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I got a new battery from tem got

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t E m g ot that's the
way it's pronounced. It's got a really

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really cool screen on the top of
the battery. Twelve volt's one hundred amp

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hours lithium iron phosphate battery. We're
going to take a look and put it

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on the tester today. Okay,
this is the battery right here, and

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what I want to do is show
you the overhead. This is the Amazon

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page that they sent me. They
also have a website of their REALM two

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hundred for one hundred amp hour battery
is cheap. That's that's really good.

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And you can see the screen on
top of your right there, which I'm

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gonna show you here in a second. So I'm curious to see how this

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is. This thing is going to
perform we're going to put this on the

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West Mountain Radio CBA five battery testing
device in software and see how it performs.

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But before we do that, I
am going to show you. Okay,

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so I got I gotta zoom nip
on the screen. This is a

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strap on the top of it here, kind of nice, nice strap.

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Like most lithium lithium iron phosphate batteries. This is not heavy. It's not

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very heavy at all. But we
can turn the screen on right there,

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right there boots up for a second. And as of yet I don't have

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I haven't figured out how to turn
the screen off. It goes off by

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itself after twenty minutes a half hour. I haven't actually timed it yet.

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But but right now you press that
button to turn it on and it shows

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you know, ninety nine percent stand
by right there, It shows you thirteen

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point three volts, the temperature and
celsius. You might be able to change

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that, okay. The next screen
over shows you the input and output or

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the max temp. Okay, so
you can probably change that max temp and

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the minimum temp twenty dot eight degrees
celsius. I don't know what that means.

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How many recharge cycles I like it
when these batteries give you this information

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how many how many times it's been
recharged. That way, if you I

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don't know, if you buy a
used battery, you can look at it

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and see that, and if you
have the battery on your RV or in

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your battery box or something like that, you can see how many times you've

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recharged it. I like that information. That way, you know how much

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longer the battery is gonna last,
okay, And it would give us information

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there if it was plugged into something
right now, and then this I'm not

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sure what that screen means right there, it says page three on the bottom.

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I don't know one, two,
three, and four says thirty three

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hundred and twenty six or twenty seven
millibles because it said there's four lines there

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and then it comes back here.
But if you go to the cycles,

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it's only on one. So maybe
that's just a testing phase they had it

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in. I'm not sure. You
can turn that off and on, charge

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off and on, discharge off and
on, so you can turn the battery

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off and on by touchscreen that tells
you the top one tells you the current

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current, tells you the right now
voltage and the right now temperature, and

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it says nine ninety nine hours and
twenty four minutes until empty. That's because

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there's nothing drawing on it right now. I charge this battery about a week

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ago. I wanted to make sure
it had a full charge for I put

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it on the tester, charged it
a week ago. It's still at ninety

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nine percent. So hats off to
the ability for it to actually hold a

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charge for a long time with nothing
drawing from it. So we're gonna put

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it on the West Mountain Radio software
right now and see what happens. All

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right, This is the West Mountain
Radio CBA five software that is running on

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the computer behind me. All right, so we got new test and test

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name and gonna put to tem gott
okay live pot four. I'm gonna click

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on detect Okay, detects thirteen dot
three volts at one hundred empowers with four

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cells. The only thing it really
detects is the voltage, and sometimes it'll

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change the cells, which is usually
wrong. But four cells is correct and

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one hundred empires is correct because that's
what I tested last time. So now

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cutoff voltage is ten. I guess
that's probably okay. You know, I

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wish I should try one of these
tests that the cutoff foldage of like eleven

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dot two, because anything less than
that is going to not be viable and

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ruin your battery unless your battery has
a BMS. Okay, and a lot

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of these tests the battery BMS cuts
it off long before it gets down to

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ten bolts, So that right there
is probably fine because this battery does have

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a BMS. Let's go ahead and
click on start. All right, it's

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running right there now one hundred amp
hour. One hundred hours is about four

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days. Four hours. Ninety six
hours is four days, so I'm gonna

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have to come back to this test
four days from now, Happy Thanksgiving.

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That's about when I'm doing it.
Right now, it looks like it's reading

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about it's drawing about zero dot eight
eight amps. Okay, so it's set

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to draw one amp, and when
it first started, it'll it's drawing zero

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dot eight eight amps, so not
quite one amp. So in theory if

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it stays, if it stays at
that current, it should last longer than

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one hundred amp hours. We'll see, stay tuned and we will be back.

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All right. We are finished,
and after about ninety about ninety well,

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actually no, a little under four
days. It looks like right here,

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all right, it looks like we've
got ninety four amp hours out of

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this battery. And I will share
a couple of screenshot overlays here. I

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took pictures of the top of the
screen while the battery test was going,

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and it was showing the draw in
the battery, and it was showing how

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much amp hoers was left. So
again, the screen is really cool.

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I think it's a neat feature to
have that screen like that. Now,

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one thing I will say is it
looks like the test cut this battery off,

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not the BMS. So it makes
me wonder if there's a BMS actually

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in this battery at all. I
might have to check with the company and

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see. Let me move this a
little bit over here, okay, so

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you can see right there where it
ended. Like I came in when it

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was like basically right in here where
my mouse is right now. I came

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in and it was like the last
thirty minutes or so, maybe forty five

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minutes before the test ended, and
it was down actually it was more like

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right here because it was down below
like I would expect the BMS to cut

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it off somewhere between eleven eleven point
five volts, maybe like eleven point two

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volts something like that. It didn't. In fact, the software was set

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to end the test at ten point
five so that you don't bring it down

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too far, which a BMS should
keep you from doing that. So it

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doesn't really look like the BMS in
this thing is working. Or maybe it

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just doesn't have a BMS. I'm
not sure. I may have to check

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with the company and see, but
let's assume let's assume it doesn't have a

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BMS. I think that I would
probably take this thing and say, you

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know what, I'm gonna put it
in a battery box and use it for

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a while and just kind of see
how it performs over the next three to

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six months, because what else am
I gonna do with it? Now that

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I've done the test on it,
and I'd like to see how it works

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in a real world environment. I
certainly like that big screen on it.

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I like the big screen, the
big readout on the screen, be able

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to look at it and see what's
it gonna draw? How much longer have

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I got before I have to have
to charge it or something? Before it

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gets down to like eleven volts or
something, because like, you're not gonna

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want to run a radio less than
like twelve volts twelve point zero. When

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it gets down to like eleven point
eight or lower than that, the radio

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does not operate correctly, so you're
not gonna want to do that. It

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might be even more, maybe like
twelve point two. I mean, optimally

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it's supposed to run on thirteen point
eight bowls, but we'll see. So

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I'll put a link in the description
low you guys can go look at this.

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I'm gonna also email the company and
say, hey, should this thing

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have a BMS because it doesn't look
like it's working. If so,