Batteries in the video (affiliate links): Tycorun 12V 100Ah: www.tycorun.com/products/12v-100ah-lifepo4-lithium-iron-phosphate-deep-cycle-battery-for-rv-caravan-solar-marine-home-storage-and-off-grid?ref=h-cvbzfahsek Lossigy 12V 100Ah: amzn.to/3uo5Mkq Sokerdy 12V 150Ah: amzn.to/3unMYC0 Vestwoods 12V 100Ah: amzn.to/37xNu7u Ruixu Stainless Steel 12V 100Ah: ruixubattery.com/product/rx-lfp-12-100bs?ref=h-cvbzfahsek SOK 12V Internal Heated/bluetooth: www.currentconnected.com/product/sk12v100h/?ref=wp SOK 24V Battery: www.currentconnected.com/product/sk24v100/?ref=wp Other batteries I recommend: www.mobile-solarpower.com/lithium-batteries.html *Does off-grid solar confuse you?* Check out my DIY friendly website for solar system packages and product recommendations, and so much more! www.mobile-solarpower.com *Join our DIY solar community!* #1 largest solar forum on the internet for beginners and professionals alike: www.diysolarforum.com Check out my best-selling, beginner-friendly 12V off-grid solar book (affiliate link): amzn.to/2Aj4dX4 If DIY is not for you, but you love solar and need an offgrid system, check out EnergyPal! They will price out a system and get your house offgrid: energypal.com/diysolar/ *My Solar Equipment Recommendations (Constantly updated! Check here first):* 12V/48V Lithium Batteries: www.mobile-solarpower.com/solar-batteries.html Solar System Component Directory: www.mobile-solarpower.com/solarcomponents.html Complete 48V System Blueprint: www.mobile-solarpower.com/48v-complete-system-blueprint.html Plug-N-Play Systems: www.mobile-solarpower.com/full-size-systems.html Complete 48V System Kits: www.mobile-solarpower.com/complete-48v-solar-kits.html DIY Friendly Air Conditioner/ Heat Pumps: www.mobile-solarpower.com/solar-friendly-air-conditioners.html *My Favorite Online Stores for DIY Solar Products:* *Signature Solar* Offgrid One-Stop-Shop. Best Value 48V LiFePO4, Victron and Offgrid Specific Heat Pumps: www.signaturesolar.com/?ref=h-cvbzfahsek *Current Connected* SOK, Victron, Mr.Cool Heatpumps and High Quality Components: currentconnected.com/?ref=wp *Ecoflow Delta* My favorite plug-n-play solar generator: us.ecoflow.com/?aff=7 *AmpereTime* Cheapest 12V batteries around: amperetime.com/products/ampere-time-12v-100ah-lithium-lifepo4-battery?ref=h-cvbzfahsek *Renogy* A classic 12V solar store that has been around for ages! renogy.sjv.io/n1VjXx *Rich Solar* Renogy's biggest competitor! Similar products, but at a better price: richsolar.com/?ref=h-cvbzfahsek *Battery Hookup* Cheap cell deals bit.ly/2mIxSqt 5% off code: diysolar *Contact Information:* I am NOT available for personal solar system consult! If you wish to contact me, this is my direct email: williamprowsediysolar@gmail.com Join the forum at diysolarforum.com/ if you wish to hang out with myself and others and talk about solar *FTC Disclosure Statement and Disclaimers:* Every video includes some form of paid promotion or sponsorship. Some links on this youtube channel may be affiliate links. We may get paid if you buy something or take an action after clicking one of these. My videos are for educational purposes only. Information is subject to change/update at any time. Electricity is DANGEROUS and can kill. Be smart and use common sense :) DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, An affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com

I had no idea that you shouldn't series connect 12V batteries with heaters due to uneven loading. Very Cool and good to know!

Not a word wasted - its always a pleasure to watch a guru in the zone : )

Just for the record I've never fallen asleep while watching any of your videos.

Oh boy, a LiFePO4 battery showdown!! My favorite in videos! What, no Chins, Zooms? I have not watch this yet, cannot wait to!

I love it when people bring their pets to work and Will shows his love all over his black shirt, lol.

I'd love to see an updated version of this test! I was shopping around, and it appears that there's a new crop of "mini" 100AH batts with lots of features (bluetooth/hi-lo temp cutoff's, etc). But--I've never heard of any of them. Price point seems to be around $329-375.

