Toll Publishing DIY Lithium Batteries: How to Build Your Own Battery Packs

Not Worth The Money you Pay for., Very basic Line drawings and Illustrations and all black and White pages., not even a single photo. You can Get more info Free on YouTube.!

Kindle version is missing diagrams and examples. It will reference to them but nothing is there. I would like a refund, I would get the paper back, stay away from the kindle version. How do you understand what he is talking about when the examples and diagrams are missing? Hey, Amazon, how do I get a kindle refund?

Americans have been writing good DIY books for over 130 years. I have a collection.Trouble is they tend to address the how and spend little time on the why. This book is different. It's broadly split into two sections, one discussing batteries and what works best. Call this the "why". The writing is simple and there is NO jargon. That said, the knowledge is very detailed and is essential to building an effective, safe battety.The second section is the typical "how". I found it a bit simplistic for a typical hobbyist but anyone can build a Lipo using these instructions.What the book summary says is what you get. You also get useful information on the feeding, exercise and care of your pet Lipo battery

Very disappointed with both books DIY Lithium batteries and DIY solar power. Large print, less info. The DIY in the title made me think that the books would have sources for all the components and relative pros/cons of each. Thought there’d be actual wiring diagrams with actual components. Save your $ and just google starting with general queries and then specific ones once you understand how the systems are put together and work. YouTube videos would also be much more useful than these two books :-(

Great information. As expected. The hard to get on the Internet Information gleaned from this will be very helpful in building my home power wall and the new battery pack for my Prius all-EV revamp I'm working on. Thanks for the great guide! It confirms many things I knew and many things I suspected about the batteries and choice of batteries and ties it all together for me in a way I totally get. Complete with the formulas needed to decipher what's what. Awesome!! The only better thing would have been if it was released as an eBook in the Apple/iOS iBook format so it could have working databases and calculators in the book itself. That would have made a great book on Lithium Ion batteries into the greatest book on Lithium batteries ever published!

This book is not only a guide to building battery packs. The first half of the book is a short course on Lithium batteries in general.• A paragraph or so on lithium chemistries: Lithium ion, Lithium Manganese Oxide, Lithium Cobalt Oxide, Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide, Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide, Lithium polymer, Lithium Iron Phosphate• Choosing between: Pouch, Prismatic, and Cylindrical cells• Choosing between 18650 chemistries with model numbers based on trade offs between: Capacity, Power, and Safety• The basic mathematics of determining your voltage, power and capacity requirements.It's a good tutorial and reference for lithium batteries and is worthwhile for anyone contemplating buying a commercial battery pack.Check the table of contents, he delivers on what's promised. A tour de force!