Temgot have updated this discount code: You can use 058XX5YA at both www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTBQFLDX and also www.temgot.com/products/temgot-12v-100ah-lifepo4-battery-with-bluetooth-deep-cycle-lithium-battery-with-100a-low-temp-self-heating-bms
No speciel snowflake chargers required ? No accounts on the app required ? Very well put together manual ? Dayum, this battery is well worth the cost and unsure whether those are genuine Sodium Iron Batteries and hopefully they are genuine!.
Hi Rinoa, I've just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Although I don't usually comment that much but I want to let you know that you're the most down to earth person and your videos really motivate me as an electrical engineering undergrad. I watched some of your Parked Thoughts series and it really helped me get through my day. All in all, although my writing is kinda clumsy, I just wanna say that your channel meant more than just view counts and it really has an impact on me. I'm sorry for what you've gone through your past life and wishes the best. Sincerely
I always love watching your videos - even if it's something on a topic I know very little about, I find your approach to videos very re-assuring and open and informative.
Nice video Rinoa,, you need your self a playhouse, where you do not have to take stuff down/in every day 🙂 I have also done some LiFePo4 battery videos,, non with a cool display like that one,, but some bigger once,, in video 1343 I had to get a 280AH 30KG battery up my "mountain" Yes I bought a house in Portugal with a mountain or a slices of a mountain. But I have been making an internet station on the top of the mountain (I get poor inter net at the house,, as the mast is on the other side of the mountain,,I fix that with a solar setup and some router stuff 🙂
Oh dont worry, I will be able to mount these panels on my workshop when we get a scissor lift. The roof is like 8 metres tall haha. By the way its great to hear from you. I saw one of your videos about the lifepo4 battery a while ago and had no idea you bought a new house. Very cool
In any case, I appreciate the discussion. I am an electronics technician in the aerospace sector. I love looking deeper into electronic theory and analyzing how things work.
YEA ! LIPOFE4 CELLS CANT TAKE STR8 RAW POWER RIGHT FROM THE PV MODULE LIKE THE LEAD ACIDS WHICH IS NOT SO ALSO BECAUSE OF THE BMS CUTTING THEN OFF FROM AT A RATED THRESHOLD . BEST TO USE A CHARGE CONTROLLER FOR LIPOFE4 BATTERIES OR PROGRAM IT AS BEST AS YOU HIGHEST CAN WITH THE RECOMMENDED CHARGING VOLTAGE . MAY THE SOLAR BE WITH YOU .🤗
I remember a time when Tesla was announcing super chargers, and they had that Solar Powered station that fed the charger and excess back into the grid. Every time I see a super charger station that goes online, it is ALWAYS plugged into the grid with no solar... What happened there? I am not an electrical engineer, but I mean... come on, there has to be a way to make a super charger system that will allow you to do exactly that. Setup a solar panel type cone/area around the charger that gets solar energy or something like that, then uses that power to charge the station. Like... what?! Isn't it like 12 panels you need? You can do that over a car park. Anyway, this is very cool, and those battery packs look amazeballs. Seriously. 10/10 Would Recommend. +1 Sub.
I know in silicon valley we had issues of people complaining that the solar panels looked ugly and filed complaints, and then mostly the biggest issue is it becomes excruciatingly difficult to get licensing for it in some places when its really just there for aesthetics. It works out way better to just have the panels on a mountain somewhere else than to have them in the city sometimes I worked at an EV startup for a short time in sunnyvale and we worried about those issues back then too People with their rules get in the way a lot.
Yup, lot of people didnt get the comedy reference in that, I guess society is just too stupid. But now I get people saying I mispelled “Travels” so hey americans end up being idiots anyway
Stranded wire works better in DC applications. It’s thought that the electrons travel on the outside of the conductor instead of in it. Solid core works well in AC applications and can use both solid and stranded very well. That is why you won’t see solid core in commercial DC applications (with the exception of jumper wires)
I feel any difference is negligable because the wire still wasnt having any noticable voltage drop over it and it was free. So I think itll work. I’ve also seen a lot of engineers mostly decide to use stranded core just for mechanical properties. Unsure on how big the electrical difference really is
for my workshop solar solution I had a similar problem with cables, they can be expensive to get decent sized cables- luckily at the very same time one of our local cheap shops had a deal on sets of car jump leads, I bought 3 sets of jump leads and that wired the whole lot up a lot cheaper than just buying the cable, plus I have all the huge battery clips that I cut off the ends just waiting for a use. so if you see cheap car jump lead sets, then you will have a decent thickness wire. (even if they are too cheap to use for starting a car, they will be great for solar systems
Yeah the solar system I built years ago in this series used jumper cables, but it ends up most of those cables are mostly rubber and only a little copper
I bought welding wire and different size lugs and made my own wires very thick all copper and you can make any size you need . Much cheaper than buying pre-made cables.
