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I want to preface this by saying I’m not doing this, but the idea has popped in my mind. For example if I have a 48v battery bank, but decided to charge it with (4) 12v or (2) 24v chargers. Has anyone else thought about this or maybe even tried it? Obviously you would have to be careful of your...

40Kwh is an average. My peak was 70kwh. I’m in South Carolina in a brand new house. My house is on 75 in the summer with all of the fans going. If I go any warmer the Mrs. will have a fit. With being in SC solar is better than average so that’s a plus. The house is really well insulated. I was...

Thank you all for responding to my post, but I haven’t received replies to my original question. If you were asked to design an 100KwH battery bank using LiFePO4 cells, which size cells would you use? 100ah seems to be the most readily available, but I have also seen plenty of higher ah rated cells.

I am actually starting to look at 96v equipment.

I would agree that I would need to do a full charge/discharge cycle for maintenance purposes. I have seen the 85% to 15% level to increase longevity, also saw the difference in between that and 75% to 25% being better when I calculated cost vs. returned longevity. I’m not worried about space so...

If in my scenario I can get for than double to life of my battery bank then I’ll get my monies worth. With the research that has been done the method on which I am going to use my battery bank I should get many multiples of the standard 2000 cycles.

- Battle Born teardown - Solar Batteries: How low can you go. Increase performance and lifespan of your battery bank.

There have been many studies done on how to increase the lifespan of your lithium battery bank. Will has done a video in this has well. C-Rate, Charge Voltage and the Cutoff Voltage, and the temperature. With my current power company I can go back and look at 30 min blocks of time and see how...

I’m looking to put together a large 48v system for my house to take it off grid. I am going to use LiFePO4 prismatic cells. I’m just wondering which size cells to use. Each of my 16 strings is going to be 2000ah. Yes I need over 100kwh battery bank and here is my reasoning. My average daily...

Thank you for your reply. How will I be able to keep the charger offline until I actually want to charge the batteries? This will not be a solar system. I will be utilizing hydro power that is very constant in power production throughout the day and year. I guess I will be using the batteries...

From all of my research on the LIFEPO4 batteries it is recommended to have a charge/discharge cycle that starts at 75%-80% SOC and go to 25%-20% SOC if you want the longest lifespan for your batteries. My question is how do I keep from prematurely charging or over discharging my batteries?