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llaind

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LTO battery teardown.
« on: June 18, 2021, 01:32:02 PM »
Had to do some maintenance on some super rare LTO batteries I've been using for a few years.

I took some photo's, thought I'd share for you all to see.

Couple of the cells had been expanding slowly for some time, decided it was time to do something about them. even with one cell down the raise in the other cells at full charge is still well within their range, due to the odd voltage of LTO cells.

out of the 4 banks i have, two banks had 1 cell 'pack' fail within the battery chain and 1 had 2 cell "pack" fail outside of the chain. indicating the swelling or fail of the pouch is something that is happening slowly since manufacture. the worst of the two cell packs in the chain were down to 1.08 volt and the other one was down to 2v while other cells in the chain are 2.55. this pack had swollen significantly and had put great pressure on the casing, causing it want to explode apart upon release of the tension, it's 3 parallel - 22 series array.. anyway here are the pictures..

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llaind

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Re: LTO battery teardown.
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2021, 01:33:18 PM »
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Re: LTO battery teardown.
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2021, 01:34:56 PM »
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different battery pack.

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Re: LTO battery teardown.
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2021, 01:37:49 PM »
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Removed the damaged cells (in 3's)

then bridged the gap.

I have a total of 10 sets of 3 cells fully working spare, need to extend their ribbon for reuse in a different slot, but for now bridging 2 cell pack out gave me the total voltage i needed as i had 2 spare at the ends of both battery packs.

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Re: LTO battery teardown.
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2021, 02:54:41 PM »
In case anyone is wondering what these are , lithium titanate oxide.  20C(poss.30) safe charge rate , up to 20,000 charge cycles. 1.9-2.4v nominal 3v max 1.75 critical low. 22 cells in  series with each cell containing 3 in parallel. they get a max charge of 62v (2.8v ea). the low cut off is 42v (1.9v ea) meaning the inverter connected to them can never over charge or drain too low in operation and if one cell dies the other cells don't get overcharged, maxing @ 2.95v. They are fire proof, they don't explode, they can be drilled through, crushed and will not catch fire and will work down to -30deg c.
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Re: LTO battery teardown.
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2021, 02:40:12 PM »
Expensive critters new... lead acid still wins on price.