Molicel P42A cell discussion

I’m looking to have the same battery and bustin board with Torqueboard DD motors. I’m around 175lbs and am wondering what type of ranges ill get on paved bike trails going 25-40kmh. You have any rough estimates? I was hoping to hit 35kms of range.

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Can get 647x NEW P42A direct from Moli Canada.
Shipping them to Germany is too expensive. “US$ 1,525 (duty, VAT, fees included)”

As they are from 2020 I get them for a special.

Maybe here in the forum with shipping domestic US someone is interested in these P42A ?

Just bought 50, and measured initial voltage. Below is distribution, not what I expected.

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Interesting! Thanks for posting that.

That’s a great (and tiny) distribution IMHO.
About half of the cells are are in the lowest voltage set with none below that. This means all of the cells were self-discharging at the same rate as the main group or less…a good thing. This makes it easy to create packs with known self-discharge rates and that allows easier design of a BMS tailored to compensate for those known self-discharge rate differences.

(Edit) I agree with @Skyart too…that voltage spread is nothing.

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So 10mv is the largest difference? This is like nothing to worry about, less then nothing. In the thousands of cells ive gone through the largest difference to date is 11mv for me ever.

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Can anyone point me in the direction of a legit supplier of these cells? These are very expensive (or sold out) in Australia. Looks like the only place I can get them is Alibaba, but not many mentions of Alibaba in this forum. I guess they are much easier to source in the US.

Does this place look legit or no?

Yi-Fang Alibaba Store - Molicel 21700

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Getting cells to Aus is expensive as fuck.

The only place to get them in Aus is Vapour Eyes or Vape Traders (their parent company).

If you buy from anywhere other than an authorised vendor, you risk buying duds.

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Thanks for the links. Figured it would be a crapshoot. Still, I’d be willing to test the waters on a few small test orders.

Have a test batch on the way. Anyone in Aus have the gear to load/capacity test these?

@Kram720 if he ever comes home from his never-ending holiday.

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if y’all are still looking for some molicels down there in aussie land hmu :eyes:

Deleted two posts. Had weird IR on cells 1 and 12. Thought it was possibly fake cells. Turns out it was my unorthodox charging technique. @Stealther It’s a PITA to get cells down here for sure. I hope I’ve found a couple good suppliers, but it takes weeks to land them via slow boat from China.

We have an authorised molicel reseller here, it’s great.

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