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LiFePo4 Battery Install

LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Eight – Adding an additional switch to the discharge relay

October 11, 2019Matt 4 Comments

A quick update here – just to add an addendum to the LifePO4 series. No-one who is following this blog for travel reasons will find this interesting, but it’s an important point as I know several people use a 7713… Continue reading →

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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Seven – Installing the Inverter

June 3, 2018Matt Leave a comment

Part of the reason I was installing a LifePO4 bank (aside to move them into the cabin/save weight and space) was to be able to run things like electric kettles and electric induction cooking thingums, reducing the amount I’d have… Continue reading →

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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Six – Wiring up the batteries and the Orion JR BMS

January 19, 2018Matt 26 Comments

Now I had the mounting system, it was time to hook the lithium system up, including the LiFePO4 BMS. WARNING: I know I do this a lot, but this entry is heavy on the technical details and light on everything… Continue reading →

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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Five – Old mount was terrible, remount time!

January 11, 2018Matt 3 Comments

So as mentioned when I first figured out how to mount the batteries I wasn’t really happy with the first attempt, as basically all the batteries were kind of squeezed in with a rachet strap and weren’t very secure. GARBAGE, RIP… Continue reading →

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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Four – Top balancing the pack

January 1, 2018Matt 5 Comments

Well, after pulling out all the old wiring and running the boat off the DC charger as seen in the last part, the next step was to top balance the LifePO4 pack. I apologise in advance – even by the… Continue reading →

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LiFePo4 Batteries: Part Three – Removing the old batteries and installing the charger

December 26, 2017Matt 8 Comments

Sorry this third update took a while, I was travelling for work a lot and then got some kind of hellish food poisoning/stomach flu thing which took me completely down for a while. But now I’m back and BETTER THAN… Continue reading →

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Lithium Batteries: Part Two – Mounting the cells (first pass)

November 22, 2017Matt 6 Comments

Following on from the very high level design in part one, the next stage was to mount the 8 cells securely in a safe location. This actually took a while to puzzle out and as you will find out, I’m… Continue reading →

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Lithium Batteries: Part One – LiFePO4 design

October 26, 2017Matt 14 Comments

Ok before I start I gotta give a huge NERD WARNING, as this stuff is probably going to be of not much interest to virtually anyone. Except all 3 people building a LiFePO4 on their boat. So, sorry about that.… Continue reading →

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