Re: [RE-wrenches] LI Batteries

2020-06-12 Thread la...@starlightsolar.com
Peter, This may be of interest to anyone looking into cheap Li battery products. For 7 years we have been dealing in Li batteries as a retailer, installer, distributor and importer. Not a single day goes by that I don’t receive 1 or more emails from a Li-ion battery company in China. I’m not ex

Re: [RE-wrenches] LI Batteries

2020-06-12 Thread Will White
Zeke Yewdall who does a lot of off-grid installations and teaches at SEI has worked with LI batteries from a supplier who works with electric cars like this before so I reached out to him. I know he had a lot of problems with the BMS because it wasn't designed for use with solar and the support he

Re: [RE-wrenches] LI Batteries

2020-06-11 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
I would also look at if the battery is listed for residential and if homeowners insurance would accept them? UL 1973 and UL 9540 are typical requirements for the battery as a whole, and not just the cells in a battery. You really want the insurance to be there in a claim. At the minimum, inform

[RE-wrenches] LI Batteries

2020-06-11 Thread pgiroux
Hello Fellow wrenchers. Has anyone purchased and used any batteries from Electric Car Parts out of Utah. They have a 48 volt, 5, 7.5 and 10 KW Lipo battery made by Energetech ( China ) . I have a customer that would like to use the product ( low cost ) but it is tough getting any actual info from t