Batteries are getting better and cheaper fast. If I were ding my power station project today I would probably not pop for the Battleborn. There are so many more choices now.

Hey Will, fun video. For some odd reason, I've always liked tearing things apart more than putting them back together. These types of videos are my cup of tea!

Because of your content you inspired me to start my solar business in South Africa 🇿🇦

Love the bulk tear-downs haha - good stuff! Sokerdy - Also bothers me when companies can't put "LiFePO4" correctly. It's not "LifePo4" or any other variant LOL. Probably just my OCD. And damn, that soldering job is crap! Vestwoods - That BMS is so tiny, I have a hard time believing that doesn't get super hot. Lossigy - Price went up $30 a few days after my video, was $370 - funny how that works... Also for the cells, you mentioned "who makes them" - they're GFB, seem to be good stuff! ^^ just random comments as I was watching

Would like to see a review of the new Renology batteries and how they stack up to SOK.

Will, you had me laughing out loud when you said that Riuxu must’ve fired everybody and got new employees. Thanks for the videos. I’m just getting into solar, and learning plenty from your videos.

I love watching you get so into tearing them apart to evaluate! Awesome information and gel as always. Thanks 🙏

Love your teardowns. I keep hoping Renogy will send you some of there new batteries, specifically the 200ah-bt version because those are the ones I took a chance on. On second thought maybe you'd find something bad and then I'd probably not be able to sleep at night.

You definitely know your stuff. It's always a pleasure watching your videos.

Thanks Will, very informative on build quality. Will be interesting to see if you do testing on capacity.

those vestwoods look like they'd be a neat option for a 12v cheapo off-grid situation

Great post Will. I appreciate you sharing your perspective on these units here.

Thank you, your prowess and diligence saves alot of people alot of time and money.

Simply another outstanding, information filled, fun video. Great to see the innovations and improvements taking place even though I built my own 12v 280ah battery system for our TT following your recommendations early last year. Thanks for all you do.

Thank you for the review and info on the Weize, I just installed 2 of them on my Toy Hauler

The way you descibe and teach this community is commendable and when i see something you reccomend, I pay great attention to that and it weighs heavy on my choice options! Thank you SIR!

I found your channel about a year ago, went back as far as I could and watched all of your videos that I could find. I've really enjoyed watching and learning about solar panels and LiFePo4 batteries. I'm a union electrician with 40 years of experience but nothing as far as solar. I really appreciate you and your channel. The one thing that I would like to know are the weights of the different sized batteries and solar panels. I'm toying with the idea of building a CLC teardrop camper and weight will be a major factor if I decide to pull it with my motorcycle. Keep up the good work.

I ran across your videos while looking for a kayak battery, you have a great channel!

You're a pleasure to watch and listen. Very articulate and detailed. Thank you for your work and happy new year 2023

Just finally decided to go with the SOK battery for my new 12 overland build,...thanks for breaking them down for us!

Got 4 Chins 12v 100ah off of Amazon for a club car golf cart a few weeks back. So far they're working great!

Love it when you tear part batteries. Great side by side comparison.

Thanks for looking inside these. For reviews like this it would be great to see summary tables at the end. Including: Tested capacity, features, dimensions, weight.

I must say you've have Help me so much getting all my comments together for my Tiny home off gird system. I just love how you take your time to explain everything. supper supporter

Arrived early! I want Will to know, he has inspired me a lot, I've changed many bad electric habits at home, shared them with family and friends alike, and deep dived into learning to start my own solar at home and spread the knowledge here in LaTam where most of us are poor but with Strong WILL power, thanks Will for sharing with all of us such amazing lessons both in energy and Life. Best wishes! And i hope to open a channel like you did but for Spanish public and help spread some knowledge hard life lessons of my own, good energy and love 💕

Great review Will! Loved the side by side comparisons!

I purchased 6 of the Lossigy a month ago. The company seems to make several batteries, basically the same, but some with added features. I have 4 yellow case and 2 black case. The first 4 we're around $330.00 each. In a week and a half they jumped up to $379.00. The black case I got for $345.00. They had pretty good ratings on Amazon. Supposed to have cold temp protection. The 6 are in parallel. We'll have to see long term, but for now they are working well running my Mom's off grid trailer.

