Bioenno Power Presentation with owner Kevin Zanjani

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[@w8natshenanigans705]

Nice presentation. I ordered a battery from Bioenno a while back. It turned out the model I wanted was tied up in production for a while, and rather than asking me to wait, Kevin himself offered me a VERY SIGNIFICANT upgrade for free, to get me up and running faster. Stand-up guy, stand up company.

[@hamradiotube]

You're not the first person I've heard that from. They certainly do have a reputation for outstanding customer service.

[@stevegriffin3609]

Thank you for sharing the live pro batteries he did answer a lot of questions for me because I never knew how they work. And actually how safe they are again Mike thank you for taking your time to put this on your KZbin channel. 73 WD5ENH Steve

[@hamradiotube]

LiFePO4 batteries can be absolutely abused and they will take just about anything you throw at them. I've seen guys shoot them with a crossbow, overcharge the heck out of them, all kinds of things. I don't think they would work after that but they never explode or catch fire. Super safe.

[@JaySteiner]

Thank you for posting this... really great presentation! I just upgraded to general and starting to build out a QRP POTA setup. This helped answer a lot of questions I had about what to do about a battery.

[@quantumradio]

Excellent presentation. Kevin sold me a 12V 12Ah battery and I've used it on road trips, state parks, and now I'm using it (testing) as the power supply for my home UHF/VHF radio.

[@hamradiotube]

Thanks bud. Get one of those power gate things and it will keep the battery topped off and act as a ups incase of a power outage.

[@tpobrienjr]

Good presentation. Thanks!

[@kennethblackwell1137]

Thanks, Mike & Kevin. That was very interesting. I was amazed at the broad list of applications that they are involved with and the description of the internal board and how it works. I've been using LiFe batteries in my RC airplanes for some time (Rx, servo power). Of course our batteries do not have internal circuit and we use special chargers with balancing capability. I'm thinking about using one of these for my Ham Radio Portable operations.

[@hamradiotube]

Much as they keep your airplanes up in the sky, they will keep your radios running too. Absolutely fantastic batteries. You might need to configure your charger to operate without its balancing feature though. I had to do that with mine.

[@walteredwards544]

Thank you for this. I had already planned on these batteries being my next purchase and now I can see what I think works best with my 705 and my G-90.

[@hamradiotube]

I would say one of their 3AH batteries would be great for the 705. For my G90 I use their 6AH battery and it works great.

[@Linas_LY2H]

Awesome! Very interesting presentation! Probably as interesting as my own story with Bioenno :) ! The Bioenno batteries are hard to obtain in the Nordic and Baltic countries of the European Union, no dealers yet. So I wrote straight to the company asking for the info on how could I buy the 12V/ 20Ah pack and immediately got an answer from Kevin himself! The answer actually was " What's your address?". The ordering and paying was quick and easy. And then, a few weeks later I got a parcel at my door with my battery in it! Right on time, for I was finishing my go box and a video on it! My field test of the 12V/20Ah Bioenno just confirm what Kevin said about the duration of ham radio operation on one charge in his presentation. Accordingly to my measurements, my go-box was able to run off this battery for more than 3 hours at nearly full 100W power at a heavy duty cycle ( ~90 percent CW TX, 10 percent RX + a tablet PC) and it only consumed 14 Ah of 20 Ah available! Thanks again for a fine video! 73! Linas LY2H

[@hamradiotube]

Thats awesome. So many people ask how they can get them in Europe. Did you just have to pay a lot in shipping?

[@Linas_LY2H]

@@hamradiotube I was charged for shipping around 130 USD , I don't have the papers at hand. One could say a lot, but it depends on the market and on the overal value for money. So as to the market, there is not much choice in this part of the world , except probably one German company selling LiFePo4 cells for DIY ( expensive but of good quality, I have a 12V/12Ah from them) or go the chinese way (why not actually if you know what you're doing :)). As to the value for money, I think the Bioenno, even with the high shipping costs included is a very good deal since it's certainly a very long time investment ( how many years would 2000 cycles make even for an active ham radio user? 10? more? ). :)

[@merlinonline67]

Brilliant, I've recently asked a lot of questions about this elsewhere on the interweb and the answers have varied from being extremely wrong to haven't a clue. Finally, I can get some decent power for portable operations!

