Battle Born (and possibly Transporter Energy) battery problem

[colinm]

I'm not sure if that videos says, but he checked the original battery and it didn't have the plastic 'spacer', so it seems not all these batteries are made the same.

 

[merl]

I'm not sure if that videos says, but he checked the original battery and it didn't have the plastic 'spacer', so it seems not all these batteries are made the same.

No, he doesn't mention that in the vid I linked to, I've never seen an alternative build method and thought that they'd always been built with the plastic spacer, have you got a link?

 

[gasgas]

If it really overheats and catches fire you had better be at least a mile away. For one thing the fire cannot be extinguished, and it takes a long time to burn itself out plus of course the motorhome that it is in. If you breathe in the smoke the acids in the smoke dissolve your lungs. If you have a LiFpo battery and see or smell any smoke, run for the hills. Up wind as well.

 

[gasgas]

Reminds me of one job I had. Telephone Exchange Construction. I built bus bars which supplied 80v at hundreds of amps (or was it thousands?) to lots of racks of Strowger equipment. The bus bars were copper, one inch wide and a quarter of an inch thick. When I had to join one bus bar to another, first I would scrape the joint area clean with emery cloth. Then coat each area to be connected with a conductive paste. I don't know exactly what was in the paste, but it included bits of conductive grit to bite into the copper surface. Then the bars were bolted together - but as it was a long time ago I can't remember if it was copper or brass nuts and bolts I used. But they never overheated and nothing ever caught fire. That positive terminal connection method is a lot worse than appalling.
. . . . . .now I must search youtube for the make of battery I have fitted . . . . I know it's not that one. Trouble with all these Chinese ones like I have, is that they are all made in the same factory but get different labels slapped on them.
We are so used to the good quality we get with regular lead acid batteries that we are assuming that the lithium ones are the same . . . . .