Angry Andy
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- Joined
- Jul 3, 2021
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Hello everyone!
Not sure how i found this place....I have been searching on DIY battery backup for a little bit and now got an itch....So here I am.
Lets start with my background. I am a Union electrician by trade.
Voltage and current are my workday...so I am comfortable working around "hot" lines, I have respect for current; and have learned it the hard way.
I finally went solar on my house last year, and love the benefits of it so far....and I recently found out that I might be able to source used battery packs from handheld radios....
I hope to be able to open up the battery pack and hopefully find some battery gold.
Any chance there are people selling their test/rebuild stations or maybe renting them out for a few months?
Next week I will know exactly what battery pack are E-WASTE, and hopefully can give more info at that time....but I would love to know if there are people around that can point me in the direction of the battery recovery process. I assume someone in NorCal has the equipment I need and it might be sitting stable in their garage....I would be happy to share some of my battery cells once I get into finding out whats exactly inside the cells being thrown away.
Im not sure if I want to buy a crapload of testing/charging equipment if there are others nearby who already have it and are not using it......
Not sure how i found this place....I have been searching on DIY battery backup for a little bit and now got an itch....So here I am.
Lets start with my background. I am a Union electrician by trade.
Voltage and current are my workday...so I am comfortable working around "hot" lines, I have respect for current; and have learned it the hard way.
I finally went solar on my house last year, and love the benefits of it so far....and I recently found out that I might be able to source used battery packs from handheld radios....
I hope to be able to open up the battery pack and hopefully find some battery gold.
Any chance there are people selling their test/rebuild stations or maybe renting them out for a few months?
Next week I will know exactly what battery pack are E-WASTE, and hopefully can give more info at that time....but I would love to know if there are people around that can point me in the direction of the battery recovery process. I assume someone in NorCal has the equipment I need and it might be sitting stable in their garage....I would be happy to share some of my battery cells once I get into finding out whats exactly inside the cells being thrown away.
Im not sure if I want to buy a crapload of testing/charging equipment if there are others nearby who already have it and are not using it......