The 7 Best 12v Trolling Motor Batteries

Minn kota trolling motor power center, just because it says for trolling motor on it. I’ve also got one of these on my starter motor in the back of the boat. Now I probably bought about eight of these. In the last 10 years, I’ve owned different boats, uh sold them bought. Another boat bought two more of these, and usually, whenever I sell a boat that has these in it, you know the new owner always wants to keep them.

So I got to go out and buy another pair. I just bought this boat here a couple months ago and of course decided to buy two more of these power centers for this boat because I really enjoy having them and they’re fairly useful. Now, on top here, you have a test button. It will actually tell you the charge of the battery. Now I didn’t really think I was going to use that function much, but I have used it quite a bit over the years now, if you’re out all day long, you know using your trolling motor, you got a depth finder up there as well.

Maybe you have an electric anchor uh. You kind of want to check to see where your battery’s at throughout the day, especially if you’re on a big lake, you never know when your big motor might not start so you need the trolling motor to get back to the dock. It’s really easy just to check this. You know maybe you’re moving around a lot and you have an electric anchor and you’re using that quite a bit, it’s nice to have that test button there.

On top, I actually use it more than I thought it would now. It does have a breaker for the trolling motor or whatever it is you’re hooked to this, and it also has a breaker for this cigarette lighter adapter right here, so you don’t have to run inline fuses for your battery cables with this built-in breaker uh it does work. I think I’ve tripped one of these in the last 10 years now.

Another cool feature could be my favorite feature. I’m not sure two cigarette lighters adapters on both ends. Now, maybe you think I’m never going to use that. Well, let’s say you catch a big fish. You turn your phone on. You want to take a picture phone’s dead. You know, hopefully you’ll realize once you get out on the water that hey, I need to charge.

My phone just have a little phone charger with you plug that right in there charge your phone up just like that, because you never want to catch a big fish and not have a picture of it. I’ve done that once in the past, and once only the biggest bass I’ve ever caught in my life, my phone was dead. I’ve never caught one that big again, but my phone is always charged now for sure.

So you have one of those on each end, and maybe you don’t want to use it for a phone charger. You can use it for something else, gps or just about anything that has a cigarette lighter adapter. Now. Also this this battery box is a hair bigger than the standard. You know you go to your local angler shop or a farmer fleet wherever you get your battery boxes, they’re about 15 bucks just that standard one.

This is a little bit bigger than that standard box. It’s a little bit taller a little bit wider a little bit longer. So if you have a super tight space for a standard battery box, this is probably not going to fit because you have to account, for you have maybe three quarters of an inch of handle right here as well as far as height goes now.

As far as cable routing goes, you know your standard box, you’re gonna, have your cables all run inside up. Underneath the lid, uh, cable routing just looks a little nicer, it’s a little bit easier and let me unbuckle this here comes with the buckle and with the uh hold downs, to hold the strap in place. What you do you put your battery inside there and it has cables coming out of the lid right there and you just connect to your battery.

Put your lid on. I know you don’t have a bunch of wires coming out of your battery box. It’s just a little bit cleaner installed. It looks a little bit nicer for like say, you’re going to sell your boat and you got a couple of these in the boat uh. It just looks a little bit nicer for the next buyer. They think you know, hey he’s, got really nice battery boxes.

He probably really took good care of all his equipment and the boat. It’s probably going to help. You sell the darn thing as well price wise. I only buy these when I see them on sale, I can usually get them for 59 dollars that we have a local store here that normally like 79 and every now, and then, as I walk through the fishing aisle and I’ll pick up a lure here.

There I’ll take a glance at these and see what they’re priced at and, if they’re, on sale for 59- and I I don’t have one- I usually pick one up, so we spin it around here to this side. You can see this side and there’s the back and there’s that side and they’re they’re very durable. I’ve never had one, not work where you know something didn’t work on it.

Everything works and the actual plastic is probably twice as thick as your standard battery box that you’re going to pick up at bass pro cabela wherever I’m talking about the normal standard battery box, that’s like 15 bucks or whatever it costs. You can just tell that the plastic is much thicker, it’s much more solid on the side and it has a carry handle on top and also has the handle still on the side.

So if you think that you know this thing is going to help you out as far as your fishing style or, like I said, the the car charger ports on it, the built-in breakers, maybe you’re, wiring up a new trolling motor or new depth. Finder, you don’t need the inline fuses just makes for cleaner. Wiring looks better in the boat, but if you don’t really care that much about you know aesthetics, that’s probably the the main key kind of ingredient to this is the aesthetics, nice, cable, routing, nice, looking battery box, and I think some of the best feature on it is the car charger ports now someday.

