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1980 called, they want their lead acid batteries back.
How is the changing peramiters for years to do my job I needed 120 volts where non was available so I bought booster packs with a modified sine wave inverter bought one yearly as the battery wouldn't take a charge but getting them on sale it was a cost of doing business then came utube and the RVers are saying if you treat a sealed lead acid battery right it should last between 5 to 8 years keep them fully charged and do not discharge below half way well I have kept them on their automatic charger and I've never discharged them below 6 volts then came the shocker full charge is 14,8 and half way is 13,4 and dead is 12 volts that can't be right wouldn't the manufacturer know proper charging peramiters but I had a black and decker booster pack handy so I opened it up to find the battery manufacturers website and find out what they said but didn't have to as written right on the battery was do not discharge below 122volts and float charge is13,4 full charge is 14,8 and on the built in charger is output 12 volts no wonder the battery died checking out my other units all had the same problem watched a prepper video on nature's generator and it hit all the points I needed 2000 watt pure sine wave inverter solar and wind charging and sold by the big box stores so no sky high shipping but it had sealed lead acid battery so after many phone calls and numerous emails I got the charge peramiters and other information the solar charge controller was pwm and designed to take 2 or 3 days of good sun to
recharge to 12 volts once I found out I decided not to buy one as with other prepper chanel as long I am it worked when bought it got a great review build quality didn't matter so I'm going non grid tied low budget solar that means 120 volt AC only
So.. being a self made electrical engineer, slash mechanic, will make for good results.
this is the kind of hobby i want to have, but cant afford to have 😢
11:21 its kool ill just take Your word here😅
I may be in a class of one, but if they (I'm not sure who "they" are) decided to make an Aging Wheels channel (like the Disney channel, or the History channel), I would be watching it 24 hours a day! Ok, maybe not 24 hours a day, but at least 2.4 hours a day, sometimes binging to 4.8 hours a day. Yeah, I need to get some hobbies or something…
Next up eletric motor swaps 🤣
I would also add a
Bi directional Capacitive Active Cell Equaliser
to help Redistribute Higher voltage cells to lower voltage Cells Note this Works in Conjunction With the Smart BMS
Also The help in low Voltage Cell Events as A Emergency Cell Recovery
BTW yo can get Bi directional Capacitive active cell Equalisers With a Touch button (with jumper for A remote button) so They are only Active When needed and self Turn off when done
This is why I like gasoline engines.
So, you are telling me that it is easier to do all this than buying an ICE and filling the tank. JK. OK. Still an impressive bit of work. I'd love to see the schematics and parts list. I am a Ryobi fan, if only because I don't want 13 different batteries and chargers to wrangle. The solar battery system is something I have been looking into, LiFePO batteries are far superior to Li-ion. The main drawback I have found to COTS systems is than the solar panels are not weatherproof and you need to buy RV style panels. I'm already a subscriber.
I’d rather have lead acid batteries to be honest.
Easy to source, easy to replace & cheap !
If you wire in a shunt to a amp gauge that measures how much capacity you have used & you know the batteries capacity you should be able to extend the battery life by NEVER discharging below 50% of the capacity.
Once you drop below 50% then you will start to sulfate the cells.
Cheap plastic crap. I’ll keep my exmark for now.
Anker is a scum company. Wouldn’t attach your name to them
Funny. I was listening to this from the other room and I thought this was a Project Farm video. Your voice is pretty similar and since it was a mower video, I assumed it was him.
believe it or not but there is a smaller led acid 12 volt. i pulled it from a old emergency wall plug in flashlight, i think it might have been a Duracell too
horsepower is less important than torque in a mowing application. So while your 8 horsepower figure might sound really low compared to a 24 HP V-Twin, it's probably not as bad as it sounds. Electric motors typically have much better torque than their gas powered counterparts.
I've had mine for 3 years and mow 2 acres with no problems.
Why were you stupid enough to buy and electric mower?
This is what you get for buying a fucking electric zero turn…..
I live in a condo and I’m not sure why I watched the entire video.
You likely start to damage lead acid batteries once you start to drop below 50%, not 20. So you really only had 2.5 kw hours of actual usable power.
There is no blame here to push on a manufacturer. As the old saying goes, "Let the buyer beware". I get tired of people FOREVER complaining and endlessly blaming SOME ONE ELSE because of their own bad decision making. Oddly, it sounds EXACTLY like the very first blame in the Scriptures. Adam did a big no-no and then Blamed God for Adam's own mistake. Adam screwed up and wouldn't accept any responsibility. Yup! Sounds like typical human behavior to me.
Just think, all this just to spin 3 metal blades. (haha) Sound like the hunter that spent $60,000 on a truck, $3,000 on firearms, $14,000 on a 4 wheeler, $400 on a blind and then who knows how much on clothes and accessories just to shoot a $200 deer. Sounds right. And we laugh at other countries that use sheep or cattle to do it for them and they get the benefit of doing something with the animal when its time comes. A comparison of 1st world and 3rd world longevity. Interesting.
