I just wanted to say thankyou!!!!! I just purchased one of your 48 ah pcb's with 2 gauge imputs. And this video answered every single question i had!! I wish more videos were like this straight to the point and very simple to understand. You have a new subsciber thx have a awesome day!
***TIP*** If your only using a couple of the terminals, I would also recommend taking some short pieces of wire and connect them and loop them in between the unused terminals. So whatever terminals are not being used with your wire to the amplifier just take a short piece of cable and connect the unused terminals together.
When a pcb like this is used. All the terminals should be used and have equal lengths of wire. If you have wires coming from alternator to the battery and wires from battery to amplifier then they should be put in one after another. Like if the first lug is a wire coming from alternator then the next lug should be to the amplifier then the next lug should be the alternator then the next one amplifier and so on. All the lugs should be used if you plan on drawing full power & make sure your alternator got a charge controller that monitors it's temparature because Lifepo4 can take so much charge that it will fry the alternator if the battery is low & the engine is at idle when the alternator fan is spinning the slowest.
I think we should just ignore that guy. Most of his views are coming because of this channel 😂. Otherwise his videos do not even have 10 - 20views. He could not even present a proper datasheet from the cell manufacturer when i asked for it and just posted some links to 3rd party sellers. Very few makers can produce a high c rate Lifepo4. Anr26650 and headway 8ah's are known industry wide for high discharge current.
Hopefully the new Daly s series will be able to do the job on my 96 ah. It’s on the way will be finding out soon. Not running a huge system but still a consistent 5000watts
I need to either buy or build a 12v battery bank. I’m using it strictly for charging handheld devices and running my CPAP at night. I’d buy myself a battery specifically built for my CPAP but there’s not enough power to run it multiple days. So it’s either run my truck for hrs everyday to charge it back up or get a battery that can last the entire trip. I’m looking at the costs to build one vs buying a already built 12v battery and it’s looking like I’d be better off just buying a already built battery. For anyone that reads this and knows what should I do? I’ve already got a big ass ammo box that I can easily fit a 100 amp hr battery. I don’t need a sophisticated system I just plan on doing a simple 12v DC socket with a built in gauge and on and off switch.
Hey Jehu I bought a few of the older 64ah headway pcb. Without the lugs. Is there any cons with the old pcb? I have 2 , 0gauge lugs are bolted to the battery And 1 charge cable from my alternator. It works great for years but I’m now upgrading my amplifier from 5kw to 8kw and will be upgrading the 1/0 cables to 2/0. Should I upgrade my pcb bus bars?
I'm kinda wondering what would happen if you added the all threaded connectors that allow you to screw two cells together on top of the bottom set of cells stack them and put the top plate on won't it give you a 24v battery?
@jehugarcia would be great for 24v inverters I just purchased one from sungold power. Do a video on that type of setup may help sell to a larger crowd. I just got my boards in and populated them with the headway cells I'm just waiting on 8 more cells to come in from battery hookup
Quick off topic question. Ive watched several of your videos about using your PCB 18650 kits. On some of the stacks you mention using two of the BMS boards. Is more than one required for a certain number of units or is this just for amperage. IN other words, If I order the 25 pack, how many BMSs are needed? Thanks.
Question on 2/3/4 connections. I see that your pointing to the area of connection between batteries. My question is do I just use a self tap screw with my ring terminal into the board itself or is that not what you mean and it connects to one of the battery bolts?
I just bought one of these, using dc power supply full state of charge is around 17v, I have a mechman 390 amp alternator charges at 15v. This battery is doing good for my 10k watt sound system build, however it should be advertised as a 14v battery because charging at 15v it never gets past 20% state of charge according to the balancer. I am only using a portion of this thing capability, and my amps are only rated for 16v max so a voltage boosting harness is not an option, also their customer service wasn’t good, having a hard time talking to anyone. Questions about cold weather use
@@jehugarcia thank you seems like a dumb mistake but yes the chemistry was set to LIPO not LIFE, switched it over and all good state of charge was at 94 percent resting a touch over 14v! Thank you, final question what is temperature operation with this battery ? Do I need to worry about slow charging in colds months I live in WI ?
Active balancers are useless for LFP as long as they can't be turned on exclusively at high or low SoC. Any other time they are messing with the balance more than fixing it, as out of balance cells can have barely any difference in voltage during the plateau phase.
