Charger for Lithium Battery

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Watch your chemistries, because lithium-ion and lithium-iron are two different things. (ETA: And they are selling both kinds now.)

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I installed a Shorai battery in my bike and bought their charger, I have been happy with it. This battery is the same age when the original battery started to struggle and it shows no signs of slowing.

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I have a Shorai and use a Battery Tender charger with a lithium-ion setting, it's a 4 amp.
 
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I changed my Bipolar Transistors on my auto battery charger. The power contribution of Bipolar Transistor is the result of load current and voltage distinction as of now said. While charging 6V auto battery this power achieves a greatest of 40W. The rectifier diodes must have the capacity to convey 4A at 40V. Bipolar Transistors must be mounted on a decent heatsink keeping in mind the end goal to scatter the warmth.
 

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https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Tende.../dp/B01K87YZ3C
Ah geeze. If I had seen that it would be in my kit instead of the 5A AGM/Flooded/Gel charger that I got a few days ago. I'd exchange it but I tossed all the packaging!

I don't have an Li-Fe battery but have thought about getting one when the time comes. (Air temperatures around here would seldom if ever be a problem.)
 

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I have been using the Shorai for years I do use their charger and it gets cold here you just have to turn the key on and leave it on for a minute before starting it warms the battery. Its a bit counterintuitive leaving the key on with the ST but it does work.
 

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SteveST1300 said:
you just have to turn the key on and leave it on for a minute before starting it warms the battery.
Good to know! I think I'd read that you'd try to start the bike a couple of times to warm the battery before it would catch fire. (The bike not the battery LOL)
 

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