hispls 5,000+ posts
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Interesting, are we certain these are Toshiba? If they're 3-5 years old used how do we know how they've been used? Seems to me that for that money I can buy brand new A123 cells from China, get batteries that'll definitely last 3 years 2-3000 cycles, save weight and have a higher C rating.... all without having to deal with the oddball 2.4V cells.
Plenty of people use those cells for various projects but the C rating isn't very good for our purposes if you're not way over-sizing.We havent tried these yet. Weve tried tenergy and headway. Someone out here did just make a large bank tho. I'll let you know how it holds. I believe he has it on 2 dc 5k
If nobody knows somebody who knows somebody who can get legit Toshiba cells I think I'm going to go out on a limb and test some Chinese LTO cells and see what happens. I figure worst case scenario I can flip them on eBay.... not like car audio is the only thing people build their own battery cells for these days... in fact I think between electric bikes, cars, and various meme energy storage applications, we use a very small fraction.