Thank you for staying constantly informative!👍

Another great review Will, I would like to request you to comment on any Marine grade candidates for the off grid boating community. Generally we're going to be interested in quality builds and not necessarily need the temperature protection or even the internal heaters. Thanks for the insight regarding the heated batteries in series

I loved this format, what a fun video. Have a great day everyone, 😀😎☀️ from Wales U.K. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Interesting to see the different build quality. Thanks for sharing.

I been studying different batteries, solar panels and entire systems to find the best products. Been waiting on improvements in technology also.Thanks for your videos I know what to buy and what not to get. Watch your videos religiously and feel comfortable to build mine and know how to protect my equipment now. Thanks again for your hard testing!

Thank you for doing these types of videos! I cannot tell you how much I’ve learned from your channel Will. I’ve looked through your tear down list but there’s one battery missing and I hope you’re going to do a tear down on it soon…cuz I’m in the market now. The battery tear down I’d like to see is from Acoucou. They talk the talk but I don’t know if they walk the walk…and I don’t know anyone that has them (that’s why I’m turning to you the very best source anywhere on the web). Hey thanks again for the great education you’re providing!

I've never seen the inside of the battery shell. Great breakdown, thank you!

Never fear, your videos are not boring. I for one have learned a lot from your videos. please keep them up. And as for some company's improving, I believe it is cause of your up- front, honest, tear apart review’s. you do weed out the junk. and some of the “junk” have changed and improved there products. or at least the advertising / labeling. Your word carry's, and is heard.

Will That was excellent, I have been researching to set up my Overland Truck with Solar and the Batteries are insanely Expensive, until Now seeing your review. Thanks Mate

Thank you for this video, had my questions about these cheap batteries. Thank you for the reviews

Your info gave me more information than anyone else kudos

Good job! Good to see cheaper alternatives getting better!

Hey Will, I am a 55 year old man, I am a prepper and have a 6.4KW 12v battery system with panels and an all in one bms/inverter/charger made by Blue . blue something... I love your content on solar but you talked about your injury and your healing. in 2003 a doctor cut a nerve in my back doing a fusion. I have been on huge doses of narcotics for pain since 2003. I wanted to drop the narcotics and see how much was for pain and how much was for drug addiction after 19 years. My pain doctor refused to drop me and increased my morphine. I went to two more and they all said YOU CANNOT DO IT and one said he would help but no slow droop, just stop all drugs. NOPE! So I talked to my general practitioner and he said he would help. started in January 2022. Dropped 30mgs a day of valium instantly all at once because I use medical pot for that. Dropped 80mgs a day of Ketamine all at once because I hated how it made me feel and never liked it anyways. dropped 30mgs a day from morphine long release from 120mgs a day total, dropped 120mgs a day of Dilaudid all at once, dropped 20mgs a day of Oxycodone from 120 a day. DID THIS WITHOUT ANY PAIN INCREASE OR DRUG WITHDRAWAL!!!! We slowly dropped the rest of the morphine and got me to 80mgs a day of oxy and that is where I am now. I am exercising to strengthen core muscles I aint used in 20 years. I hope to get to 0mgs a day of narcotics but it appears maybe I will get to 60,gs a day not 0. When I got to 45mgs a day of morphine long release I had withdraw3als on that. so I used withdrawal meds and just stopped all morphine no more taper and in 3 weeks I was fine on withdrawals.... I want to thank my doctor of course for at least helping me try when no one would, they said I could not drop anything and look at me now. Most of my life back, I can do more and have way more energy. I WANT TO THANK YOU, YOUNG MAN, I DIDNT READ YOUR BOOK ON HEALING BUT I THOUGHT IF WILL CAN HEAL WHY CANT I? YOU ENCOURAGED ME TO AT LEAST TRY TO DROP MEDS, EVEN IF IT HAD NOT WORKED OR WORKED LESS IT WAS WORTH THE TRY AFTER 19 YEARS..... I AM BETTER, HAPPIER, AND HEALTHIER BECAUSE OF YOUR BRAVERY AND FIGHT IN BEATING YOUR OWN ISSUES. THANK YOU WILL, YOU REALLY CHANGED MY LIFE!!! Love the Solar content to buddy, I watch every video

I two of the 200ah Lossigy batteries I have been using for two months and love them so far. Thank you for the teardown video. It makes me feel good about my purchase. They were 659 each when I bought them and they have sense gone up $40.

