June 4, 20206 yr Hi, Although I've been playing with alternative energy for about 6 years now, I'm still much a rookie. My energy curiosity started when I went living in the bush in Malawi and its still going strong. Also doing courses every now and then. I have a million questions but this one is the most urgent. I'm about to go pick up some "new" lithium batteries from a dubious source and was hoping that there's some way of testing their battery life before I take them. Hope someone has an answer that I can understand and perform.
June 5, 20206 yr 10 hours ago, Zak said: some way of testing their battery life before I take them. Wow, that's not really the easiest. With lead acids you can get one of those garage load testers and see that it can supply a nice strong current, but with Lithiums I don't know. If it's a standard CAN.bus battery and you have the equipment you could read the SOH (state of health) from there, assuming that has not been tampered with of course... but I really don't know of any capacity test that does not involve a discharge cycle.
June 5, 20206 yr 9 hours ago, Zak said: I'm about to go pick up some "new" lithium batteries from a dubious source Welcome 🙂... but... as that statement reads it could also get you referred to the following for assistance Vodacom 082 241 9952 MTN Fraud Line – Call 083 123 7867 Bidvest Protea Coin Hotline – Call 086 101 1721 Telkom 0800 124 000 Cell C 084 135 SAPS 10111 Or e-mail have a look through here for context... 🤔
June 5, 20206 yr Author Thanks plonkster. From everything I've seen it's quite easy to test any 12v-24v battery with the garage testers but any tester that'll go higher than that is more than R100k. Guess I'll have to check the battery itself for any signs, and maybe the lcd also have something to say.
June 6, 20206 yr Zak, my best advice is also to read state of health info via a comms port. But that will have challenges of its own, as you surely understand... BTW: If you're the Zak I think you are, how's the Patrol going?
June 6, 20206 yr Author Thanks Christo, will keep that in mind. I understand, will have to setup the full system and have my comms device ready...and obviously have to understand what the output shows me. You've got the correct Zak and that Safari is going to outlive me the way it's going. Can't seem to break anything on it and I love the additional tech and lighting I'm adding to it.
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