[Elecraft] [OT] Note from a skeptic

[Jim Brown]

On 6/29/2022 12:57 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
> The dealer is honoring the warranty and a new battery is on the way, but I've become a LiFePO4 skeptic. I don't care for battery management system electronics that can fail where I can't get to them: sealed up inside the battery case.

I've been told that some battery assemblers provide only part of the 
required electronics to properly balance the multiple cells that make up 
the battery.

A 100 Ah Bioenne LiFePO4 battery has been running the two K3s on my 
operating desk for 6 years. It's floated from a repurposed Thinkpad PSU 
through a Genasun MPPT charge regulator.

73, Jim K9YC