Best solar channel on KZfaq. Appreciate you my man good stuff!

OMG. I was hoping to find out how the build quality of these batteries compare. What the differences are in BMS. Thanks for taking a multitool to these batteries. Exactly what I was thinking. You rock.

Will, I really like your videos. I am a full time RVer and have an old acid / Lead battery. Looking to upgrade . Your videos have helped educate this ignorant user. Now trying to decide 100 ah or 200 ah. Thanks again!

Love these videos man, getting my Vestwoods today

Thank you for your video. It helped me to purchase the batteries that I need. It is helpful that you address issues like temperature, which are very relevant where I live.

Love your videos... clear and unbiased... keep up the great work!

I love when you tear apart batteries & TEACH us (beginners) GREAT INFO (using normal language we can ALL understand) - truly honest review with No F'ing B.S. !! I'm still looking to convert my 48v golf cart from lead acid to new tech LiFeP4 & after this review I think I'll look into a SOK brand. THANKS FOR ALL GREAT INFO

So good, Will! Thanks for your effort!

your excitement in explaining things about Solar is so contagious, that makes me a fan and keep me watching, learning and have updates. Dreaming my own simple set up soon. More Power, Solar Power to you!

Thanks Will appreciate the input.

Ill say the name, Battleborn. Overpriced just like Apple and Harly Davidson, but some think they are better because they cost more. : )

The cat hair shirt rocks! Awesome review as always, thanks!

I can't wait to build my own battery, I ordered 4 300 AH cells for my first build.

Great video again dude. Would love to see you tear down the new renogy 100ah battery with bluetooth as i have the model before with the pouch cells to see how it compares.

I don't understand any of this, but just like linus tech tips, i watch it from start to finish.

Hey Will. Thanks for all your video man. It really helps a lot. As a full time missionary to the 22 Native American reservations in the state of Arizona, my wife and I and our 8 kids we live off grid and been learning a lot. A few bumps on our journey but we’re finally starting to get use to it. Then I ran in to your videos while looking for the best batteries for the money. You sold me right away, smiles. Now I can’t get enough of you. Thanks buddy. 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

Another outstanding video from Will Prowse!

Well, well, the battery market starts getting saturated, and we are getting cheaper and better ones. The manufacturers are watching what you said is what counts!

Great info...I can't wait until Will is doing tests and breakdowns on Sodium-Ion batteries.

DUDE! THIS IS AWESOME! I spend hours and hours on Amazon... Should I get this... what if it's crap.... This helps a lot!

That was a good way to knockout the review of them all. So many nice choices now. Because of your videos I learned solar and diy'ed my setup. A 6kw split phase growatt and 2 server rack batteries from signature solar. I got my panels from Santan. Thanks Will!

I love watching your videos, they are informative and you are one funny guy...your joks are on point. Keep them coming.

Great video! I only wish you would have give a final summary and recommendation. But I suppose I can review the video a few times and figure it out. Thanks!

It would be fantastic if I could find someone with your expertise that would do the same extensive reviews of sealed marine LiFePo4 batteries.

Just a consideration...people keep buying old (outdated) batteries instead of innovative battery because they don't know better and probably because old batteries had the time to be marketed/recommended/reviewed and therefore have a reputation that new ones don't have. I'm glad I found your channel, very good content! Thanks for your work!

I've been watching for a while now and my mother just had a Tesla roof installed with 4 powerwalls.... so I decided to build a UPS/ESS for my place. With the reviews and content you and others are doing it really is pretty strait forward. I breed Pythons for a living and have complete confidence there will be no power interruption to my incubator or my facility during an outage. Love all the work your doing.

Hey great video.I bought two lossigy 24v 100ah and the company told me that the cells were prismatic not pouch like the model you got would love to see a review for the 24v lossigy battery. Keep on with the great videos.

Thanks for the FREE website Will ! The info is awesome.

