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LTO bank vs LiFeP04 for daily system
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<blockquote data-quote="hispls" data-source="post: 8801256" data-attributes="member: 614752"><p>My brother leaves his Civic up here most of the year and only drives it to the occasional show, LTO bank sets here 5 months of winter and fires right up in the spring. </p><p></p><p>32AH headway would probably be too little to charge with a HO alternator. Rated charge current is .5C ( so for optimum life you'd charge them at 16A) "max" charge current is 5C so even a 150A alternator would possibly be pushing those near their limit charging current. Discharge should be fine to cover 2500W or so. The LTO cells are meant to have about 5X the life expectency of LiFePO cells so I'd say over a 20 year timeframe LTO is going to be a better value even if you're paying almost double per amp hour. The one good point about the Headway is they have those cool ready made lego type blocks to snap a bank together and little jumper bars so assembling a bank should be cheap and simple. </p><p></p><p>Not sure where you live but LTO also has much better cold weather performance than LiFePO. Really unless you're getting a real bargain on the Headway cells there's no reason to take those over one of the proven LTO cells.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hispls, post: 8801256, member: 614752"] My brother leaves his Civic up here most of the year and only drives it to the occasional show, LTO bank sets here 5 months of winter and fires right up in the spring. 32AH headway would probably be too little to charge with a HO alternator. Rated charge current is .5C ( so for optimum life you'd charge them at 16A) "max" charge current is 5C so even a 150A alternator would possibly be pushing those near their limit charging current. Discharge should be fine to cover 2500W or so. The LTO cells are meant to have about 5X the life expectency of LiFePO cells so I'd say over a 20 year timeframe LTO is going to be a better value even if you're paying almost double per amp hour. The one good point about the Headway is they have those cool ready made lego type blocks to snap a bank together and little jumper bars so assembling a bank should be cheap and simple. Not sure where you live but LTO also has much better cold weather performance than LiFePO. Really unless you're getting a real bargain on the Headway cells there's no reason to take those over one of the proven LTO cells. [/QUOTE]
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