Lithium Battery

No experience but is it a battery designed for starting a car? Example of usage states "fish finders" etc. Is it more of a leisure battery?
 
Mart said:
No experience but is it a battery designed for starting a car? Example of usage states "fish finders" etc. Is it more of a leisure battery?
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The Odyssey battery I am using now worked quite well. The lithium I am considering has more cranking amps. I used the Odyssey in my airplane for about 20 years, It started an engine of 470 CI's with 7 to 1 pistons. I went to lithium in the plane a year ago and man does it crank over.
 
Dakota Lithium doesn't list that battery for engine starting/cranking applications.

It also has a max charge current of 15A, which you could potentially exceed even with a stock Ford generator.

Lithium batteries also have different charging requirements than lead-acid batteries. You need to make sure your charger has an appropriate mode. AGM is not Lithium. They are more prone to starting fires if not properly charged.
 
The risk is always there with lithium-ion and NiMHD batteries. When they're in good shape there is generally no problem. If they get damaged or deteriorate to a certain level then they can catch fire. It wouldn't be my first choice in an aircraft. If I'm signing the logs then it would have a lead acid based battery that's approved. I had good luck with Ni-Cad batteries in cooler climates but they don't like Texas. I learned how to do proper deep cycle inspections on them and they worked OK but diligence always pays off. The FARs require a temperature warning system with Ni-Cad types in aircraft and I had several start to overheat. I picked up an aircraft that caught fire with a Ni-Cad and there wasn''t much left of it. I salvaged the tail feathers and the cargo hook and that was about it.

I used two Odyssey batteries in my start cart to get a high amp 24-volt or 12-volt power output. They lasted a long time under hard use so I can't poo poo them but they were big giant 12-volt units with the highest cranking amps I could get.
 
I'm a little leery of the lithium batteries in automobiles including those in the new EV's. My fear is fire. When they burn you're probably not putting them out. Neither is my local volunteer fire dept. That's why I would never park and EV car in a building.
 
charge rate is the whole problem to many amps to quickly and they will overheat and burn once they start you cant put them out IT CAN BURN YOUR PRIDE AND JOY TO ASH battery cooling is critical and most car batteries are in a hot eng bay so think very carefully my personal take is NO!!!!!! not worth the risk [see whats left of a tesla when they burn about $10 in scrap]
 
I belong to a fishing web site and they don't seem to have much good to say about the Dakota brand batteries.
 
The max charging rate and recommended LifeP04 charger lead me to believe it isn't automotive use friendly.
 
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