Thank you for taking the time to respond and I respect your opinion greatly and one of your posts is the reason I am jumping into making my own batteries instead of buying the Battleborns, thus saving me a ton of $$.
As far as doing my own research - that is what I did and led me to the video posted previously and the quote directly from Will's website. I'll post it again;
Bottom Balancing the Cells: This is REQUIRED when first building a LiFePO4 battery. It is also repeated in the previously posted video. What is your comment about this statement? Is it false? Is it old and outdated information? Is it a difference of opinion?
Do you have some other
research I could read or look at that would contradict this? The fact that he capitalized the word "REQUIRED" leaps out to me as something I should be doing.
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I see no mention of emergency equipment or vehicular use "ONLY" in the video posted or the website link from above? Is this just common knowledge and Will is not clued in on the subject? Is he giving out old and outdated information?
Because I have no idea what I am doing and it was written in giant white letters on the screen from the previously posted video and discussed at around 4:27. Screen shot below from
said video (Did you watch
this?). To be fair, he did say maybe he wrote 20%-90% on his website. I checked his website and found him saying 10%-90% to be on the safe side, so you are both in agreement there. I will be over panel'd and bought more than enough battery capacity for my needs (thanks to you saving me so much $ on building my own) so I would like to keep the batteries around as long as possible and that seems to me why he was recommending those settings.
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Thank you again for all of your help, and I truly mean no disrespect with this post as I am just trying to hash this all out and understand why there is conflicting information. I have a first grader knowledge of solar and battery building and that is why I am spending 5+ hours a day on this forum reading everything and watching every video on the topic that I can.