thanks for showing this seller, LFP batteries (the cells) continue to drop in price over the last 4 yrs.

I find the info about batteries changing shape as they get used fascinating especially given the force figures you were quoting. Maybe with the next set you could integrate a load cell to measure the stress rise as you charge and discharge the packs. Stay safe!

I watch Andy’s channel too, I don’t even have a solar setup or a battery systems and I still find it interesting!

So cool! I've been wanting to pickup some of these. No idea what I'll do with them, but I just love the tech and the idea of running something in my home off free energy.

Hi Julian, those are some nice looking cells - I had no idea about pre-forming LiFePO4 cells - thanks for the info!

running my first project with some similar and i m quiet happy . they deliver average 80% of their capacity and i need em for 50% of their load capability . . when compressed em (not much) .. they performed +15% as for capacity but when torqued a bit more than spec about to 5,5 N per nut .. the voltage beween cells was stabilized and i gained my final 3.6kw clean used energy not measuring the losses from inverting for 16s with safety parameters on bms and on normal test!!! lets see after a year with some more tests... /// they dont need to be compressed hard.. you just need to avoid bloat em.. i let em sit fully charged slowly for 15 days i think and not a single bloat.. but dont risk it... keep em under 70% as long as you didnt make your pack !!!! my pack is 16s btw ./..I BOught same woud as yours to finish my box and added a plexiglass to prevent shorts from above

At last, a use for my pet elephant!

Julian, there are hundreds of videos on youtube about LFP cells - Will Prowse is probably the best source of info and teardowns, Lithium Solar, Ray Builds Cool Stuff, David Poz Compression is done using threaded rods and metal plates. Bus bars should not be flat - they should have a hump which will bend to relieve stress on the terminal posts.

Keep in mind at 3.4V a LFP cell is 100% SoC with no load/charge, exactly already at 3.37V. The datasheet says up to 3,65V but with a charge current no lower than 0.05C - which is 5 Amps here! Everything else is overcharging - resulting in bulging probably!

On some battery teardown vids, the manufacturer simply compresses them with friction welded strapping. Looking forward to part 2

Don't underestimate some tape for compression. Fiber packaging tape and kapton tape are amazing at holding compression.

Good in of itself, but by the time you add all the paraphernalia, you may as well buy a ready-made battery.

Are they real Eve grade a cells with valid QR code?

I would have expected the iR to be much lower, as the EVE 105Ah cells I work with have an iR of 0,32 mOhm, measuring around 0,35 mOhm. Your cells also look to have a top M6 20mm steel pinol screw which is perhaps press fit into the alu plate welded on top of the cell, essentially making a sandwich with the busbars on top. We went away from that solution and instead first screwed and later welded busbars directly onto the battery terminal, both solutions using a steel M6 Helicoil inserted directly in the terminal under the busbar. Torqued nut set to around 4Nm.

AFAIK cell compression is only usefull during the first one or two charge/discharge cycles. And since these cycles should already be done at the manufacturer there is no real advantage in building a compression rig yourself.

Its a big step taking a lash up on a bench and putting together properly into a conventional battery case. Lots of construction engineering to do and attention to detail. You cant just throw it all in a shoe box and expect it to operate reliably and safely - year in year out (and in a mobile platform like a golf cart). Think of a car and how we all take for granted the way auto electrics are put together - decades of user experience goes into to that level. Notice the basic 6mm "Lucas " pattern push fit spade terminals - they work under arduous conditions all over the world. Been thru all that, took me a month of triple care. I would now be very suspicious of cheap charlie drop in batteries used to replace AGMs. you are just buying a black box with a wish and a prayer.

5:46 I recommend using a car screw jack to compress.

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Quite funny and quite useless job of compression! Typically you will use 4 threaded rods (Gewindestangen) in M6 or M8 and compress the cells between 2 solid plates of hard wood or aluminium etc. I have exactly the same cells directly from EVE but without these M5 bolts, just M4 holes in the contacts.

from my understanding and seeing alot of professional using these batteries, there is no use in compression those battery. you cannot use enought force and its mostly useless.