BougeRV 12v LiFePO4 Battery 100Ah | BV12100 #lifepo4 #bougerv

What's up guys, I'm back to the channel. This episode is going to be all about this lithium iron phosphate from BougeRV. So, BougeRV is actually a company that's been around for a while and over the many years or so, I've purchased a lot of equipment from them without even knowing it when I first bought them that they were going to be an established company. So, it's not really a company that's just been formed over the last couple months and, you know, just started importing products and selling them.

It's actually an established company that's been around for a while cuz I own things like cables, coolers, inverters, all little kinds of adapters and stuff from them that I purchased with them on my own money, right? So, this is not the first battery that they make, but this make uh model of this battery is fairly new to market. So, since we've been doing a lot of 12-V work, especially with the 12-V inverter, we thought we'd go ahead and check this one out. So, we're going to be talking about this life lithium iron phosphate battery model number BB12100 today.

So, if you want to know more about this, stick with us. All right, so first things first, let's go over the quick specs, right? So, this is a 12.8-V lithium iron phosphate 100 amp hour battery. If you multiply all that together, pretty much says this is a 1.2 80 kWh battery, right?

So, the charging voltage of a 12.8-V battery is going to be around 14.4 to 14.6 V. You want to use a lithium iron phosphate charger, and the charge current recommended is 0.2 C. So, what that comes out to be is about 20 amps. The maximum charge current is 100 amps, and the maximum continuous charge current is 100 amps, right?

So, the peak and the constant current or continuous current are going to be about the same. When it comes to this charge, it is going to be a little bit different because the maximum continuous discharge of this battery is rated for 1C, which is 100 amps. A maximum peak like search discharge so to say is 330 amps for roughly about 2.5 seconds. Being a lithium iron phosphate battery, it's rated to be cycled about 4,000 times.

And it's got all kinds of protection that that you would expect nowadays as a standard protection built into it, right? So, over charging protection, over recovery protection, over discharging protection, recovery protection. It's got all kinds of things including low temperature charging and discharging protection. So, if you live in colder climates, especially winter coming up, that's something you need especially because charging a lithium iron phosphates at really cold temperatures is really not good for the battery.

So, make sure you keep that in mind. Obviously, being a sealed battery like this is IP65 rated. And in case you are wondering the size and dimensions of the battery, this battery is in group 24. So, this right here is a battery.

And as you can see, it's pretty well sealed up. This is considered almost like a waterproof battery. Obviously, you don't want to submerge it, but it is waterproof, right? It's completely sealed.

It's got the style that is coming more and more popular these days where if you fold the two sides up, it can kind of be like a carrying handle like this and it kind of makes it easy to transport and carry. So, that's a thing. I do appreciate that especially if you're moving batteries, you know, sometimes trying to just lift the battery and get your finger under it becomes a little bit of a challenge, right? But as you can see, it's pretty solid plastic on all sides including the bottom in case you want to know what the bottom look like.

It's pretty much all sealed up just like that, right? So, on the top, it's actually got the terminals for uh positive and negative, and it's got uh pretty much the standard lugs here. And if you wanted to know uh what size uh wrench to use for the lugs, you want to get a 13 mm wrench. So, even though the uh lugs uh have a Phillips head pattern on them, I would highly recommend using a wrench on them, especially because using the wrench gets the uh driving power pretty much force on all sides of the bolt.

And you don't have to worry about stripping this out or anything like that. And as it comes with these systems, when you're tightening things down, you want to make sure you torque them down properly and tighten them down properly, especially because the uh 12-V system is going to be carrying a lot of current, right? So, let's talk about 12-V systems just for a second in general. So, a lot of people are going to be using these types of batteries to run AC loads.

Uh what that really means is this is DC power stored in this battery, and people are going to be using it like an inverter to take it up to, at least in the US, 120 V, right? So, 12 V going to 120 V, and how do you get that? It's about times 10, right? So, cuz you got to move the decimal at least one spot, right?