A friend of mine has a 671 Detroit diesel gen set from the 1950s I,am lusting over I believe it will put out 480 3phaze ,it has the small lights to match the hz ,I want to hook it to my shipping container
Love that that app needs no account. So annoying when manufacturers force that crap on their customers to use their product. The prices for these batteries are really reasonable.
The MS Paint logo is great. Could some of this be integrated into HomeAssistant with a raspberry pi? That could potentially eliminate the need to have the app open to get historical data.
always stoked to see soar sundays!! since you're interested in lower power possibly smaller pcs you should consider trying to get a "review unit" lol mini ryzen or even intel based PCs from someone like minisforum, geekom, NiPoGi or one of the many other companies making mini PCs at the moment. I've seen youtuber "iceberg tech" cover a few of them that they recieved for free, and they're a relatively small channel (50k subs, and around 10-30k views per vid), seen lots of other channels doing vids on tiny PCs lately they've recieved for free recently tbh.
I think I'm going to lean towards Apple M1 eventually since it seems to do better than X86, and I do have a little i3 NUC from 2016 to play with at least.
That would depend upon how cold your weather gets. If you can wait a little bit, sodium-ion batteries look to hand deep freezes better than almost anything. LiFePo4 would handle long usage really well, but maybe add insulation to help keep them from freezing in winter. For an e-trike you might be better off making sure you get an impact-resistant battery such as one from an electric car. Nissan Leaf cells would be fairly cheap.
Initially, the BMS didnt like it but it took me a few days to get my MPPT controller out. I would have rather charged the cells directly since the BMS gave issues and would fry once it got past 15v but oh well I got past that
X86 hasnt improved a whole lot since my i7 was released, so itd be better to switch to ARM at this point. Modern CPUs are still only about 70% more capable so I plan to wait a bit longer. Also many modern X86 cpus have gotten worse with power usage
Anderson connectors are expensive lol i need 2 pairs and its as much as 120 pairs of 60 amp connectors lol maybe i should run a few of those in parallel
@@RinoaLif there is not a blocking diode, that would explain why your battery kept switching between charging and discharging. I think there may be some redundant blocking diodes in the charge controller.
I’m meaning for the other batteries Ive used with it that didnt have a BMS, I didnt notice a current draw from it however maybe it was just bright enough out to have voltage equilibrium
@RinoaL No unfortunately I didn't, I only played ARR through Heavensward, but I occasionally watch creators who do play current stuff. I don't know much about before ARR... That scene of the battle (where it falls iirc?) is what got me to get into FF14, I think it was part of the trailers for ARR? unless I'm totally confused about what I'm thinking about, which is always a possibility!
When I lived on my sail boat for six years, all my electricity came from three solar panels and 4 marine batteries. It felt so good living with free electricity!
Temgot have updated this discount code: You can use 058XX5YA at both www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTBQFLDX and also www.temgot.com/products/temgot-12v-100ah-lifepo4-battery-with-bluetooth-deep-cycle-lithium-battery-with-100a-low-temp-self-heating-bms
No speciel snowflake chargers required ?
No accounts on the app required ?
Very well put together manual ?
Dayum, this battery is well worth the cost and unsure whether those are genuine Sodium Iron Batteries and hopefully they are genuine!.
Hi Rinoa, I've just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. Although I don't usually comment that much but I want to let you know that you're the most down to earth person and your videos really motivate me as an electrical engineering undergrad. I watched some of your Parked Thoughts series and it really helped me get through my day. All in all, although my writing is kinda clumsy, I just wanna say that your channel meant more than just view counts and it really has an impact on me. I'm sorry for what you've gone through your past life and wishes the best. Sincerely
Awe thank you very much, that warms my heart to hear
I always love watching your videos - even if it's something on a topic I know very little about, I find your approach to videos very re-assuring and open and informative.
You can cold weather draw lithium as long as its below .2C charge profile to amp hours.