This is 100% correct, I have a balance board for my 16s lifepo4 I made off of the a123 26650 cells and because lifepo4 chemistry has 80% of it's charge at the nominal voltage a balancer does not balance until they're either at 10% voltage or 90+ and you can see the charge transfer on the Dalybms Bluetooth app. I have the leads connected at all times but only put the board on to balance when one cell drags.
the active balancers "turn on" as the voltage of the cells drift. Its pretty cool. They actually are on all the time but only do the cell balancing if one cell starts to drift and then the balancer gets to work. once the cells are even the balancer is really not doing much and just in standby mode.
Correct, I only use my 16s balancer to balance when one cell lags after fully charging because that's the time the balancer is most effective and when the voltage difference are more visible for it to work. Li-ion don't suffer from this because they have a linear discharge curve unlike our lifepo4 cells. One cell can be 30% soc while the other cell be 70% soc and have the same voltage.
@@jehugarcia so I was only asking because I’ve been using a balancer on the charge ..but with my recycled 18650 I also use the bat-go to just for the monitoring of the cells and it just been running no over or undervoltage
I just wanted to say thankyou!!!!! I just purchased one of your 48 ah pcb's with 2 gauge imputs. And this video answered every single question i had!! I wish more videos were like this straight to the point and very simple to understand. You have a new subsciber thx have a awesome day!
thank you for explaining the order of connection.
***TIP*** If your only using a couple of the terminals, I would also recommend taking some short pieces of wire and connect them and loop them in between the unused terminals. So whatever terminals are not being used with your wire to the amplifier just take a short piece of cable and connect the unused terminals together.
When a pcb like this is used. All the terminals should be used and have equal lengths of wire.
If you have wires coming from alternator to the battery and wires from battery to amplifier then they should be put in one after another.
Like if the first lug is a wire coming from alternator then the next lug should be to the amplifier then the next lug should be the alternator then the next one amplifier and so on.
All the lugs should be used if you plan on drawing full power & make sure your alternator got a charge controller that monitors it's temparature because Lifepo4 can take so much charge that it will fry the alternator if the battery is low & the engine is at idle when the alternator fan is spinning the slowest.
Cute finish!
Glowe vs Jehu LETS FIGHT
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It's like Edison vs Telsa. Let's see which tries to electrocute an elephant first.
I think we should just ignore that guy. Most of his views are coming because of this channel 😂. Otherwise his videos do not even have 10 - 20views.
He could not even present a proper datasheet from the cell manufacturer when i asked for it and just posted some links to 3rd party sellers.
Very few makers can produce a high c rate Lifepo4.
Anr26650 and headway 8ah's are known industry wide for high discharge current.
He didn’t wanna share the specs sheet because he doesn’t want people finding out those are $13 cells
@@jehugarcia… ¿How many of these would need to make 96 volt EV?
great job as always
Excellent job❤️. Can use transparent battery box?
Great !!! Can you make a video about Charging the batteries ?
Hopefully the new Daly s series will be able to do the job on my 96 ah. It’s on the way will be finding out soon. Not running a huge system but still a consistent 5000watts
Need more of these in stock amigo
Keep up the good work 👍🏻
I need to either buy or build a 12v battery bank. I’m using it strictly for charging handheld devices and running my CPAP at night. I’d buy myself a battery specifically built for my CPAP but there’s not enough power to run it multiple days. So it’s either run my truck for hrs everyday to charge it back up or get a battery that can last the entire trip. I’m looking at the costs to build one vs buying a already built 12v battery and it’s looking like I’d be better off just buying a already built battery. For anyone that reads this and knows what should I do? I’ve already got a big ass ammo box that I can easily fit a 100 amp hr battery. I don’t need a sophisticated system I just plan on doing a simple 12v DC socket with a built in gauge and on and off switch.
Hello sir , I hope all is well. ! Grloweing lol😂😂😂😂😂😂
If you built 2 or 3 96ah batteries (or smaller)
Can you show how you would connect these together in parallel to achieve a larger overall bank ??
Just use cables, positive to positive and negative to negative, there’s not much to show
nice one for a transformer portable welder.!!!!
Hey Jehu I bought a few of the older 64ah headway pcb. Without the lugs. Is there any cons with the old pcb? I have 2 , 0gauge lugs are bolted to the battery And 1 charge cable from my alternator.
It works great for years but I’m now upgrading my amplifier from 5kw to 8kw and will be upgrading the 1/0 cables to 2/0.
Should I upgrade my pcb bus bars?
I'm kinda wondering what would happen if you added the all threaded connectors that allow you to screw two cells together on top of the bottom set of cells stack them and put the top plate on won't it give you a 24v battery?
