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Old 03-20-2015, 01:35 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by CPseudonym View Post
Have you ever seen what these guys go through to convert a sailboat over to a Lipof4 battery?
Yes! But least there are a bunch of marine installations of LiFePO4 battery banks now, and some accumulated experience about how to operate them.

Do you know of any Firefly Oasis installations on boats? I haven't seen or heard of any.

This is a company that has gone bankrupt once. They have a technology that looks good in a press release, but is missing some pretty important details, like: what is the proper charging profile to use for these batteries? The spec sheet's data is footnoted "*Proper installation and charging required", but there's no indication anywhere of what proper charging is. It looks to me that if you install these, you'll be experimenting as much as if you had installed LiFePO4's.
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