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Nemo

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Hi All,

I've been digging through the forums here for months and the time finally came to get more involved. I caught "the bug" about half a year ago when I found out that you could salvage 18650s and build your own batteries. I'm a salvage nut already, but this presented something that I could manage with a limited time budget until the kids are older. I found this forum shortly after and recently started investing in gear to begin harvesting.

My end goal is to build an EV battery for a conversion project, but going to start smaller firstwith ideas for somecustom power tool battery builds, Powerwheels battery, and flashlight batteries to build skills while I build an inventory of 2000+mAh cells. I've got a BT-C3100 charger and already modified it as per suggestions here with additional cooling and a PCpower supply. Following Daromer's flow chart with the added step of discharging to 3.7V for long term storage. I have a source for cells but its more of a trickle as I'm in a small town, so I'm setting up fora marathon build. At this point I've got about 100cells for the big build and about 20 for the smaller ones, but I'm a patient guy, and there's lots to learn in the meantime.

There is so much great information on these forms, thank you to everyone that participates.
 
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