It's hardly going to be a 'rebuild'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saitch
Service, clean the carbys and.....well that's about it.
Colin
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It's hardly going to be a 'rebuild'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Saitch
Service, clean the carbys and.....well that's about it.
Colin
I have a couple of approximately 5 years plus mobile phones that I use as alarm clocks, but I noticed the batteries not even lasting a day, so I ordered a couple online, only to discover that despite the different manufacturers and model numbers they are the same, and then even worse they also only last a day! Old stock I presume, probably the same age as the phones.
5 yo mobile phones with replaceable batteries?? Where did you get them, India?Quote:
Originally Posted by RANDLOVER
But yes, I tried to resurrect a couple of quite good pocket cameras and an old camcorder with similar results. I actually suspect that the batts I got were second hand, even though the packaging was "new", but I did get them from fleabay.
They were little mobile phones that would fit in a shirt pocket from Colesworth. I'm still using them plugged into an external battery bank. One battery also came from fleabay, the other ordereed from a US website, but actually came from China.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tins
Recently I bought two 8Ah lithium (LiFePO4) batteries to replace two AGM deep cycle batteries.
Upon putting them to use, they didn't last very long so I put them onto my test jig which discharges batteries at a constant rate and records the current and voltage on a Mooshimeter Introducing the Mooshimeter | Mooshim Engineering
The rig shuts off at 12.6 volts for lithium (and 11.7 volts for AGM). It has a clock to measure elapsed time.
The results:
Battery 1 lasted 8 minutes, i.e., 0.48Ah
Battery 2 lasted 59 minutes, i.e., 3.54Ah
I sent my results (including graphs) to the supplier and they refunded me and said I could keep the batteries. Not much use as they won't even take a charge now.
So I decided to stay with AGMs and bought two 9Ah batteries from another supplier.
My testing (discharging at 20 hour rate = 450mA) gave:
Battery 1 lasted 13 hrs 45 minutes 35 secs, i.e., 6.192Ah
Battery 2 lasted 13 hrs 46 minutes 34 secs, i.e., 6.199Ah
I've sent the results off to the supplier and am awaiting a reply.
Do Chinese batteries get anywhere close to rated capacity?
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Re my post above about the batteries, I'm still working with the AGM battery supplier. Not successfullyt as yet.
However, with the lithium battery supplier, something else has occurred.
When I bought the batteries, I bought a matching lithium/AGM/standard battery charger.
Last night I put it onto my L322 to charge the battery. This morning I opened the bonnet and the charger had let out all the smoke - well, maybe not all as some had been deposited on the screen which was now blank.
I wonder if the charger had damaged the lithium batteries?
I contacted the retailer and they were very quick to get back to me and tell me to bin the charger and that they would give me a refund or replacement. One can't complain about that.
I can't recommend Altronics highly enough for their customer support for both of my purchases. Now if only the AGM battery supplier is as good.
My wife and I decided to buy a couple of new 10,000mAh lithium ion battery banks as our existing ones were down on capacity.
We saw them at Aldi for $20 so we bought two. Dhe picked up a white one 'cos she's a white woman, I picked up a black one 'cos of my heritage.
(They are $50 on Amazon.)
Hers charged and worked normally.
Mine wouldn't charge at all so had to take it back to Aldi for exchange. Why am I not surprised.
So if it's black - you do have to take it back? [bigsmile]Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
Acaia Ridge?Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