I’m going to sell this boat, maybe the next boat I buy doesn’t have these in it I’ll probably go out and buy two more once you once you can use these uh. You realize well, these are a little bit nicer than I thought you get a little spoiled and then you always want them. Hopefully you guys found this review informative and helpful whether it helps you decide whether you don’t want them or do want them.

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It’s actually quite simple: what I’ve used is a minn kota trolling motor power center inside the minn kota power center. I have placed a vmax 125 amp hour battery. It is a agm deep cycle. It does not give off any gas, you don’t have to add any water or anything like that to it. It can be mounted in any way. So I’m going to show that to you, but I want to let you know. What’s inside there, it’s a beast. One of the reasons that I went with the minn kota power center is on each end.

It has a built-in 12 volt cigarette, lighter type adapter, which will work perfect with my refrigerator. I also like the fact that it has these external hookups for the inverter, meaning that I don’t have to take the battery out or I don’t have to open it up to actually charge the batter the battery either through solar or through a wall charger. The system is also very portable because of the handle with the power center and, of course, if I need this inside my house anywhere, I need it.

I can easily transport it well. I say easily the problem. The only problem really is is the fact that this battery is 75 pounds so uh, it’s not something that you’re gonna tote around super easy um, but the fact that it is portable and just got to put a little little stomach little shoulders. Little arms, you know, work out your guns and you can move this thing around. I want to show you what the underside of the power center looks like here is the all the wiring right here on the two ends: you’ve got the 12 volt cigarette type adapters and right here are those two fuses that minn kota provides here’s the top there’s kind of a look at the guts inside.

So all this is just gonna sit on top, just like so minn kota provides this strap to buckle everything down, make it nice and secure. So now it’s ready to go. You can walk around with it if you have to. If you look right here at the top, minn kota provides a test button and to indicate the charge of your battery. So all you have to do obviously is hit the button.

This is the manoda comes with a nice bracket. Mounts has a swivel, lock piece where you can lift it up, bring it down turn it this way. In this way, the bracket itself is very strong. Now with the canoes you want to mount it on the outside now, even though the festival in this way he’s got Keith underneath here that grab onto the aluminum, you do not want to put on the inside the canoe, because there’s no lip here, so the actual canoe moves, pretty fast I’ll show you that in a second once we get going plugged in here, I got the battery cable running down, got it over to a marine battery, and this is the 50 amp fuse I think it is so when the the motor gets caught it’ll pop the fuse I can reset it positive negative.

My marine battery I just have a mat there holding it. Oh so anyway, we have been out here all day, never caught anything barely so anyway, we’re gonna pause. It well get moving shortly and we’ll record how fast this sucker moves. Okay, guys we’re gonna, be we’re done for the day. So, pull that anchor up I got this one from Walmart in the US.

Only like 20 bucks for this thing looks like a mushroom. Ah, how deep is that? Let me see it? No! That’s it there! That’s our anchor just row the canoe that keeps us from floating downstream, so we’re gonna get bougie in here. What I’ll get you guys to do is put your hand in the water well wewe bougie. Now we just show these guys the motor.

So let’s uh we’re going to change this. This thing’s got three reverse and links five speed forward. So let’s change it up here. Okay, move on to five speeds: okay, sorry handle water, see how fast the second moves. That’s how fast this little motor boogies around it was pretty fast. I got myself on camera. Doing this normally I would gives me a really nice camera, but I’m not taking that all in the water.

So I like this motor. Here, it’s pretty good. It’s got a pretty good speed. A4. We can run off a battery, no I’m, not ten kilometres yeah I. Think it’s like three miles an hour. If you’re running us terms, so there you go guys, if you guys want to get one of these little canoe, C 30s, you get them at Walmart, really cheap and you can buy this bracket at fast, fast pro shop there and a hook on here.

Can you and like I, said this thing turns pretty good. So like say you I’m gonna turn to the right, then let’s switch it around the other side. Let’s just turn the other way now here that a they got faster turns where my phone will line up in the drink myself floats drink, going down on the water really well, I.

Don’t want to find that out anyway, there you go guys basically simple, you can choose the depth of it too and push this bud and lift it up out of the water. So that’s, basically, the the monody 30 pound thrust five feet so anyway, thanks for watching guys, jack-of-all-trades have a good day.

