My experience 2012 110
I thought I’d chime in and mention my experience with both my ITech World Cranking lithium and rear accessory lithium batteries.
Im more than happy with them and have been running them for approx two years plus now. I’ve not had any failures on the road or in the bush, can drive a couple of thousand kms ie Tassie to Canberra and back with no problems or consideration.
My Redarc battery gauge shows around 13.5 to 14V as the operating charge and honestly, it just does what it’s supposed to do, with no issues starting my 6.2 V8 LS3.
Of interest the other day while reassembling the back end my vehicle with the stereo running, I lost all power to the vehicle from the main battery (alarm began sounding as it thought it was bypassed by crims) and thought to myself, “how did I blow a fusible link while not touching wiring”. It then dawned on me that I had the lithium start battery. I connected the lithium multi charger and yep, below 25%. I charged it overnight in situ and all was good in the morning.
It was interesting as they shut them self down with no warning due to the inbuilt protection software vs fading away and giving warning. I just re educated myself Re this quirk and am aware now.
Ive been doing lots of small (ish) jobs on the vehicle and it’s not been driven extensively for quite a while so I’ll cut the battery some slack due to this being it’s first issue since installation. The rear accessory battery just sits there doing it’s thing and powering stuff as needed with no issues. Its connected to a Redarc duel battery manager, I forget the actual unit but it’s not the lithium capable one though. The batteries are advertised to have their own inbuilt circuitry/software ability to accept charge from my ‘Smart’ alternator.
It may run against the accepted performance and theory limitations of Lithium in our application but again, I’m just discussing my actual owner/user experience with the iTech World products as fitted to my vehicle.
Im very happy with them both and while I’ll be watching the starter battery due to the failure the other day, I highly recommend them after two years until I’ve an established reason to find fault with them. If my starter fails again, I’ll get my charging system checked and if needed, revert back to standard in the front, but I’ve no reason to at this stage.
2012 Defender 110 (A silver one!)
Defender:LS3 6.2 V8 and 6 Speed Auto, ARB BP51 shocks, springs, Damper, Gwyn Lewis running gear, Superior Engineering Radius arms, Long Ranger tank, Recaros', Dual battery, LED lighting, ARB Lockers etc etc.
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