Can you highlight the pros/cons for the two batteries I listed?
Thanks for your reply!!
I bought my battery from the list that Will Prowse has on his website (he’s the owner of this DIY forum). He does list Litime on his site but not LION. Not sure why. He recently removed Battleborn from that list because of several reasons that
@12vDC listed, but their warranty apparently also excludes manufacturing defects and only covers design defects. One of the reasons that Litime is popular is they know shoddy workmanship at the factory happens on occasion and they are pretty quick to replace them.
I really wanted a Bluetooth BMS so I could troubleshoot the system if needed, which the Litime doesn’t have. So I went with the Powerurus 200Ah with a 200A Bluetooth BMS. The 200Ah size fits better where I need it than 2x100Ah.
I spent over a year learning about these lifepo4 batteries and watched a lot of Will’s tear down videos. I’m really really glad I didn’t fall for marketing schemes designed to make me want to buy NOW, lol! Wasn’t easy to do.
So I agree with the other person, learn and study as much as you can. Some batteries don’t have many third party reviews and so you have to rely and trust and know how to read their spec sheets. I don’t know how, so I skipped all those batteries. Instead, I bought from this list:
I don't really care about BT so LiTime might be my pick.
If this will be your only battery, I recommend getting Bluetooth. Cells getting out of balance is a real thing and if you don’t stay on top of it (how would you know without Bluetooth to read cell voltages?), then worst case scenario is your BMS shuts down and you won’t know if it’s a cell imbalance thing gone rogue or if the BMS has simply fried itself. However, if you have multiple batteries, then you can just swap them out.
I bought my battery from the list that Will Prowse has on his website (he’s the owner of this DIY forum). He does list Litime on his site but not LION. Not sure why. He recently removed Battleborn from that list because of several reasons that
@12vDC listed, but their warranty apparently also excludes manufacturing defects and only covers design defects. One of the reasons that Litime is popular is they know shoddy workmanship at the factory happens on occasion and they are pretty quick to replace them.
I really wanted a Bluetooth BMS so I could troubleshoot the system if needed, which the Litime doesn’t have. So I went with the Powerurus 200Ah with a 200A Bluetooth BMS. The 200Ah size fits better where I need it than 2x100Ah.
I spent over a year learning about these lifepo4 batteries and watched a lot of Will’s tear down videos. I’m really really glad I didn’t fall for marketing schemes designed to make me want to buy NOW, lol! Wasn’t easy to do.
So I agree with the other person, learn and study as much as you can. Some batteries don’t have many third party reviews and so you have to rely and trust and know how to read their spec sheets. I don’t know how, so I skipped all those batteries. Instead, I bought from this list:
The lithium batteries below are considered "Drop-in Lead Acid Replacement" because you can use them with standard 12/24/48 volt solar charge controllers/chargers/inverters and more. Simply hook them...
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Scroll down a bit to see the Powerurus batteries. These are made by Roypow, who has a long reputation for making lithium batteries. Will has had nothing but good things to say about these, here’sa tear down video he did:
Looks like Powerurus is getting aggressive with their pricing, the 100Ah model us on sale for $340, but there’s another $20 off via a coupon, so it’s $320 total for quality cells, high and low temperature protection and Bluetooth BMS.