Victron LiFePO4 Battery 12,8V/50Ah Smart (BAT512050610) – BLUETOOTH VERSION

Victron LiFePO4 Battery 12,8V/50Ah Smart (BAT512050610)

– With integrated cell balancing
– Can be parallel and series connected
– Bluetooth app available to monitor cell voltage and temperature

Rugged

A lead-acid battery will fail prematurely due to sulfation:

• If it operates in deficit mode during long periods of time (i.e. if the battery is rarely, or never at all, fully charged).

• If it is left partially charged or worse, fully discharged (yacht or mobile home during wintertime).

 

A LFP battery

• Does not need to be fully charged. Service life even slightly improves in case of partial charge instead of a full charge. This is a major advantage of LFP compared to lead-acid.

• Other advantages are the wide operating temperature range, excellent cycling performance, low internal resistance and high efficiency (see below).

LFP is therefore the chemistry of choice for demanding applications.

 

Efficient

• In several applications (especially off-grid solar and/or wind), energy efficiency can be of crucial importance.

• The round-trip energy efficiency (discharge from 100 % to 0 % and back to 100 % charged) of the average lead-acid battery is 80 %.

• The round-trip energy efficiency of a LFP battery is 92 %.

• The charge process of lead-acid batteries becomes particularly inefficient when the 80 % state of charge has been reached, resulting in efficiencies of 50 % or even less in solar systems where several days of reserve energy is required (battery operating in 70 % to 100 % charged state).

• In contrast, a LFP battery will still achieve 90 % efficiency under shallow discharge conditions.

Bluetooth

With Bluetooth cell voltages, temperature and alarm status can be monitored. Very useful to localise a (potential) problem, such as cell imbalance.