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Experience with Lithium Iron Phosphate Glider batteries?



 
 
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Old May 20th 16, 07:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Benedict Smith
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Default Experience with Lithium Iron Phosphate Glider batteries?

At 00:01 20 May 2016, Dave Springford wrote:
I have been using the factory installed Strobel solar system on my 29

with
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K2 batteries for the past 4 years without issue. The Strobel controller
wa=
s designed for Lead-acid chemistry and the K2's "can" be charged by
lead-ac=
id chargers due to their lower output voltage. That being said, the

13,75
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Volt output of lead-acid systems won't charge the LiFePo to it's full
capac=
ity that needs 14.6 V.


David,
Find yourself a good electronics hobbyist who understands charging
circuits,
it should be a simple job to tweak the regulator voltage so it fully
charges
your LiFe battery, (provided the circuitry is not encapsulated or potted)
however if you do this then CLEARLY mark it as modified because it will
potentially kill SLA batteries after a short time, if you were in the UK I
would
offer to look at this for you, however posting it to and from the US is
impractical.
Ben.

 




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