Lithium Swap
Originally uploaded by mikeysklar
My neighbor Davey had a little stash of lithium-ion batteries. I swapped him the batteries for a large 100lb deep cycle I've been desulfating for the last three months. Now I can rip apart these laptop batteries and start repacking my power tools with lithium cells. The advantages being longer runtime and lower weight.
2 comments:
What are you using for a battery charger? I've torn apart several junk laptop batteries and have the individual cells right by the computer but I have nothing to charge them with to find out for sure how good the indvidual cells are. I know a few of the batteries are showing full voltage, some are showing partial voltage, and some are flat out reading 0V. I don't know how long it has been since any of them have been on a charger so I can't really say for sure how good they are.
Di you make your own charger is did you actually find one somewhere? I tried looking around locally but couldn't find any that would charge lithium ion batteries.
I use a off the shelf all battery chemistry charger called he Eos 5i. You can find a large selection of these chargers at any R/C shop online. They generally cost between $60-$120.
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