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Batteries! They're in everything! Laptops, phones, cars, shavers, and they're great but what if you want to use them for something else? Turns out a wrecked Nissan Leaf is still good for a powering appliances and if you wanna do that kinda thing this is the thread for you. If you're interested in giving batteries a second life to power your home or make a backup battery generator lets figure that out in here. Or if you actually know how to do the drat thing then come here and tell me what the deal is on how to do it. I was asked to make this thread from several people in the climate change thread so in order to keep this one open, lets keep our climate dread and lmaoing out of here.
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Second post saved for possibly useful information in the future.
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Lately I've been looking at buying a Goal Zero Yeti lithium since it's an all in one sort of thing and I liked the portability of it but it's kinda pricey. If someone has good guides to start with I'd appreciate it. Right now I was looking at buying a decent lifepo4 battery off ebay but was hung up on the management of it. I know with a lead acid I don't need much but with lithium I'm not sure how necessary a BMS or charge management for balancing the batteries and how to power it off a wall.
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StabbinHobo posted:one thing i can never figure out about these EGO and Goal Zero products is how do you get it so that you can simultaneously be charging them with a solar panel *and* running some load off them. I actually came across this article a while back on someone who decided to power his apartment office with a setup like you're describing. This might be handy for you: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/05/how-to-go-off-grid-in-your-apartment.html One interesting thing he did was splice some cables to make diy DC lightbulbs.
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I go back to this site pretty often. It has some good info I think. https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/lithium_based_batteries
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beep-beep car is go posted:I mean, it's not like I drive my house, couldn't I get (realatively) cheap sealed deep cycle lead acid batteries and use those? I guess the question is are lead acids actually any cheaper. My understanding is that lead acid batteries are cheaper but also can't be discharged as much as a lithium based battery can. This means it has to stay in that sweet spot. They also need to stay with a tender to increase the lifetime where as lithium batteries can be left untouched for a while and they retain their charge well without hurting the lifetime much. If I'm wrong please correct me since I'm not an expert.
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I put in a lowball offer on a Yeti 1000 on eBay and to my surprise they took it so I'll post some pics and info/experiences with it when it comes in.
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I came across this video recently and thought it was pretty decent. Might interest some of you in here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewkj875qUmk
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Finally unboxed the Yeti 1000 I ordered and initial impression is that it's very well put together. It's currently charging before I start messing with it and I'll try to run a few things off of it and report back but if anyone has any questions I'll answer best I can.
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