So a 600ah bank you can draw 50-120amps at -10c
LiFePo4 is different from lithium-ion though, you get weird electroplating (if I understand right) happening under freezing point for these
@RinoaL sorry I meant lifepo4 at low C draw you can discharge at below zero
@RinoaL there's some new research on it the new electric cars have current limiting if the battery pack gets below a certain temperature
I see, thanks for the clarification. Thats interesting to know and good to know
@RinoaL yes because I have a 600ah bank of lofepp4 on my sailboat without a bms lol just a mppt charge controller and my inverter has a 10.5v cutoff
Nice video Rinoa,, you need your self a playhouse, where you do not have to take stuff down/in every day 🙂
I have also done some LiFePo4 battery videos,, non with a cool display like that one,, but some bigger once,, in video 1343 I had to get a 280AH 30KG battery up my "mountain" Yes I bought a house in Portugal with a mountain or a slices of a mountain. But I have been making an internet station on the top of the mountain (I get poor inter net at the house,, as the mast is on the other side of the mountain,,I fix that with a solar setup and some router stuff 🙂
Oh dont worry, I will be able to mount these panels on my workshop when we get a scissor lift. The roof is like 8 metres tall haha.
By the way its great to hear from you. I saw one of your videos about the lifepo4 battery a while ago and had no idea you bought a new house. Very cool
In any case, I appreciate the discussion. I am an electronics technician in the aerospace sector. I love looking deeper into electronic theory and analyzing how things work.
YEA ! LIPOFE4 CELLS CANT TAKE STR8 RAW POWER RIGHT FROM THE PV MODULE LIKE THE LEAD ACIDS WHICH IS NOT SO ALSO BECAUSE OF THE BMS CUTTING THEN OFF FROM AT A RATED THRESHOLD . BEST TO USE A CHARGE CONTROLLER FOR LIPOFE4 BATTERIES OR PROGRAM IT AS BEST AS YOU
HIGHEST CAN WITH THE RECOMMENDED CHARGING VOLTAGE . MAY THE SOLAR BE WITH YOU .🤗
Sure it can, but the BMS cant
That battery is pretty sweet I might pick up a few of them
I have 6 of them and have been working on them for half a year, and they all work well. No issues so far. Especially like the screen.
Nice battery we need to change battery chemistry for a better cheaper, faster charging and a non lithium battery have a great day.👍
Sodium-ion seems promising, however the issue with lithium batteries tends not to be the lithium, its all the other elements
I remember a time when Tesla was announcing super chargers, and they had that Solar Powered station that fed the charger and excess back into the grid.
Every time I see a super charger station that goes online, it is ALWAYS plugged into the grid with no solar...
What happened there? I am not an electrical engineer, but I mean... come on, there has to be a way to make a super charger system that will allow you to do exactly that. Setup a solar panel type cone/area around the charger that gets solar energy or something like that, then uses that power to charge the station. Like... what?! Isn't it like 12 panels you need? You can do that over a car park.
Anyway, this is very cool, and those battery packs look amazeballs. Seriously. 10/10 Would Recommend. +1 Sub.
I know in silicon valley we had issues of people complaining that the solar panels looked ugly and filed complaints, and then mostly the biggest issue is it becomes excruciatingly difficult to get licensing for it in some places when its really just there for aesthetics. It works out way better to just have the panels on a mountain somewhere else than to have them in the city sometimes
I worked at an EV startup for a short time in sunnyvale and we worried about those issues back then too
People with their rules get in the way a lot.
Rinoa Super Genius...
Yup, lot of people didnt get the comedy reference in that, I guess society is just too stupid. But now I get people saying I mispelled “Travels” so hey americans end up being idiots anyway
Stranded wire works better in DC applications. It’s thought that the electrons travel on the outside of the conductor instead of in it. Solid core works well in AC applications and can use both solid and stranded very well. That is why you won’t see solid core in commercial DC applications (with the exception of jumper wires)
I feel any difference is negligable because the wire still wasnt having any noticable voltage drop over it and it was free. So I think itll work.
I’ve also seen a lot of engineers mostly decide to use stranded core just for mechanical properties. Unsure on how big the electrical difference really is
Another great video. Thanks!
for my workshop solar solution I had a similar problem with cables, they can be expensive to get decent sized cables- luckily at the very same time one of our local cheap shops had a deal on sets of car jump leads, I bought 3 sets of jump leads and that wired the whole lot up a lot cheaper than just buying the cable, plus I have all the huge battery clips that I cut off the ends just waiting for a use. so if you see cheap car jump lead sets, then you will have a decent thickness wire. (even if they are too cheap to use for starting a car, they will be great for solar systems
Yeah the solar system I built years ago in this series used jumper cables, but it ends up most of those cables are mostly rubber and only a little copper
I bought welding wire and different size lugs and made my own wires very thick all copper and you can make any size you need . Much cheaper than buying pre-made cables.