[@hamradiotube]

Nice. Glad you found this helpful.

[@W8MJL]

Thanks again Mike for great content. Started following you when you got started a couple years ago, same time i got started, and you have never failed to present informative videos. Because of you i bought my 891, my bioenno 12ah, my WRC, built my go box and got started in POTA, i guess you can say you've been a big influence for my YL and myself. You are our Tom Cruise of ham radio...lol! Keep up the good work and see you on the air. 73 de W8MJL & K8MKL

[@hamradiotube]

Well that is very kind of you to say Michael I appreciate it. Also, I resemble that comment lol!!

[@bartweiss9663]

Thanks for posting this talk….looking forward to giving one a try. Great videos….thanks!

[@hamradiotube]

Thanks for watching!

[@normjacques6853]

Great presentation! Answered all of my questions and saved me a bunch of Ohm's Law math! LOL Thanks for hooking us up, Mike! 73 DE W1NLJ

[@hamradiotube]

Ah yes, math is my nemesis too. Thanks for watching. 73

[@normjacques6853]

@@hamradiotube ... To be honest, in my case it's simple laziness! LOL After retiring from almost 50 years in low voltage systems engineering, batteries are my weak point because the systems I worked with seldom used them! Bioenno's presentation was a great piece of education.

[@KM4ACK]

Nice presentation. Thx Mike!

[@hamradiotube]

Thanks Jason.

[@klrscout]

That's a lot of useful information about the product. I just bought the 15ah version with a wall charger. A bit of practice, surfing the learning curve for my FT857 and I will be in bidness.

[@hamradiotube]

Glad you found it useful, thanks for watching. I think you'll find that there isn't much learning curve at all. Just plug it into your 857 and your in bidness.

[@kd5you1]

This looks like an updated presentation by Kevin, and it is informative just as the last presentation was... I really like my 20 Ah Bioenno LiFePO4 battery.

[@hamradiotube]

Absolutely. Bioenno for the win.

[@TheNoCodeTech]

Great presentation, I actually learned a lot. Thanks.

[@hamradiotube]

Hey that's great, thanks for stopping by!

[@PatrickM66B]

Awesome video! Love to see it!

[@hamradiotube]

Thanks for watching. Bioenno makes some fantastic batteries. It was awesome for Kevin to take the time to do this presentation for us.

[@ChrisB_NC]

I’m sure it was a great presentation, I just couldn’t get through all the Uh’s and Um’s. Thank you for all your hard work!

[@hamradiotube]

I did almost zero editing on this video but I am always amazed at the amount of uhs that I edit out of ever one of my other videos. It’s really weird the things you don’t notice about yourself until you are editing your own content. It’s like, that’s how I sound?!

[@ChrisB_NC]

@@hamradiotube Absolutely... most people have no idea that they’re doing it. I work in a job where my interactions are recorded and that was something I had to work on. I did it a lot in the beginning and had no clue I was doing it. That being said I love your content. I’m in my early 40’s... which I guess still makes me a younger ham😁, and your videos are right up my alley. I find myself watching mostly you and ham radio crash course. I’ve been a ham for 5 years and I almost gave up on it due to the pushback I was getting from the old guard. I really got tired of hearing how I’m ruining the hobby by being a no-code extra. Literally every time it came up that I was an Extra some older ham would start complaining about it. It was very disheartening. You and Josh have really renewed my passion for the hobby, so when I say keep up the good work...I really mean it. There are younger or newer hams that need to know that there is a place for us, and not everyone set on making them feel less than because they didn’t have to take a code test.

[@hamradiotube]

I am very happy that I'm still considered "young" in something and I'm about to turn 41 in a couple weeks :( I've been a big fan of Josh's channel too. When I got my first Baofeng his channel was one that popped up a lot and I've been watching ever since. Fortunately I've never experienced too much pushback locally from the older hams. Most of the guys around me are really nice and encouraging. Being on KZbin you'll get your share of ass hats but that just comes with the territory. The way I see it, people that complain about someone else's operating style, license class, no code extra (I'm a no code Extra accredited VE as well), are the same type of people that would say if you can't drive a stick you're not a real driver. They're just not capable of adapting to change and are prob a bit jealous that technology has surpassed them (don't get them started on SDR radios lol!). I know that there are a lot of great Elmers not only on KZbin but in the real world too. I would encourage anyone who is subject to any kind of hostility to just brush it off and find a different repeater or club or whatever.

