experiment with new things, (A proper full disposal cost should be included in the purchases of all lithium batteries from my point of view including the cost of 90-95% component recycling), nor do I honestly care if you go cheap and end up burning your rig to the ground to save a few dollars, I can only offer up advice to not take cheap shortcuts and let folks decide what degree of risk is acceptable to them.
TL;DR I don't give two ***** if you decide to cheap out and kill yourself, I can only suggest that you don't.
do you actualy thing battle born has a factory in the good old USofA and manufactures there own cells. hate to break it to you but thoes parts are all chinese made and only asembled by battle born (and it wouldnt surprice me to find out the whole thing is assembled in china and shipped to battleborn)they are not any more superior to any other clindrical cell battery on the market using grade A cells. the difference with using prismatic cells is a lot less labour to manufacture them resulting in a lot less cost which is why the prices have been dropping , well as well shipping prices have come down as well. unless you are charging at levels above 1C you wont see the difference between a battery mader of hundreds cilindrical cells and one made of four prismatic cells, aside from there are more solder points in the clindrical build to fail.
as for fire rish they are both LiFePO4 make up so not the risk the old cobalt made, and just so you know for your own peace of mine a LFP battery is way more recycliable then a lead acid battery so does that mean we should start charging more for lead acid because of the non recyclable part?
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