Found your chanel a few days ago. It is by far my fav chanel now. You also get to the point, you explain. You compare. You don't waste so much time promoting things and talking about a bunch of useless stuff. I just got handled a solar system. It's a few years old. However I can still use it as my starter and learn about solar more. I know good amount just not enough. I have 3 100 watt panels and 2 100amp batteries. They are the once that you can't get below 50%. So the batteries are the worst, but for getting panels, batteries, wires, controller, inline fuse and 300w inverter for free I can't complain. This is excellent chanel to learn about this. Batteries will be first thing I'll replace obviously. So this is perfect for me. Thank you for having a good chanel and actually about the stuff it's ment for. Everyone knows KZfaqrs who spend half the video promoting things or talking about a bunch of personal life useless stuff.

Love the review!! Thanks!!

As with many things, the more the market growths the more innovation comes along at a lower cost. We are looking at off-grid property, the home will have a 24 volt system for lighting and low power draws and a 48 volt system for the inverter. That way there is some redundancy so you don't loose everything if one system goes down.

Great review, thanks. I’m not sure why I didn’t see this one before. I stumbled across it whilst looking for a review comparing the 12v Vestwoods 100ah to the 12v Blue Nova 108ah. Interesting that in Europe internally heated batteries are sought after. Here in Africa most parts we are concerned about overheating.

Great video, I like how you explain stuff so good. Have you ever tested a Enduro brand LiFePo battery just wondering your opinion on them. Thanks

Thanks for your honesty.please keep it up

Thanks for the video Will.

What an incredibly useful video, thank you bud 👍

Wills' new standard for measuring cheap battery quality just has to be which one has the least spelling and grammatical errors lol. Great vid Will!

A battery of battery tests! Thanks for the run-down!

Great video and info! I ran into a few other "info" videos, where, it was just the channel creator talking, that's NOT what I consider information. Doing a good teardown and inspection always has more value and info than a creator just blabbing!

Solid, as always. I would suggest that in the future if you see two temp sensors in a battery, perhaps try chilling or heating them together. The second sensor may be functional, but perhaps is used in a different way than being able to shut down the current on its own. Example, in a clothes dryer there will be a cycling thermostat and then a high limit safety thermostat. One is intended to be cycled, one is not. If a digital control system is taking in two temperature probes, it could be doing several things that require both sensors to be exposed at once: 1) perhaps, like the dryer, one is a safety that is used only in the case of a fault with the other sensor. If this is true, and the digital controller doesn't recognize a fault with the primary sensor, it may ignore the one that seemed to not work. 2) if the sensing probes are wired in series and the controller takes a voltage sample from between them, as a voltage divider (like how fuel level gauges usually work), then exposing just one to high or low temps may not be enough to trigger the low or high temp cutoff. 3) probably a handful of other conditions I'm not going to think of So, might be best to try them individually and then test them together, in case either the controller logic or the physical wiring requires particular inputs. It's not likely that if the sensors are inside a battery pack that their values would be so very different as they would be with different extreme temp exposures (room temp versus very high or freezing temps).

Thanks Will for your battery reviews. I purchased an SOK battery and will be the only battery I'll buy for back up power very well designed I would have never known how awesome this battery is without your battery reviews. Now I'm trying to search for the best solar panel for the price or 1 solar panel that can charge 100ah SOK in 1 day would be nice

Great review. It sounds like the heated 24v SOK has the advantage of heating and 24V, versus two 12v heated in series - which won't heat at exactly the same times... it at least solves the heat/timing problem.

Awesome, informative video once again!! Thanks!!

The quality improvements since Current Connected has became involved with SOK as their US vendor shows. They are growing leaps and bounds over others by building a quality product at an extremely competitive price.

Great video Will thank you!

Dark humor whoa lol.. Great video as always. Thank you for going the extra miles

Thank you very much for the video Will. I have two 200ah Lossigy batteries in my motorhome for the last month and so far they are great. I went from AGM and these re-charge so much faster. Thanks for all of your knowledge.

Great video compression, and by the way, the SOK server Rack 100Ah 48v is now even under discount. The downside of all you can't get anything in Europe what was reviewed.

Love watching you Will. ty

Hey will Love your stuff please keep it coming! Could you please do a CANBAT review?

Very well done review! After seeing the quality of your review I had to subscribe! My take-away, I guess, is to go with SOK @ $630. I guess I need to buy some SOK 12V 100Ah batteries for my little Camper & Solar build. UNLESS they have a 3-400Ah 12v battery. 😎 I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos to learn more. Cheers, Eric

Excellent quickie review!