[@One-Eyed-Willly]

I use the 20 amp hour battery with a power-gate to use as a ups system. I also used it with a 150 watt power inverter to power two PA speakers .With my radio I tested for over 6 hours and the PA speakers for there. I don't have any thing to monitor the battery, so I have no clue how much joice I had left. I love this battery and every thing is on with Anderson connecters.

[@hamradiotube]

It's certainly amazing how much power you can get out of these batteries. You can get a wattmeter to monitor your amperage and voltage like this: amzn.to/38Jtkpz I have 5 of these types and the Powerwerx one is the only one that is accurate. There are no shortage of ~$15 ones out there but beware, they will be off a little.

[@lambertoutdoors]

Great info. Checking out their website now!!!

[@hamradiotube]

Great!

[@mikemiles3068]

Good video Mike❗️👍 I am going back and checking out some of your older video since I haven’t been one of your subscribers very long. Looks like you’ve got a lot of good videos posted 73. KV5P

[@hamradiotube]

Welcome to the channel Mike. Glad to have you here!

[@Jim.Hummel]

LOVE the shirt!!!

[@hamradiotube]

lol thanks!

[@DrivinwithJoe]

This answered a lot of my questions. And is still a valuable video 2 years later. I do have one question. And maybe I missed it. Can you have a Solar panel charging the battery while you are using the battery? Not sure if ever need to do that. But would be nice to know. Thanks for your videos. Hope to catch you some Tuesday evening on 10m.

[@randallwood8566]

Excellent shirt!

[@hamradiotube]

why thank you

[@expert244]

Great shirt!!!

[@hamradiotube]

Haha, thanks.

[@DK5ONV]

really nice live stream show. Thx for making this happen. Vy 73's de Günter

[@hamradiotube]

Thanks again for stopping by. 73

[@DK5ONV]

@@hamradiotube you are very welcome, Mike. I tried so many times to be here when you were live streaming but it never worked because of the different Time Zones we live. I already felt bad because of never making it to one of your life streams. I promise to get better. Happy sunday & stay safe...73's.

[@winstonsmiths2449]

Very good presentation, great information! Researching and costing my ham radio in a Apache 2800 case. Do you do will call?

[@hamradiotube]

I’m not sure what you mean by will call but thanks for watching.

[@MrTommy001]

I just bought one of these batteries yesterday from DX Engineering. I charged it up last night. Today I'm going to set it up to run my Yaesu 2600m 2 meter radio in my pickup. My RV has lithium batteries so I'm familiar with them. My question is, how do I know the "state of charge" (percentage of power left} with these since voltage is no indicator? The system in my RV has an indicator in my monitoring system. Is there a way?

[@lyfandeth]

If the BMS built into the battery will handle varying inputs, why do I need a special charger (instead of a generic 12-14.4 volt type) to charge it? I would think that as long as I could be certain to restrict the input current, that the BMS would make the battery happy and I'd need one less piece of gear. And could even use a conventional MPPT controller. (Again, within the charge range limits.)

[@hamradiotube]

LiFePO4 batteries want a constant current/constant voltage charge. The reason you need a special charger for that type of chemistry is also due to the charging voltage of the cells. They charge up to 3.65v per cell, or 14.6 volts for the pack. Once saturated they will settle to about 13.3~ V. Other chemistries have different charge voltages so while you can technically use even a power supply for your radio to charge it, you will never fully charge it because you aren't going to a high enough voltage. Even LiPo (lithium polymer) batteries charge to a different cell voltage. Lead acid is even lower. The BMS (or pcb) in the Bioenno's protect the cells from over charge, over discharge, over temperature, and balance the cells voltage. I wouldn't say the BMS handles varying inputs. Not sure where you got that from. You will also need a solar charge controller specifically for LiFePO4 if you plan on going that route.

[@1958johndeere620]

What's your call sign and name? LOL! I bought one a few months back, great battery. I had used my sealed lead acid booster pack to power portable and outgrew that real quick. My whole shack is run from a anderson power pole distribution block and I have run everything in my house shack with the bio during power outages. Just unplug the power supply, plug in the battery and I'm on the air.

