5 Years ago, I designed and built a 12V battery based on cells sold at battery hookup. It’s been running every day since October 17 2021. The cells are 3.2V 600mAh. I have a battery balancer attached to the cells which very rarely illuminates. The arrangement is 9 in parallel, 4 Series so 4S9P. It works great in winter and summer, no issues at all. If you are planning on doing something like this, you can definitely do it on your Prius. I cannot say the same for other cars. I would not jumper other cars from a battery like this either. But anyway, screw lead acid batteries, they never last 2 years in Washington State weather. Here I have proven that LifePo4 can do 5 years without any issues. The battery looks like new on the outside and on the inside. It changes fine and the car has not stalled or left me anywhere stranded since. Original post a the other place before I was banned for whatever stupid reason. https://www.reddit.com/r/prius/comments/qacx7w/im_testing_my_32650_12v_lifepo4_battery_after/
Hi, idiot here, and maybe I’m wrong since I have zero clue how any of this works.
That being said, wouldn’t you limit how hot it would get if you limited how much charge it allows itself to push?
Like if you put in some kind of capacitor, or voltage regulator. Sure, it may charge slower, but if you know it can handle 15Gs, and you regulate it for 14Gs, wouldn’t that eliminate the heat? And charge slightly slower, but 100% safer?
It should be fine. I’m just not comfortable with solder joints where the joint could be disordered and just fall off. The sonic or spot welders are safer that way.