Joey Kendrick
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- Mar 9, 2018
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Hey all,
I picked up a 5.3kwh teslabattery out of a 2016 model s from a local guy for $300 yesterday. It has 4 bad cells in it, but the rest of the cells test good and it's sitting at 23.7v currently. No water damage, it just had some impact damage in the corner that caused a couple cells to go bad.
Now I have 1000s of cells from laptops batteries and hundreds of laptop batteries sitting in a box that I still need to go through. I had purchased thosefor ~$0.05/cell, with more on the way. So I have no shortage of cells for my powerwall build already.
So the question is, should I sell the Tesla battery since they sell for so much and just use the profit on other things (I.E. buy more batteries for cheaper), or incorporate it in to my system?
I'm leaning towards the selling side. What do you guys think?
I picked up a 5.3kwh teslabattery out of a 2016 model s from a local guy for $300 yesterday. It has 4 bad cells in it, but the rest of the cells test good and it's sitting at 23.7v currently. No water damage, it just had some impact damage in the corner that caused a couple cells to go bad.
Now I have 1000s of cells from laptops batteries and hundreds of laptop batteries sitting in a box that I still need to go through. I had purchased thosefor ~$0.05/cell, with more on the way. So I have no shortage of cells for my powerwall build already.
So the question is, should I sell the Tesla battery since they sell for so much and just use the profit on other things (I.E. buy more batteries for cheaper), or incorporate it in to my system?
I'm leaning towards the selling side. What do you guys think?