So, uh if you want to get, you know, 120 V at 1 amp, you're going to be carrying 10 amps of this uh voltage to get there, right? So, 120 V is a huge step up from uh 12. So, uh you're going to be using pretty big wires to do that. When you're using big wires and large currents, you want to make sure you tighten the connections down very well.

So, I would make sure you use a 13 mm wrench, right? So, uh as you can see right here, uh there's really nothing else going on with the physical part of this battery. Like I mentioned, it's already in group 24. This one has obviously been QC'd, or at least that's what the sticker tells me.

So, what we're going to do is let's go ahead and test the battery. So, here we have the battery connected to the BougeRV 12-V 2000-W pure sine wave converter. If you're interested in that inverter, make sure you check that uh video out cuz we have a video review on that inverter. So, you would think right now the BougeRV uh battery would be a perfect pairing for that inverter.

There we go. So, the breaker is now flipped. As you can see, uh this part's coming on. This is a DC-rated clamp meter.

So, we're going to see pretty much how much power we can pull uh or is coming out of this cable or going into the inverter coming out of the battery, right? As you can see here, here is the inverter specs. So, let's go ahead and uh look at these two screens here, cuz this is going to tell us the amps. Right now, the battery is at 13.2 V.

The output is 120. We're pulling 0 W. So, let's go ahead and hit this heat gun up, and this should be enough because this is a heat gun that can go maybe 16 1,700 W 100 W, which is going to be exceeding what this can put out. So, let's just go ahead and see how that works.

Turn it on. Hit the light on here. As you can see right there, we're pulling about 45 42 43 44 amps uh for a 520 30 uh W coming out. Let's go ahead and step it up for a little bit, right?

There you go. Look at that. Actually, let's hit the speed higher. As you can see, the speed is higher.

Uh the voltage uh dipping a little bit, but we're pulling uh close to 900 W. We got 910 911 916. We're pulling about 90 amps, okay? 89 amps.

That's about 90 amps. So, uh at 920 90 amps, if I step it up one more time, it may just push it over limit because remember this battery is only capable at 100 amps continuous. Let's do it. Now we're trying to get to a little more than 1,000.

See, we're pulling more than 115. It's taking it. It's definitely taking it. It is able to put a little bit more out, right?

So, it is pulling more than 100 amps for a few seconds. Oh, there it goes. It just dipped. Ah, interesting.

It dipped, but it did come back, right? So, we're still at 120. 117. Close to 1,100 1,150 watts.

It's actually taking it pretty well. It could probably run this for a few minutes in case you need to run, you know, a little bit more than uh a 100 amps. You can definitely can do it for a little bit. This wire is not really all that warm yet.

It's only just been a few seconds. So, let's go ahead and step it up all the way and see what happens. 140. 145 46.

47 48. We're 1,400 watts here. 50. That's interesting uh meaning because it says rated for 100 watts continuous or 100 amps continuous.

We're doing 50 150% of that cuz we're at about 150 amps continuous. It's been uh a little bit. So, you know, it is taking it. I don't know how long it's going to take it um but we'll see.

All right, so here's a bonus item. So, I was using the phone and checking on stuff for a different battery and then I realized there's more batteries on here than I actually have that should work with this. So, I clicked on this one and it showed a few on here and I was wondering if it was this because obviously this battery's going to have a BMS system built into it and and interestingly enough, I started drawing power from the battery which is what you hear in the background, the heat gun sound, and it's saying it's drawing roughly about uh 70-something watts. So, that makes me believe it's the second one right here that says 88%.

So, let's go into it and see what actually happens, right? So, if I go let's cut the power all the way. See what happens. See, as the gun the heat gun fan died down, it definitely went down.

But, just to see if the uh power draw is even close, firing it up, it looks like it's drawing about 540-something according to the BougeRV uh LCD screen that says it's drawing power, so it's definitely this battery for sure. Uh so, in here or in this app, you can tell obviously the uh fuel gauge, how much is left in the battery, the battery voltage, roughly how many amp hours are left, the temperature sensor that's built into the battery, uh the individual cell voltage, and the manufacturer of the BMS, right? So, according to this, the manufacturer of this is a JBD BMS because the manufacturer is DG JBD and that means it's a JBD BMS. So, it's got a device name, so that's the the name of the uh BMS in case that's what you were looking for and it even tells you in here how many times it's been cycled uh and any alarms that it went off, right?

