With thanks to Gus, K5GMB, I recommend Will Prowse's youtube channel to inform y'all on solar power, as well as batteries. You can get a 50Ah LiFePO4 (Ampere Time or Eco Worthy) Chinese battery for <$300 on Ebay. They review very well for the price, with the caveat that they do not come with low temp circuits on the BMS, so you have to have good low temp protection on your charge controller to make sure you protect the cells. I also recommend spending less on the batteries and more on the charge controller. I plan on buying a Victron Blue Solar, as all of my cruising friends swear by them.
Ron KE4DRF On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 12:21 PM KJ Anderson via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd be interested in picking up a cheap battery as well. > > ------------------------------------------------- > KJ Anderson > 253-380-2636 > www.linkedin.com/in/scrumnerd > > -----Original Message----- > From: BVARC <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Westley Clavey via > BVARC > Sent: Saturday, September 4, 2021 10:04 AM > To: BVARC <[email protected]> > Cc: Westley Clavey <[email protected]> > Subject: [BVARC] lithium chemistry batteries for emergency power > > I subscribe to several listservers, but I believe the listing I saw was > here on BVARC about someone putting together a group purchase of batteries > that can be used to create emergency or field power supplies. My far too > efficient mailbox tool clears out messages after a month, so if it was here > I can no longer find the listing. If someone has any information on this, > could you send directly to me? ...no need to blast it all out again. > Thanks. > > [email protected] > > -- > Wes Clavey, W5WMC > > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.bvarc.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbvarc_bvarc.org&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce662324345aa4c18e4f608d96fb53bb8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637663646445284969%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=kJT8o7qsF77hjHFmjUcEu%2FdH7quSRWXGfCfQtSpCQXI%3D&reserved=0 > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fbvarc%40bvarc.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Ce662324345aa4c18e4f608d96fb53bb8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637663646445284969%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=CrJcu%2FCUgWZkFGc%2BLSHli%2BLdMWp5dILoQn9UHASOaes%3D&reserved=0 > > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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