Greetings,
Thought I would start a thread for my own build progress.
As anyone who has done this before, or has started doing this knows, this is a long process. I started on 23rd September dismantling my first laptop battery. Now on 8th October I have 14 laptop batteries left to dismantle (plenty more to come) and have salvaged 204 cells from 40 laptop batteries. Out of those cells 39 have been capacity tested and recharged and are labelled ready for service (RFS). I have started using some of the lower capacity cells to put some charge in to the cells that read below 3v so the charger will charge them.
Still waiting on my TP4056's to arrive (25 of them), 25 x 4 cell battery holders, the plastic holding thingies hat I ordered on 17th September and was only told yesterday that there has been industrial action in the postal service and as such have been delayed significantly...awesome, 3d printing it is. The PIP4048MSE will arrive next week so I am very much looking forward to that!
In order to get this project off the ground relatively quickly, I acquired some 6 volt 130Ah AGM batteries from work. They are reclaimed but still tested to about 125Ah capacity. The idea is to hook them up to the PIP4048MSE so I can run my PC's and pool pump off the batteries during the day and recharge at night off peak. The pool pump uses about 8Kwh per day so the more I can use off peak for that the better, plus I can add solar panels when I get them to run it off grid as much as possible.
Thought I would start a thread for my own build progress.
As anyone who has done this before, or has started doing this knows, this is a long process. I started on 23rd September dismantling my first laptop battery. Now on 8th October I have 14 laptop batteries left to dismantle (plenty more to come) and have salvaged 204 cells from 40 laptop batteries. Out of those cells 39 have been capacity tested and recharged and are labelled ready for service (RFS). I have started using some of the lower capacity cells to put some charge in to the cells that read below 3v so the charger will charge them.
Still waiting on my TP4056's to arrive (25 of them), 25 x 4 cell battery holders, the plastic holding thingies hat I ordered on 17th September and was only told yesterday that there has been industrial action in the postal service and as such have been delayed significantly...awesome, 3d printing it is. The PIP4048MSE will arrive next week so I am very much looking forward to that!
In order to get this project off the ground relatively quickly, I acquired some 6 volt 130Ah AGM batteries from work. They are reclaimed but still tested to about 125Ah capacity. The idea is to hook them up to the PIP4048MSE so I can run my PC's and pool pump off the batteries during the day and recharge at night off peak. The pool pump uses about 8Kwh per day so the more I can use off peak for that the better, plus I can add solar panels when I get them to run it off grid as much as possible.