Yes
@jehugarcia would be great for 24v inverters I just purchased one from sungold power. Do a video on that type of setup may help sell to a larger crowd. I just got my boards in and populated them with the headway cells I'm just waiting on 8 more cells to come in from battery hookup
Why did you choose headways for 24v
@jehugarcia I already had them for 12v system figured I might as well use them for power cart that I built for additional storage
What if you design a bar untop of battery would that work?
Next up : pcbway factory tour lol
Hi Jehu, are there any CMS available? (super) Capacitor Management Systems, for series connection, over voltage protection?
Ive only play with batteries so far
@@jehugarcia I understand, I guess I will make it myself
Quick off topic question. Ive watched several of your videos about using your PCB 18650 kits. On some of the stacks you mention using two of the BMS boards. Is more than one required for a certain number of units or is this just for amperage. IN other words, If I order the 25 pack, how many BMSs are needed? Thanks.
Depends on the load you want. 60A or less use 1 board 60A or more use 2 boards
Question on 2/3/4 connections. I see that your pointing to the area of connection between batteries. My question is do I just use a self tap screw with my ring terminal into the board itself or is that not what you mean and it connects to one of the battery bolts?
No don't use self tapping screws!!!!! use ring terminals on the screws used to hold the cells
Would these work with the 38120s headway cells
That’s what they are for
The 10ah ones
if there are the same diameter its the same thing
I just got my BattGo but it didnt come with cables or a plug. Where can i get that? Thanks!
i use this battery cell to power my power tools ?
I just bought one of these, using dc power supply full state of charge is around 17v, I have a mechman 390 amp alternator charges at 15v. This battery is doing good for my 10k watt sound system build, however it should be advertised as a 14v battery because charging at 15v it never gets past 20% state of charge according to the balancer. I am only using a portion of this thing capability, and my amps are only rated for 16v max so a voltage boosting harness is not an option, also their customer service wasn’t good, having a hard time talking to anyone. Questions about cold weather use
That’s incorrect these are LiFePO4 you are grossly over charging them at 17v. These are not nmc. Do not go above 15v or they will not last
@@jehugarcia
Do I need a different balancer then? I bought the balancer recommended on the listing for the battery
set the chemistry to LiFe
@@jehugarcia thank you seems like a dumb mistake but yes the chemistry was set to LIPO not LIFE, switched it over and all good state of charge was at 94 percent resting a touch over 14v! Thank you, final question what is temperature operation with this battery ? Do I need to worry about slow charging in colds months I live in WI ?
Do u sell them? I need 3 . I have 3 8k amplifiers
Make one massive pack with anr26650. They are even more capable cells than 8ah headways
Yeah but where can we get them cheap?
Active balancers are useless for LFP as long as they can't be turned on exclusively at high or low SoC. Any other time they are messing with the balance more than fixing it, as out of balance cells can have barely any difference in voltage during the plateau phase.
This is 100% correct, I have a balance board for my 16s lifepo4 I made off of the a123 26650 cells and because lifepo4 chemistry has 80% of it's charge at the nominal voltage a balancer does not balance until they're either at 10% voltage or 90+ and you can see the charge transfer on the Dalybms Bluetooth app. I have the leads connected at all times but only put the board on to balance when one cell drags.
@@luis789lr I have found similar results..... not really found a balancer active or passive that works well with Lifepo4.....
the active balancers "turn on" as the voltage of the cells drift. Its pretty cool. They actually are on all the time but only do the cell balancing if one cell starts to drift and then the balancer gets to work. once the cells are even the balancer is really not doing much and just in standby mode.
You can get different kinds of active balancers or even smart balancers that will operate outside of those ranges
Correct, I only use my 16s balancer to balance when one cell lags after fully charging because that's the time the balancer is most effective and when the voltage difference are more visible for it to work. Li-ion don't suffer from this because they have a linear discharge curve unlike our lifepo4 cells. One cell can be 30% soc while the other cell be 70% soc and have the same voltage.
Jehu …BMS .: no BMS what’s your take
Depends on the condition of the cells
@@jehugarcia so I was only asking because I’ve been using a balancer on the charge ..but with my recycled 18650 I also use the bat-go to just for the monitoring of the cells and it just been running no over or undervoltage
So at (8:08) explaining where the second wire goes, are you referring too the existing hole to make the connection?
Keren😍
you never leave that much bare copper without covering it with heat shrink - potential for arcing. NOT GOOD>
Cover it up