Is my favorite thing in my group out of all the things I bring, this is most important because numerous times have I found myself screwed from either no phone or I been running trolling for hours and not paying attention to the battery. So this actually tells you if your battery is gonna die. So that’s a pretty important thing. The biggest thing for me about this is the fact that it has these charge ports. The fact that you can charge your phone and not really have to worry about bringing a some junk third party just battery back in your pocket, that’s weighing it down and you already got enough with you and your boat.

You don’t need all that, but this thing’s amazing it beats the plastic one I had before that. You know the battery would just slide around and it was just a case. This thing I feel even if the battery cracked I would still be okay and it’s got the breakers. The fact that your boats not gonna, have light on fire is a good peace of mind. You want to have, but I can’t say enough good about this MinnKota. Their products are the best anything that I buy there is is always top notch.

So if you don’t have one of these already I would definitely look into getting one of these tomorrow. I wouldn’t be going out without some sort of protection level. The breaker, because, if you’re, if you’re running that thing- and you know the wires get hot, that could be pretty bad. So this is a $50 box and it’s pretty worthy investment, but I love it as you can see up top. This is where you can test it see where your batteries that and it’s it’s beautiful. This is what a breaker switches are yeah.

They could have made this thing any any easier and setting up better, see. I got this thing pretty snug, so I don’t even know if I can get this off right now, but bear with me a second, but they couldn’t have made the connections any easier for the average guy. Look, it’s basically just look to redditor to to the positive the black to the negative you’re good. That’s it! That’s the battery I adore this box, and you should too. This is definitely not something you want to not buy.

Even if you want to buy a box and make a breaker, then that’s fine too, but you definitely want to have some sort of breaker, because you will definitely eventually have a fire and that’s never something you want, but thanks for checking us out guys grab one I’m sure you’ll love it just as much as I do anything that’s made by Minn. Kota is top quality, so you never really got to worry about their stuff. Leave me a like subscribe comment. You hate it tell me, I, appreciate it and go Birds.

Just unbox my new Newport vessels, electronic outboard motor is the 46 pound thrust series, so I’m in the process of unpacking it and I realize my might as well go ahead and videotape this and show you what’s in the box. So let me show ya so it came with the trolling motor box inside the trolling motor. You have the color as well as it looks some screws or something in there. The motor is packaged the star here: stop contact Newport vessel directly for customer service and questions.

Our California based customer service team is ready to help. Well, that’s a funny. No pick this particular motor up because of the cost get I, don’t make million bucks on anything, and you know for me to play $125 and it has some decent reviews. Here we have your voltage meter, which is actually pretty cool to know. I have the voltage meter on my fish finder, but that’s pretty cool as far as that goes. This is your adjustment night.

So this is where you adjust it so that the propeller search sits a certain amount in the water. So it’s not too deep, not too high for your or the propulsion of your boat. It also looks like I, had some clamp here, which is going to be good pivot back and forth onto the back of the boat. So this is on my boat. This is their open up the instructions, and let’s do this right. You guys so electronic butter instructions, battery type 12, oh I, already have that.

Thank you for purchasing the product. You’re welcome. You’re, welcome. Newport. All right safely place an electronic motor on the back of the vessel stowaway position. First time rather loosely tighten the transom motor clamps press, the tilt lever and slowly let the motor enter the water, use the depth adjustment collar to adjust the height of the motor recommended running depth between 6 and 12 inches below the waterline. So that’s good to know so.

6 and 12 inches, so I won’t be able to adjust it until I’m, actually in the water. As far as that goes because usually what I’ll do is I’ll take this as a backup motor, so I don’t have to always use my gas motor water I’m trolling around. In the in the water now once it is done to be safe to connect the battery to the butter and sure the twist grip size so again, so it also comes with the circuit breaker and the circuit breaker is meant to connect it to the motor, which is actually pretty cool, and then they disconnect for this there’s a reset button on it.

So if there is a thrust issue, meaning you get, the motor caught in a some weaves or fishing line gets caught on it or something like that. You turn it off real quick, but this wall so pop it. So it stops it from going and potentially burn out. The motor put the propeller on here, there’s a pin that corresponds with a line on the back of the propeller. So the pin goes in here. First like so there’s a little bit of grease here and we stick the pin in like so until it seats.

