Can a Li-Fe-Po4 Battery be used for the SG Machine?

[James McDonald]

Hi All --

Can a Li-Fe-Po4 battery be used for the running the SG Machine?
This one web site claims you can use the same Lead Acid battery
charger to charge them.


http://www.all-battery.com/LiFePO4_SLA.aspx

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-- James

[aln]

Hi All --
Can a Li-Fe-Po4 battery be used for the running the SG Machine?

Yes, on both sides of the machine.

[Gary Hammond]

Yes, on both sides of the machine.

John Bedini told us at the last conference that the new LiFePo4 batteries don't like being charged with pulses. That's one of the main reasons he developed the linear regulator circuits for all the chargers and the new one for the SSG.

These batteries will work fine on the front end, but need a steady rate charge to recharge them if I understood correctly!

[James McDonald]

Hi Gary --

Thanks, for the information. I was wondering if the high voltage spikes from the SG machine
would damaged the LiFePo4 batteries. I guess the primary side use would be okay if you don't use
the SG Machine in Generator mode. So the Linear Regulator add on to the SG Machine will allow the
charging of LiFePo4 batteries due to its a steady state DC voltage.

-- James

[aln]

I remembered Peter or Aaron say that they were ok in a video, I'll have to find it now. No argument with JB, I will retract my statement until it is verified. Aln

[Tom C]

Lipo4 are an interesting animal. 1/3rd the weight of an SLA, not as toxic to the environment as a lithium ion, they have a fixed charge rate, supplying more current does not make them charge any faster, they just sit there..... they don't like pulse charging it turns them into a baby rattle (ask me how I know) they run at their rated current till they reach voltage cutoff, then they just STOP. like a lithium ion battery does in a laptop.

Tom C

[aln]

they don't like pulse charging it turns them into a baby rattle

Tom C

Thanks for chiming in tom