05-19-2025, 02:06 PM
(05-18-2025, 07:26 PM)Mildog Wrote: Heads up li time is teasing a “big” flash sale in the next few days so register with them watch for flash sales. They usually have pretty significant deals for a short window of the “flash sales” I hit mine a few months back on one I found them for quite a bit less than the everyday price and less than they are now!
Ive been reading up on and watching videos to learn more about lithium life po4 batteries, charging methods etc…
***One thing to consider lithium battery users if you have Bluetooth monitoring which is a nice plus,
You should consider monitoring charge state and don’t recharge to 100% every trip
Life po4 are most efficient between 20 and 80% charge and seeing where not always recharging will add life to the battery .
So if only using 10-20 % might consider going two or 3 times before recharging and maybe charge to 80 or 85% then every so often charge to 100% to help with balancing. When at rest or stored it’s is said it is best to store them below 100% charge.
Here’s a you tube video to watch.,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1tAYH_G1bk
This is what's so crazy , I bought a Weize 100 amp Life po4 a couple years ago , and read thru the manual , saying store at 100% . But have read several times , as well as this thread to store at below 100% . So I did store mine this past winter at 100% . I checked it here recently ,and it's still at 100% .
Hopefully I haven't messed up the lifespan of it . Have not had a chance to use it yet this spring . I will also practice the charging every other time or so .I had always got into the practice of charging up my AGM's after every use . Again hopefully my bad charging practice's have not messed up the battery . Time will tell I guess . The battery has seen very little use so far .