Alright, then you have a washing. That’s it still side of washer. Here it doesn’t say which way to go, but I’m gonna assume that the top part lip of the screw goes up. Then it comes with its own little wrench, so you hand tighten that, and then you need that little wrench -. Then you need this little screw driver. You need a screwdriver, a thin screwdriver hold it in place to get in there. It’s a lot nut, but if you don’t go all right, that’s in place all right.

So once again, I have the Newport vessel, trolling motor, all set up. It’s pretty much. Unfortunately, the way my ransom is it’s at an angle, but I do get complete 360 turn around here. So as far as the extension, the extension extension is pretty cool, so I’m able to pull it out, I’m able to get a full extension, so I have a little bit better leverage. It has your charging port on the top and as far as speed goes, this is five full speed.

This is the it’s five speeds, so we’re going full speed right now we’re looking for a fish and there’s some fish, and but you have four speeds, and then you got three speeds in Reverse, so it’s actually pretty cool as far as that whole part of it. The only negative thing I have is, with the these two pins when it tied them on. One of them turns real, easy and smooth, where the other one is really really tight and I got a crank into it.

I’m gonna assume that it doesn’t sit right in the threads. I did call all them and they went ahead and I called Newport vessel and they suggested that I put some Lube in there which they did, but it’s still really tight. Now again, that’s a positive and negative positive. It’s well! It’s not going to come off the boat. It’s it’s clamped in there negative again, I take this on and off my boat continuously. So it’s a little bit tighter in that regards.

So you know again for 125 bucks on Amazon, it’s a decent motor guys it does the job and it does it well so hey! Hopefully this helps you guys out thanks for watching everybody make sure please remember to subscribe and we’ll see you next time on the next video thanks. Everybody have a great day.

I would make a quick video just to this is this: is a newport vessels battery box, not a bad box? There’s a couple of things I don’t like about it. One is that it does not have a charging port so that you can charge the battery without opening the box up on the battery boxes that I make I put a charging port on them. One of my customers already has a battery, which is a 55 amp hour, mighty max that he bought off of amazon.

It’s a good battery. It weighs 39 pounds, it will fit in this box and but you’ve got to have to add some foam to keep it in place. So I was going to show a couple of the things that I did to this box. One is, I installed a atwood trolling motor plug female and then I’m sending him a an atwood trolling motor plug male, that I put crimps on it and fill them with noah locks to prevent corrosion and to help this.

The connection. The other thing I did was, I installed an sae plug so that he can plug his trolling motor directly into this. The sae plug has an inline fuse. I’ve been I’ve, given him a 5 amp fuse and also I’m sending him a a 3 amp fuse, because I don’t know what his fish finder did. I say trolling motor, I don’t know what his fish finder uses, um, so trolley motor plug fish, finder plug and then the what I what I did was.

I took this panel off, which you can unscrew use uh. Taking these four screws out. This protection panel will just lift out and then once I did that I built some connecting wires using number eight, I believe, have to look um yeah number, eight, eight gauge marine grade wire uh, that’s supposed to be black, really it’s kind of brown or clear, and then, of course, the red for the positive leads after I did that I used.

These are copper connections that are tinned for protection, and this is the right size which is a 5 16 to connect to the back side of these battery terminal posts. So I did one for the trolling motor plug and one of the benefits is uh. Newport includes or builds in a 60 amp um, a 60 amp circuit breaker and a 10 amp circuit breaker, the 10 amp circuit breaker goes to their uh 12 volt plug right there and then, of course, the 60 amp goes to the battery post.

I just tied into that so that my trolling motor plug that I installed is protected with their 60 amp circuit breaker. Then I did the same thing for installing the fish finder plug. I put it in line fuse, it’s got a five amp fuse in it and I ran an extra long lead so that he can change the fuse or check the fuse without taking this panel off instead of hiding it underneath here I just uh, I put a longer lead on it, so he could do that without removing this panel.

I think I mentioned that the 55 amp hour mighty max battery weighs 39 pounds if I remember correctly, give or take so it’s a heavy battery. This is a good heavy duty box. Uh can’t argue with that um. It’s pretty easy to machine uh drill the holes in it so that I could add uh these things. This battery box goes for 65 and then, of course, the additional modifications that I needed to make ran the price up a little bit, but I think he will be really happy with it uh.

It’s got some handles on the sides for lifting it um, which is the way I would recommend carrying this box rather than carrying it by the handle. Um just be sure I put that male plug in here yep it’s in there, so all he needs to do when he gets the box is connect. These two leads to his battery and close it up and he’s ready to hit the water so next time, if I ever have to do one of these again, I will video the the process so that people can see how I did it.

