Creating my single biggest . battery with 2800 18650 cells recovered from used laptop batteries
want to jump straight to it being installed and used?
[ Part 1 ] You’re here, and hopefully enjoyed it enough to continue down the list?
[ Part 2 ] Finding out the battery build isn’t legal |
[ Part 3 ] Addressing safety |
[ Part 4 ] Fixing leaky cells and a low voltage battery |
[ Part 5 ] In this episode I finally get the battery completed and ready for service, also incorporated my 100,000th subscriber video! |
[ Part 6 ] Final capacity test and guess what PART ONE thumbnail was SPOT on! |
[ Part 7 ] IT IS BEING USED FULL TIME,
I’m building my best-ever DIY battery! It’s 48v, 500 ah when tested from - , and has 25kwh of usable storage. I took 3000 cells ranging from 2300mah to 3400mah and sorted them into 50mah capacity ranges. Taking 14 cells from the 3400 range, then 14 from 3350 range, then 14 from the 3300 range and so on, to build an equally balanced DIY Battery. The lowest capacity battery used ended up being 2450 mah. After building the battery with ’s fused nickel strips with 10mm2 copper wire as busbars I tested each 193p battery with the iCharger X6 to get the AH of the completed battery capacity making the average cell 2600mah.
For more info on how I made it to this point to build my battery check out this playlist -
Key Components used in this video -
🔵 kWeld Spotwelder -
🔵 Used Laptop Batteries -
🔵 Batrium - Watchmon5 & MM8 -
🔵 HeatShrink & cell holders -
🔵 Hydraulic Crimper -
🔵 iCharger X8 -
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🔵 BatteryHookup USA -
🔵 BigBattery USA -
Official forum thread with all the extra details to fill all the gaps -
👍 Total Project Cost -
👍 18650 wall mounts -
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Learning resources -
🔖 DIY Lithium Batteries-
🔖 Mobile Solar Power Made Easy -
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Thanks for tuning in as always!
Pete
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