10S Battery Questions

[kfred]

Sweet! There’s a teardown video for these packs that show more details on the nickel strips:

NEC Energy Solutions A123 LiFePO4 Batteries, Cell Harvesting (Battery Hookup)

Also another thread here discussing it:

A123 LiFePO4 Cells - the iron man’s battery

Collecting the discussion about the A123 cells here in order to keep the forum tidy. The A123 LiFePO4 batteries at Batteryhookup are currently at $50. With shipping they end up costing $1.29 to $1.69 per cell (depending if you buy one or ten packs). I did some digging and figured what these were exactly used for: As backup power to write data to persisten storage before shutting down in these devices: “The VNX8000 uses two 2U dual 2.2KW Li-Ion standby power supplies (SPSs) with removable bat…