[@hamradiotube]

Wouldn't those battery boosters absolutely destroy lead acid batteries? I love when the power goes out at my house. I immediately go to my radio and marvel at the zero noise floor. Its like I'm at a park, but I'm home. I love it.

[@walteredwards544]

They also sell a smaller and more packable solar panel too. What's the details on that one? Thanks in advance

[@hamradiotube]

I have their 28, 40, 60, and 100 watt solar panels I'm going to review. It hasn't been very sunny here since Memorial Day so I haven't been able to film a proper review yet. Initial tests have given me about 1.3-1.5 amps with the smaller ones and I'm hoping to use one of those with my G90 go box / solar generator. I suspect they will give me a bit more power during the summer as the sun is more overhead.

[@lyfandeth]

Why do the larger batteries (20A, 30A, etc) use a big gray Powerpole that most hams would simply have to cut off, when the same 45A style PowerPole that the charger uses would still exceed the discharge current of the battery?

[@forgetyourlife]

a great question. wondered this many times.

[@hamradiotube]

I didn't even know they did until you mentioned it. No clue.

[@nedgreenop2373]

Any info about traveling on the airlines with this type of battery?

[@hamradiotube]

Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure you can travel with up to a 12 amp hour battery. They are working on changing that though.

[@Frisky0563]

Will there be and deals on the Bioenna Power Batteries?

[@hamradiotube]

No, I just wanted to share this presentation. I'll make you a deal though. If you get a Bioenno battery, you will be happy.

[@Frisky0563]

@@hamradiotube Great just funished watch awesome box build 73's

[@v0n1b0]

Great presentation but work on get rid of the "uhs" 😂

[@paulhastings3109]

Still on the fence about batteries, but not now.

[@hamradiotube]

Hey glad to help!

[@Martin_PA0KGB]

When are they going to export to Europe?

[@hamradiotube]

Unfortunately I wouldn’t get your hopes up. I don’t really know the answer but I believe it has to do with shipping costs. You can order them but it would cost prob twice as much.

[@Martin_PA0KGB]

Sadly they have no distributors in Europe, and they don't ship to Europe. from Martin PA0KGB

[@hamradiotube]

Yeah I know, its too bad. A lot of people are wanting them across the pond. Not sure why they don't have a distributor over there.

[@Frisky0563]

Hello guys kc9dfk Chicago 73s

[@hamradiotube]

hello hello

[@pulponair]

The runtime calculation is just wrong.

[@hamradiotube]

You have to calculate it based off how you operate. I go by a 50% duty cycle as I operate primarily portable running pileups. That totally changes the amount of time you can get.

[@pulponair]

@@hamradiotube Basically what i meant by "wrong" is that the calculation is done on "TX watts" which is missleading. E.g. lets say you have a ft891: That thing draws ~1A at just RX, 7A at 10W TX. So on 50/50 RX/TX @10W a 12AH battery will last for like 2:30h plus/minus. (~5h at 20/80 approx)

[@hamradiotube]

@@pulponair No you'd prob get more like 5 hours at 10 watts with a 12ah battery running ssb. A bit less with CW or Digital I suspect. I don't really care about the formulas though. I've got LOTS of actual on air time and I always have a meter in line to monitor my AH's used as you can't go by voltage at all. I've still not depleted my 20ah battery but I ran the 891 for about 4 hours at 90 watts and made 300 contacts. I used 14 amp hours. By that math I was using about 3.5 ah per hour. I would estimate almost 6 hours of use out of the 20ah running full on pileups. I haven't run qrp on that radio in so long I don't have any data to back up the operating time, but it would be pretty long even with a 12ah battery.

[@pulponair]

@@hamradiotube Glad to hear that it lasts longer than it seems. 300 contacts in 4 hours? That is one contact every 48 seconds, sounds like a hard day ;)

[@davethewelder1]

Good presentation, terrible video. Rather see what ur presenting, not some picture of a map

[@hamradiotube]

glad you liked the video

[@NorthCountryHam]

I built my own portable power box, currently has a lead acid battery in it, but will be changing to lithium Iron to make lighter and better power cycles, excellent video, thank you , 73

[@hamradiotube]

You will be so happy you did. Half the weight of your lead acids and you get all of the rated capacity. Its a game changer for sure.