So, I've only charged it one time, as I mentioned earlier. And then during that one time it charged, it looks like a single cell went over voltage at least once. So, you know, that's interesting. So, in this it actually says it's a 104 amp hour battery, and about 90.8 of it is what's remaining.

So, you know, that's actually interesting and good to know. But, I do appreciate that I can get power or information about the battery through the app, mainly because that's always a plus and nice to have. You can in a way check the fuel gauge of the battery using the app, because you know, on the battery there's no fuel gauge on on these batteries built in. You know, that's just not a thing.

That That's not what happens on these types of batteries at all. So, using an app to get it and also check the sensors and specs and stats of the battery is really nice. Huge plus. I am interested though why they do not advertise that it has the capability, but it is nice that we did find it is possible to do that.

All right, and that's what you really get with this battery. So, this battery, like I said, it's fairly new to the market, this model, and it I think around is probably going to be around $299 or something like that, which is a little bit on the higher end of these batteries, especially if you look at the market for the for the cheapest things you could possibly get. You know, they may be close to around like 220 or even 200 or something like that. So, this is going to be a little bit of a premium, but it does feel like, you know, compared to some of the other batteries that I've touched and used, it seems to be just a little bit better for that premium, right?

And and in fact also be by a company that's probably that's been around and will hopefully probably continue to be around in case you have to get warranty support or anything like that. That's probably just a little bit safer thing to have, and also keep in mind, right? So, um uh one thing I didn't mention is that uh this is a 4S or 4P battery, uh which means uh well, the cells in there are obviously going to be, you know, then series and stuff like that. But, if you want to build a bigger pack, right?

So, if you wanted to get like four of these, you could put four of them in series, uh or you can put four of them in parallel. Technically speaking, you could put them four in parallel and series uh to get a big pack. So, if you got four of these, you know, and each one is about 1.2 uh 8 uh watt hours, that would be close to about 5 kWh. Almost.

Almost, right? So, with 5 kWh, if you get four of these, you could probably run this inverter for a long time, depending on whatever your your needs were, right? And then uh you wouldn't technically uh be able to get, you know, whatever you need to get done, depending on the load you're putting on it, but you would need to run maintenance on it if you're going to build out a battery system, you know, with that, right? Cuz uh even though the batteries are going to be the same, they're using the same components, same cells in building it out, because you have them in uh series, you know, there's going to be drift and uh degradation of performance over time.

So, if you're going to do something like that, make sure every once I'm going to say 6 or 12 months, you go ahead and charge each one up um all the way, or drain it and then charge it up all the way, that way you can run maintenance across that, right? So, that's one reason you probably don't want to put like four of these in series or something like that. If you put them in parallel, that's much uh less of an issue. So, uh make sure you keep that in mind.

But, anyways, four of these in parallel or in series is going to be closer to 48 V. Four of these in parallel is still 12.8 V, just in case uh you were wondering. So, um I'm going to contact them, see if we can get like a discount code or something like that. Uh so, if you wanted to pick this battery up, make sure you use discount code, uh because discount code will help you get a better deal on this battery, right?

So, hope this video helped you guys out. There is a huge plus to it cuz I did also check out their website and the website, when you when you check out the information for the for the battery, nowhere on the website does it say Bluetooth. Nowhere on the box or the manual does it say Bluetooth, right? So, I don't know why they are not marketing that, but the fact that it does have it is really nice.

So, that would be one reason that would help push you maybe just to pay a little bit more to get that app connectivity feature because as you can see on here, there's no fuel gauge way or anything like that. There is no screen, no information. Only thing you're going to really be able to get is information coming out by using testing tools like multimeters and clamp meters and stuff like that. So, having app connectivity to BMS tool is huge and I would pay a little bit extra for that, right?

But, that's just me. Anyways, stop your jibber-jabbering. Hope this video helped you guys out. If you have any questions, let us know.

Otherwise, have a great day, get back to work, and we'll see you guys next time.