Thread: Battery weight loss program

Still want the batteries though!

Sounds great. Someone has to be the early adopter! In 5 years cars will come with them standard I suppose and they'll halve in price every couple of years, like most electronic trick stuff.

Hi bee utey, and I have a couple of customers using them as auxiliary batteries and the batteries pose some specialised problems that will need to be addressed but at this time the batteries are not as big a problem as some of the suppliers of the batteries are.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Most of us probably stopped looking at the specs when we got to the price.

They must be American. I don't think Americans understand the metric system.

Yeh, and they can't spell aluminium, or pronounce Solder and a million other things, Regards Frank.

Just out of interest, what sort of life expectancy do you think you will get out of the lithiums?

Braille Battery Co. - so called because that is what you'll need to learn after they have robbed you blind.

Originally Posted by ugu80

Just out of interest, what sort of life expectancy do you think you will get out of the lithium?

Hoping for 8 years..... Most batteries seem to give me 5-6 anyhow

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

lithium batteries wont generally fully recharge from an alternator.

but thats ok in practical terms the final few % that go missing are about the same % of charge that 90% of flooded cell batteries loose once their surface charge dissipates naturally.

I've often though of making up some NiMh packs I mean they use Nicads to start some aircraft.

I didn't think nimh coped with any sort of heat?