New LiFePO4 Battery Can Power Your Station (

[@kevinrtres]

Given the power outages in my 3rd world country, I've been forced to buy a 1200 VA/1200W hybrid inverter system that came with a 100AH lead acid battery and I used it to supply electricity during outages. The lead acid battery konked in in a few months because of being discharged below 50% frequently. So I replaced it with a LIFEP04 100AH - exactly the same as shown here. The bonus is that the BMS has a bluetooth interface that gives an indication of charging and discharging state. So far the Lithium battery is not even close to getting to 50% discharged. So far so good.

[@donaldsmith3048]

I live in Florida and when there is a tropical storm the power can go out. I got a 100 AH battery and a little box made to switch from my power supply and the battery. Made by Power Works has Power Pole connectors for the battery, load, power supply and solar panel. I have not tested how long it will run my VHF-UHF radio and my IC7300 when the power is out. I have not yet got the solar panels for it yet, but hope to have some soon.

[@steliosraf]

Easy to calculate!! I have a spare 60Amp battery and my emergency radio consumes 0.8 Amp/Hour so i have at least 2 full days of receiving at emergencies chanells

[@hopefuldad]

Thanks for sharing 18:54 Dave. You’re so smart. It is fun to have a solar station. Take care of yourself friend.

[@Mike-H_UK]

Looking forward to the follow up video. This is very interesting.

[@mewrongwayKOCXF]

Awesome Dave, Im really interested how this goes for you! 👍👍👍

[@robertmeyer4744]

That was very good. looking froward to up dates on this. I take mt ICOM 7300 portable (parks on the air ) with LiFePO4 battery and charge solar. I have a charge controller 300 watt like yours. it is the powerworx one. folding 300 watt panel. I was getting RFI noise from the MPPT controller and put T 240-43 ferrite cores on PV input and battery side close to the charge controller and it took out the RFI noise. I have more than 1 controller and so far it works on all MPPT even my Victron MPPT I have at home, just wind the ferrite like a common mode 1:1 choke and use for DC. both pos and neg wound together. A lot of SOTA and POTA and field day users are going solar. thank you for great information . to tell capacity of LiFepo4 you need a shunt monitor like the Victron smart shunt. this reads percent of battery and charge /discharge amps. 73's

[@RowanHawkins]

Anytime I've ever seen a pretty colored side to any battery manufactured, it has been a sticker. Peel that sucker off and find out who really makes it. That is the starting step to finding a better price.

[@parttime9070]

My 24 volt 150 amp LiFePO4 battery and 2000 watt inverter run's a full size refrigerator 24/7..

[@craighinkel8821]

The Lithium iron phosphate batterys BMS can handle 50 volts and will turn off to prevent an overcharge when the battery is full. A $40. DC-to-DC converter (50 volts in, 13.5 at 40 amps out) between the battery and the power strip. It will let you drain the battery to 11 volts (BMS low cutoff) and at the same time keep your radios at 13.5 volts

[@02immune]

Just a quick warning. When you were showing the slide about connecting the power source directly to the battery vs. the power distribution panel, you said that the solar panel should be connected directly to the battery. I know you meant that the power from the solar panel should be routed to the battery (after going through the charge controller) but you didn’t make that clear and your diagram didn’t show the charge controller. Just afraid a novice might not understand and connect the panel directly to the battery, which could cause damage from excessive unregulated voltage . Otherwise, great video. Thanks Dave !

[@craighinkel8821]

The battery BMS can handle 50 volts and will turn off to prevent an overcharge when the battery is full. A DC-to-DC converter (50 volts in, 13.5 at 40 amps out) between the battery and the power strip. It will let you drain the battery to 11 volts (BMS low cutoff) and at the same time keep your radios at 13.5 volts.

[@Jiminico]

Dave has been slipping up a lot, unfortunately, as time passes.

[@a2phil]

Do they have smaller batteries? I'm looking for something I can charge during daylight and use at night, but doesn't cost a month's check!!! (Bioenno!!!)

[@g-whiz286]

For those of us who don't have solar and just have our big old Astron power supply putting out 13.8 volts, can we simply add this battery across the 13.8 volt bus as a backup power source the same way we do with our legacy SLA batteries? I read somewhere that while the LiFePo battery may not provide full capacity if charged to 13.8 volts, under charging it will make last a lot longer. Alternatively, I could turn up the Astron to 14.4 volts and keep the LiFePo battery fully topped off. I've read that keeping the voltage across the battery that high allows the cell balancing mechanism to work.

[@g-whiz286]

I am assuming you used 10 AWG wire with a 30 Amp PowerPole between the battery and your distribution block and the output of your charge controller connected directly to the battery terminals. To run your amp, you're going to need at least 4 AWG (cables) connected directly to the battery terminals.

[@hughh.8075]

Excellent. Well done and a great help. Thanks.

[@forextraderradioman]

Thank you for this video about the new LiFePo4 battery. I am curious about the detailed report on your experiences, especially in the daily use of the photovoltaic solar system and the behavior on the shortwave bands. Does the MPPT controller produce interference on the HF-bands when the battery is full or empty? If you operate a shortwave antenna close to the PV system? How clean is the 12V (13.2V) DC voltage, controlled with the oscilloscope? What does the panorama on the SDR-Play receiver say? I am always happy and grateful for your profound and scientifically based reports. All the best to you and yours, greetings from Hamburg/Germany, Dietmar, DL4HAO

[@Jiminico]

No, not buying an unheard of GoldenMate battery that you recommend that you haven’t tested or torn apart yet. Haven’t heard of anyone else that has tested one either. Sell out just to make a couple cents off your viewers and we’ll be the test suckers. Just because they gave you a free battery. Really!

[@mikemcnamara3777]

Made in China.

[@glenmartin2437]

Thanks, Dave. N0QFT