Ego batteries have active cooling in the battery itself, and they auto-discharge when left at 100% for too long.
Grab a scythe and get on with it!
I would probobly say that clumping all 3.6-3.8V lithium cells together is not that helpful. Specially since today its really only NMC and NCA that are really common, and the LCO that use to be common, is less so. With the same naming convention Lithium Phosphate is LFP and the last cell type that is really important is LTO
NCA is pretty much in all portable stuff, due to its high energy density. NMC is quite common in electric car due to it have a bit more longevity than NCA, LFP as described in the video, very accurate, and LTO is the one with most longevity, mostly sued in industrial application and commercial electric or hybrid vehicles.
If you wan to to do a dirt cheap battery replacement. Just put contacts for normal tool battery on the machine. I done it with all of my electric machine that used lead battery. Sure, i don´t have a ride on mower. But it would probobly not be a problem. Actually, ryobi sells a machine just like that
I remember when I bought a rechargable electric razor. I got home, went to charge it. In 2 hours it wasnt done. In 4 hours it wasn't done… I took it back and got one that had lithium ion batteries. To be honest I forgot nickel metal hydride batteries existed, couldn't believe they were still being sold since they should have been required to be labeled noticably as such back in 2010, let alone 8 years later. To be honest they should probably be illegal by this point.
Well in hindsight you didn't spend $7000 bucks for a new mower when there was nothing wrong with the current mower just the stupid decision on using lead acid batteries.
It would have been cheaper hauling it to the junkyard where it belongs.
I love the fact that Ryobi has the option to repair and says nothing about it being possible. Their 18v tools are very much the same.
Like the milwaukee m12 platform, i chose the ryobi 40v platform andhave many of ryobis 40v tools. So when i saw the new ryobi 40v zero turn mower which i beliexe requires at least two 40v batteries, i wanted it. I have like 21 40v batteries. However i nearly had a stroke when i saw the price. Not worth it. I will wait to rebuild someones used machine at a much reduced price.
Just how complicated can we make a lawn mower? A Briggs and Stratton and a couple of hydrostats is all you need.
16:15 that was tough to watch, seeing Ryobi on Ryobi violence is very sad :'(
Yeah for that price, I'll keep my 15 year old Allis going lol
Why on earth would you buy anything made/sold by Ryobi in the first place? It's the very definition of a junk brand.
@ Robert
Did you see the channel called "Guy Martin Proper" just posted a video (i haven't watched it yet) titled something about building a trabant racecar. Guy Martin is a legendary isle of mann tt rider and all around awesome dude. Maybe take a look, or not. Right on, have a good one.
Ryobi will never change
I like watching this guy because it makes me feel like I could do anything. Like, sure, I'm a fuck up, but we fuck ups can do great things.
Awesome project! One of the biggest differences between lithium iron phosphate and lithuim ion is the voltage behavior. The voltage of a lithium ion cell is pretty linear with state of charge but lithium iron phosphate has a flat selection in the middle. This makes it hard to determine the state of charge between about 30% and 70%
"I call it the positive feedback carriage"
It hard to believe you spent $5000 on a unproven mower it’s even harder to believe you spent $1500 more chasing it down the rat hole. In comparison I purchased a 42” rear bagger craftsman tractor with a cracked plastic gas tank for $250 removed the plastic tank welded up a steel tank and we’re good to go.
Your first mistake was buying a battery powered riding mower. Your 2nd mistake is putting another 1,500 into it after 2 years of service. My gas powered zero turn has been in operation mowing 5 acers at a time for the past 12 years and it runs like the day I bought it on less than $150 maintenance for 2 years. Even at these high fuel prices I spend less than $300 in gas to mow 5 acres for 2 years with a 26HP engine and a 60" mowing deck.
Why not put ardupilot in his thing and call it a day? 🤔
Have a look at the motors and controllers. They may be rated for a higher voltage. So you can tune it by increasing the battery voltage 🙂
I'd say more like "below 50% SoC you damage lead acids" as that's where the cycle life starts to drop off. Also, in the last several years I have noticed many companies who care far more about segmentation than reputation. Ryobi's reputation is mud in my country, they never recovered from the absolute garbage they were selling in the 1980s and 1990s. I do like the nice touches of construction but that isn't for you it's for them. Maybe they don't have to train the assemblers in their factories so much, certain to make them quicker and therefore cheaper to manufacture. As is the "one bolt for everything". Anyway, good video from you as always. All the best Sir!
or just use a good old 24 hp v twin gas engine. The battery capacity is ENORMOUS! It is called "gasoline", and it holds so much energy! AND it is half the price, AND dosent get all weird when you are down to 1/10th capacity! NEATO!
Any chance you could make a recommendation for the drop in replacement batteries you mentioned at the end of the video?