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| Posted: 12:31am 29 Sep 2025 |
Hi Pete,
Yeah cheaper materials in some batteries, while making it harder to find the good quality amongst them.
I currently use Amaron Automotive starting Batteries, they seem to be quite good for the old tractors etc.
You would probably remember a long time back there was a lot of offgrid setups and the battery choice was quite often Raylite Batteries, there are a few reports of them not doing as well as they used to, this is from users that had them previously, stayed with the same brand, I looked at them years ago and there were very pricey back then.
I had some old UK made AGM batteries, I think they were, will post a picture and details later.
Around 15 years ago you hardly heard of any battery fires with these 18650 cells, I had a lot of them from medical equipment so they had to be good, still have a set of those running my weed sprayer they were made in 2009, take into account that weed spraying is not that often and mostly only spring and summer.
When we had the Ambulance come in, I was surprised by how much of there gear is battery powered, mostly lithium powered I think so good quality reliable.
Saw this the other day, https://www.theverge.com/news/784966/lumafield-x-ray-ct-scan-lithium-ion-battery-risks-manufacturing-defect And another reason I don't buy any batteries or battery powered stuff overseas, if anyone has recently best to check if the 18650's are fake.