I’m gonna keep this pretty good and tight, because, when you’re carrying a 40 pound battery, you don’t want the lid coming off. This thing, um actually has sorry about that. It’s a great accessory for small boat volt boats, multiple dc accessory port, it does have a usb plug. My battery box has a dual usb plugs he’s got a 12 volt plug my box also has a 12 volt plug.

It has a test button which will show the power the voltage of the battery or the condition of the battery. It does not have a voltmeter, which I really like having it on my box, so uh, that’s it I’ll post this and if you’ve got any questions, you can uh, send me a pm on facebook or send me an email to portapowerpro1500 at gmail com.

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So we have a new battery to test and of Amazon for like 700 bucks with my own cash and what’s cool about this battery, is it’s pretty cheap for what you get and it’s the first safety certified and ul listed battery? That’s under $800. So if this turns out to be a good battery, I think you will make a lot of people happy and because it’s a cheaper battery, it does have cheaper components and you’ll notice that most 100 amp hour, lithium iron phosphate drop-in replacements like this.

Can discharge 100 amps continuous. This one can only discharge 70 amps and it can only charge it 50 amps. So keep that in mind if you’re trying to connect this to a large inverter, you need to find the max continuous discharge rate and figure out what your inverter needs. So you’ll have to put multiple batteries into parallel to power larger loads. But what’s really cool is that at this price point not long ago, we had rooks ooh and Brooks, who did not have low-temperature disconnect and it did not have any safety ratings at all.

Not only is this safety certified, it has low-temperature charging protection. So this is a complete battery system. You don’t have to buy anything else. It arrived at thirteen point, one nine volts, which is good. This batteries pretty heavy. Actually, this battery weighs 29 pounds, so it’s almost the same way as a battleborn. Before we tear into this battery we’re gonna charge it up and do a capacity test just to make sure that those results are good and today we’re gonna test out a lithium iron phosphate specific ul listed progressive dynamics charger.

So now we have the positive connected to the positive and the negative connected to the negative and we just need to plug it in it sounds like it’s working, oh wow, look at that guys, 30 amps, going into this battery right now. It works really well, and this battery charger will fill up this battery in less than three hours if I were using my other led acid speed charger. Usually for the last hour it drops down to 12 amps, and it drives me nuts. This one for lithium iron phosphate does constant current and voltage all the way till the end, so it will push 30 amps until this battery is fully charged.

Now the battery is fully charged and I just got an email from expert power, because I was wondering if you can put these into series connection for a 24 or a 48 volt battery, and it says that it can absolutely do 24 volts, but they do not recommend most people running them in that way, but they’re working on a new battery that will be capable of handling a 48 volt system, but it will be released later this year and they said that there’s also a limit to putting them in parallel, which is only 400 amp hours now I feel like an idiot because I just bought this this week and they’re coming out with the new battery, but that new battery might cost a lot more because you’re gonna have to upgrade all of those components and whatever else they’re upgrading it’s not going to be as cheap as this.

So I think this might still be good for 12 volt. Only systems like rvs and fans, but yeah I, wouldn’t connect it in 24 or 48 volt. So the main competition for this one is the Rena G anyways. Let’s continue the test and do a capacity test. This is the typical 300 amp shunt, with a capacity monitor and we’re gonna hook it up to a heat gun. Actually, let’s do a max load test, real, quick just to see if he can pull 70 amps, it’s pulling 67 amps. Let’s run this for a few minutes to make sure it can handle that load.

Yeah. The BMS is right here. You feel it warm up every time and it max load. We pulled 9 minutes and 5 amp hours, so it passed the test now we’re pulling 20 amps for the capacity test, so we’re gonna run this until it dies. So it’s been 5 hours and we’re at 99 amp hours. It’s almost there guys I’m, tired I’ve, been doing this test way too long. I need to stop doing these tests. Yeah. It’s like 1 o’clock in the morning and I feel like death. I should not be doing this test this late at night.

It’s not fun, so we passed 100 amp hours and the test is almost done. So we have some test results. We have 111 amp hours in 1, 41 kilo watt hours, so this battery exceeded its advertised capacity by 11 percent. This is the best test result for capacity that I’ve ever had. I really was not expecting this result from this cheap of a battery that is nuts now for the next test, we’re going to throw this in the freezer and see if it has low temperature charging protection.

