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DISADVANTAGES OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
These batteries are not sustainable and they do not reduce your carbon footprint, this all false advertising.
The financial and environmental damage to manufacture these batteries are significant but for some reason, governments tout they are sustainable.
In Australia, a multinational Lithium battery manufacturer is required by the Australian Government to advertise the recall of their batteries becasue of the serious fire risk.
Another major well known name brand will replace any of their failed Lithium batteries just so they dont get any negative publicity, its their way of hiding the faliure of these batteries.
People and have been killed or permanently and seriously injured from exploding Lithium-ion batteries with more and more exploding or catching fire.
Once they have caught fire, it is extremely difficult to put out.
In most cases the building or car will be either totally destroyed or sustain serious damage.
More mis-information is about how much you can discharge them.
You cannot discharge 100% of the battery, you can only discharge 100% of the working voltage of the battery, which is around 12% of the battery.
They need to be replaced at least every 10 years.
There is nothing in place to safely and sustainably recycle lithium-ion batteries without losing money and as such.
They will be the toxic problem of the near future.
They cost an excessive amount of power to mine and manufacture.
Children as young a 7 years old are paid $2 per day in dangerous mining conditions to mine cobalt for Lithium-ion batteries.
The extraction process of lithium is very resource intensive and uses around 500,000 litre of water in the extraction of 1 metric tonne of Lithium.
There is signicant environmental damage to diverse ecosystems around some Lithium mines.
Lithium-ion batteries contain cobalt and manganese, which are toxic and can contaminate water supplies and ecosystems if they leach out of landfills.
Please do your research on these batteries, they are dangerous to us, the people we love and to the environment.
Below are Charge and Discharge information of our Nickel Iron batteries.
Below is a screen shot of our inverter's Input (charging) and Load (usage).
Remember each Nickel Iron cell = 1.2 volts.
12 volt battery needs 10 cells (10 cells x 1.2 volts = 12volts when connected in series)
24 volt battery needs 20 cells (20 cells x 1.2 volts = 24volts when connected in series)
48 volt battery needs 40 cells (40 cells x 1.2 volts = 48volts when connected in series)
If you connect the cells in parallel you will increase the amp hrs.
Example: 10(ten) x 100ah x 1.2 cells connected in parallel = 1000ah at 1.2 volts
Our system is made up of 40 x 1000ah cells connected to a solar system and the electricity grid.
As each cell is 1.2 volts we are running a 48 volt system. The inverter is set to operate a 48volt system.
The inverter automatically disconnects from the grid (daily) at 5.00pm and reconnects at 5.00am.
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