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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    I can only imagine what I am missing under the ignored content.
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Manufacturers know that there are systems out there that will work off the bat, and that there are those that won't. Some alarm systems will keep sending you battery low notifications for no apparent reason as an example. Manufacturers know that most consumers are not going to have the...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Use cases that did not work involved people following internt fundi advice, contrary to the manufacturers which don't know anything about their product according to the fundi , and buying cheap B grade LifePO4, or inferior LifePO4 - which incidentally 70% of consumers are buying. Additionally...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Janee -- You can routinely discharge your LifePO4 battery to 5%, subject it to 15V and pay 10 times the price of an SLA battery to get 80% of the capacity, amongst other things without any harm. Good luck.
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    We get a ton of calls from dissatisfied customers who followed advice such as yours - who find that the device they are using does not charge their LiFePO4 batteries in the way that such internet experts advised. You assume constantly regarding damage to the battery. It is far more complex than...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Your recommendations are contrary to that of most battery manufacturers, apart from voltages and discharge curves there is desulfation and float charges, along with turning on/off equalization modes of chargers- all of which you suggest is BS. All on the back of building a single DIY battery...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Well then so be it -- it initially cost us a lot of money, but it doesn't anymore -- if that's the consequence of BS - so be it.
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Unfortunately, we have practical experience of our assertions across hundreds of different customer use cases. As such we aren't changing our recommendations to our customers, and neither getting into hypothetical debates. Our customers are free to follow online forum expert advice, to their...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Actually we are suppliers, so it's in our interest to sell batteries, not discourage their use. Its online information like this that leads to customers experiencing problems that lead to expensive losses. We will continue to advise our customers to follow the instructions in their devices user...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    It is very likely that you will find a warning in your UPS manual that states that you should only replace the batteries with the same kind of battery. 50% of my customers have got away with it, the other 50% ended up with damaged batteries - as a result we do not recommend this as a solution...
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    El-Cheapo UPS Battery replacement: Can I use Lithium (LiPo)?

    Firstly what inverter system does he have - and secondly, what is charging the battery in case it's not done by the inverter?
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