<div dir="ltr">You can absolutely charge to 100% and you can discharge to 100%. Lithium is in another world compared to Lead Acid. You don&#39;t see LA cars driving around.<div>But you shouldn&#39;t leave Lithium at 100% for months on end, it can be detrimental. That&#39;s not likely to be an issue for solar systems.</div><div>Your absorption voltages are only for non-485 inverters that don&#39;t know about Lithium. The question was whether you can charge to 100% and yes, you absolutely can, because 100% is no 100%, there is a recommended voltage and a do-not-exceed voltage.<br><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 2:43 PM frenergy &lt;<a href="mailto:frenergy@psln.com">frenergy@psln.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Hey Folks,</p>
    <p>            From the SimpliPHI/Outback integration guide
      download, using an Outback (I assume any brand of) charge
      controller (EG: FM80, FM60, FM100), their chart shows absorbtion
      voltage at 56.4 for 51.2 nom PHI batteries with time set at 6
      minutes, page 18.  If using the inverter, they show 54.0 volts for
      2 hrs, page 13.</p>
    <p>            I found this at their website: 
      <a href="https://simpliphipower.com/product-documentation/" target="_blank">https://simpliphipower.com/product-documentation/</a></p>
    <p>then scroll down.  There may be a longevity advantage to not
      fully charging L-ion batteries but if you&#39;re only charging to 80%
      and not really supposed to go below 20% SOC then L-ion batteries
      aren&#39;t looking much better than FLA batteries in terms of
      capacity.</p>
    <p>Bill</p>
    <p>Feather River Solar Electric<br>
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      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">There&#39;s no benefit to charging to 100%. If the
        charging parameters are set up correctly, you&#39;ll never really
        get to 100%.
        <div>If you look at most prismatic cells, the absolutely maximum
          voltage is 3.65V. My systems are set up to charge to 3.4V or
          54.4V. I take that as 100%.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 12:19
          PM &lt;<a href="mailto:drake.chamberlin@redwoodalliance.org" target="_blank">drake.chamberlin@redwoodalliance.org</a>&gt;
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          I have a client that insists it is better not to charge
          lithium <br>
          batteries to 100%. Is there any truth to this?<br>
          <br>
          Thanks,<br>
          <br>
          Drake<br>
          <br>
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