Super excited for sodium batteries!!
Same!
A friend of mine has a 671 Detroit diesel gen set from the 1950s I,am lusting over I believe it will put out 480 3phaze ,it has the small lights to match the hz ,I want to hook it to my shipping container
Love that that app needs no account. So annoying when manufacturers force that crap on their customers to use their product. The prices for these batteries are really reasonable.
The MS Paint logo is great. Could some of this be integrated into HomeAssistant with a raspberry pi? That could potentially eliminate the need to have the app open to get historical data.
It all depends on if this BMS has an API you can use.
always stoked to see soar sundays!!
since you're interested in lower power possibly smaller pcs you should consider trying to get a "review unit" lol mini ryzen or even intel based PCs from someone like minisforum, geekom, NiPoGi or one of the many other companies making mini PCs at the moment. I've seen youtuber "iceberg tech" cover a few of them that they recieved for free, and they're a relatively small channel (50k subs, and around 10-30k views per vid), seen lots of other channels doing vids on tiny PCs lately they've recieved for free recently tbh.
I think I'm going to lean towards Apple M1 eventually since it seems to do better than X86, and I do have a little i3 NUC from 2016 to play with at least.
Could you test this on a washing machine cycle?
No because I dont have a washing machine. I plan to make an open source one though
ope! I knew about your open source plan and didn't realize you were without a working unit. 🖖
hahaha no problem
Only if the inverter does not kill itself when the motor starts...
Inertia is a problem from the wet close and water 😂
Do you think these batteries would be good for an E-Trike?
That would depend upon how cold your weather gets. If you can wait a little bit, sodium-ion batteries look to hand deep freezes better than almost anything. LiFePo4 would handle long usage really well, but maybe add insulation to help keep them from freezing in winter. For an e-trike you might be better off making sure you get an impact-resistant battery such as one from an electric car. Nissan Leaf cells would be fairly cheap.
@@RinoaLWell, I don't have the trike yet, but it does get into the 30's and sometimes 20's here. What do you think of the 400 watt panels?
Are you charging those without a charge controller? I presuming this function is being replaced by the battery’s internal BMS?
Initially, the BMS didnt like it but it took me a few days to get my MPPT controller out. I would have rather charged the cells directly since the BMS gave issues and would fry once it got past 15v but oh well I got past that
i want a playlist for Solar Sundays
I guess i never made one huh?
You need a faster CPU. To reduce\compress my videos I like to use the older version of Windows movie maker. Are you in the UK..?
X86 hasnt improved a whole lot since my i7 was released, so itd be better to switch to ARM at this point. Modern CPUs are still only about 70% more capable so I plan to wait a bit longer. Also many modern X86 cpus have gotten worse with power usage
Anderson connectors are expensive lol i need 2 pairs and its as much as 120 pairs of 60 amp connectors lol maybe i should run a few of those in parallel
No blocking diode on that panel? 😱
I think the diode is hidden since I havent had them pull any current
@@RinoaLif there is not a blocking diode, that would explain why your battery kept switching between charging and discharging. I think there may be some redundant blocking diodes in the charge controller.
I’m meaning for the other batteries Ive used with it that didnt have a BMS, I didnt notice a current draw from it however maybe it was just bright enough out to have voltage equilibrium
I just ordered this battery and there is no indication of this of this battery having a built in heater 😠
There are different versions, one without heater and one with, and another they say is smart, unsure which is what. Might be best to ask the seller
Final Fantasy 14 crops up in the weirdest places :P
Been a part of my channel since 2010, it's all the other places that are weird. I was the only one with ffxiv for the longest time lol.
@RinoaL MY apologies! I only recently found your channel (as in this month!)
Very interesting and easy to understand :D
No worries. Did you play before Dalamud fell?
@RinoaL No unfortunately I didn't, I only played ARR through Heavensward, but I occasionally watch creators who do play current stuff. I don't know much about before ARR...
That scene of the battle (where it falls iirc?) is what got me to get into FF14, I think it was part of the trailers for ARR?
unless I'm totally confused about what I'm thinking about, which is always a possibility!
Yup you got it right.
You’re using solid core wire? 🤦♂️
Yeah its fairly good for high current, do you have any reason to not use solid core wire?
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When I lived on my sail boat for six years, all my electricity came from three solar panels and 4 marine batteries. It felt so good living with free electricity!