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so when it comes to lithium iron

phosphate batteries people call them

lithium but there's various flavours to

lithium batteries and they're basically

I mean it's a long name but it's lifepo4

and short lfp those batteries are it's

part of a toolkit you know there's no

such thing as a bad battery for saie and

there's no such thing as a perfect

battery for everyone right there's a

battery for everyone's budget and budget

is one part of the equation but another

part of the equation is also energy

density right so Olivia battery will

give you way more energy density I for a

physical size and weight you're going to

have more usable and power capacity of

the lithium battery than you will of an

AGM battery and certainly a flooded

lead-acid battery now that's great

you'll also get way more cycles out of

that battery so if your boat for example

is a boat that is your ultimate boat

there is no end in sight to your

ownership of that boat you're committed

to that vote for your life then a

lithium iron phosphate battery makes

sense because those projected 2,000

cycles that five thousand cycles are

going to come and benefit you but you've

got to remember you're paying that cost

upfront so you need to make sure that

all these improvements that you're going

to do on your boat are going to benefit

you so generally what I use as a way to

qualify an owner is to say to them you

know what's your projection is this your

last vote are you going to be on this

vote for a long time if you are and

makes the money component less important

because they see a longer ROI return on

their investment so that would be one is

how long you can own the boat because

those cycles are going to come in handy

the other one is some owners don't have

to space for batteries they just don't

for whatever reason they just don't have

space and they need more energy than

they can fit so lithium iron phosphate

battery is perfect for that because it

comes in

Koff backside but that's not something

that everyone needs so that would be

another variable compact is really good

for lithium-ion for iron phosphate now

the other thing that essential to think

about is that you can just simply put

those lithium batteries on your boat and

walk away right I mean this is not for

the weak of heart if you want lithium

and it's the right battery for you

because of various reasons you're going

to need to end up making sure that your

Chargers your alternators and everything

else on the boat is tailored to be able

to handle that it's not a plug-in plate

you don't just change a flooded

lead-acid battery and go with a lithium

iron phosphate battery and just walk

away you can't it's absolutely not

because the big problem with those

batteries which is their biggest

advantage is that they don't really go

through absorption I mean they kind of

do but they don't so they'll go from 20%

to almost a hundred percent at full

throttle and you can give them some

batteries three times their capacity as

a charge rate flooded lead-acid

batteries or a quarter of capacity as

their charge rate as the theoretical

limit these are three times so that's 12

times more of a charged acceptance rate

and then flooded meaning the alternator

is never going to be told to stop

outputting it will take it right to the

end

the Chargers will go right to the end

inverter Chargers right to the end and

so you need to make sure that you have

Chargers alternators and everything else

that can handle getting that amount of

current continuously to that battery

because that battery when it's hungry

gets hungry and it won't stop until it

doesn't need anything else so those are

kind of the variables that you need to

consider when you're making a decision

if you're going to go with those lithium

iron phosphate batteries

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