So this battery is at 22 degrees, Fahrenheit and we’re gonna. Try charging it and right now it’s charging, so it should cut off in less than a second guys. This battery is frozen. It should not be charging right now, I guess we should open it up and see if it even has temperature sensors. That’s ridiculous. It should not be charging right now. I left it in the refrigerator for like three hours, yeah guys. This does not have low. Temp are charging protection at all, so no one should buy this battery.

Do not buy this battery and I just wasted $700. Now we have a breathing mask and glasses, so we’re gonna come to this safely, so I damaged the temperature sensor line. So I’m gonna have to fix this and we’ll test it manually. But look at these terminal connectors they’re, not the right size hole for this terminal. That’s not good! So this is frozen. Salt, water and it’s at 6 degrees, Fahrenheit, and it’s still not triggering a low temperature charging protection at all.

That’s a really big bummer! You guys that sucks! Oh wow guys. You won’t believe this and check this out guys. This is a pretty interesting setup. We’ve eight cells in series, in parallel for a nominal voltage of 12 volts but yeah. This is well made, look at how this balanced cable is attached and these are all brand new cells, so they did a good job here. This is a lot of battery for a 100 amp power cell I wish it was labeled with the capacity, but it doesn’t tell me because this pack did pull 110 amp hours, which is really impressive, but man look.

How big this battery is it’s huge, so this is probably the highest quality. Cheap battery that we’ve ever tested, but it is a huge bummer that it doesn’t have low temperature disconnect. But if you have a victor on solar charge controller, you can add a $40 battery, since you could add your own low-temperature charging protection, and this BMS even has two temperature sensors, one on the MOSFET heatsink and one that goes down to the cells. This one is not taped to the cells, which is unfortunate, but man 6 degrees.

Fahrenheit water should be able to trigger that instantly. It was saltwater by the way but yeah such a bummer I. Can’t they make that final step. It costs pretty much nothing at this point. You guys already have all the logic control systems. You just need a flash. It was something that can take this input and turn off when you have charging it’s. It’s so simple, so I just emailed the company to see if this has low temp retention and while I was waiting, I looked up.

The datasheet and you’ll see battery number of since there’s one charging. It has 23 degrees, Fahrenheit to 149 degrees, Fahrenheit protection in the recovery temperatures at 32 degrees. We got that sensor down to 6 degrees Fahrenheit in the when I did the initial test before I even cut into it and I damaged the wires it was below that temperature so that temperature disconnect should have been working. So the datasheet says that it does. This says that it does, but it does not work.

So maybe we have a faulty BMS, but that’s a big bummer I cannot recommend something that does not have that simple feature working perfectly. This thing was in the freezer for a very long time, and usually that will trip any battleborn or any Lian energy battery or any other battery on the market. It will trip it instantly, it’s very cold, so I don’t understand why it didn’t trip. Let’s put the battery back together again and try one more time. The negative is connected to be negative and we’re gonna add the balance cable.

Now we have 12 point 2 volts at the output and right now it’s charging so we’re gonna. Add the salt water that is below freezing and this water is at 15 degrees, Fahrenheit and the cutoff is at 24 degrees we’re at 16. We’re still charging I don’t understand that this is not working. This should work instantly now we’re charging with 29 amps and 10 amps and we’re gonna see if it will throttle the charging current when it’s colder, because maybe it has that in its logic system but I highly doubt it it’s not getting triggered at all.

It is still charging it below freezing, and this is a very simple temperature sensor. The wires look really good. All it does is measures the resistance and it should instantly trip. This is nice. There’s always the possibility that a temperature sensor is faulty, but they should be able to check that when they did the quality control of the BMS, because as TPC so I’m guessing that’s for temperature and some other stuff yeah, we verified it multiple times that this does not have charging protection and it says it on the datasheet.

So I don’t know what to tell you guys. I would not buy this thing. So if you want to build your own battery system, where you put these only in parallel or series connect up to 24 volts, and you know how to build a system with low temperature protection, then you can buy this battery, but for everybody else you should stick with something: that’s more expensive. That actually has all the features that you want. It’s just not worth it to save an extra 100 or $200 when you don’t get all the other features- and this is not sponsored.

I bought this with my own money. That’s why I’m mad right now, because I’m gonna have to try to return this and I’m gonna email them and show them a video and pictures of how mad I am because this sucks. It should not do this. It should work so anyways I hope you guys learned a lot. We have some other batteries coming, which should work. So I will talk to you soon and look forward to those videos. Alright, bye.