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00:00Welcome friends to my review of the WattCycle 100Ah Mini Battery.
00:09So far I am very much impressed with the size.
00:15So it's 8.5 inches across this way, 8.5 inches across this way and about 5.5 inches wide
00:27at the top.
00:28Let's just double check that, yes 5.5 at the top, 8.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 so completely square.
00:40What I like about this unit is that it's actually slightly smaller than the Li-Time Mini Battery.
00:47So that I have over here and I just wanted to put it side by side for comparison.
00:56The Li-Time Mini Battery actually feels like it is much bigger compared to it.
01:09I just got this battery right now and I just wanted to make a quick video, start at least
01:13with this part to put it side by side.
01:17So if you are trying to get a mini battery, which one is the more mini of the minis?
01:22And it seems this one is.
01:23If you look at the height, it's probably about a half an inch shorter and probably
01:30an inch on this side less wide as the Li-Time.
01:37And let's see, the width is probably slightly thicker than the Li-Time, just slightly from
01:44the top over here.
01:47So that's, so far I am impressed.
01:50We are going to need to get later into the video about its capacity.
01:56However what I did was I just watched somebody else's video and it seems that the BMS could
02:05even handle 200 amps without an issue.
02:09A lot of BMS's would shut off very quickly, this one seems to like can handle anything
02:14like a champ.
02:16I like the mini compactness.
02:18I like that it has a handle, just kind of like the Li-Time.
02:24You are looking at these terminals over here and you might be wondering what this is.
02:28Well these kind of screw in and instead of using the standard bolts that they gave me,
02:33which you could if you are just using lugs, like those things that you connect.
02:39I find that I want to connect a lot more devices.
02:42As you see over here, I am also going to be connecting this 350 amp Anderson connector
02:47over here.
02:49So in this preliminary part of the video, I just wanted to quickly show it side by side.
02:58Then I want to make these Anderson connectors on this one over here and use that to interface
03:04with the battery.
03:05Because I find Anderson connectors are much easier to handle.
03:09You can plug and unplug them.
03:10You can't reverse polarity on them because the minus won't plug into the other minus.
03:16Like you can't go like this, it just won't plug in.
03:19The connectors are high quality and of course 40 amp fuses in each output.
03:25I am using a 10 AWG cable which can handle 30 amps and these connectors can handle up
03:31to 45 amps, which is awesome.
03:34This connector over here can handle up to 350 amps.
03:38This is the Anderson connector.
03:40The lugs that you crimp on to the 2-0 cable is this huge.
03:46My plan with this battery is to actually have two of these batteries in the car because
03:50I already have two.
03:52You see the plus and the plus can only go to the plus and the plus and plugs in like
03:58this.
03:59My goal is to actually parallel these so that if let's say I have one solar panel on the
04:06roof of my car or let's say I have one solar panel, I could quickly disconnect the parallel
04:11battery and carry it to where I need it.
04:14Because I have this high power 350 amp connector, I could probably do two kilowatt inverter
04:21without an issue just powered from this device without having to screw in the lugs.
04:27The lugs when they're fully complete, that's what they look like.
04:30They have this really big, nice, beautiful cap that goes on top.
04:33I just have this off right now because I'm working on this battery.
04:39I'm planning to put a 2-0 cable over here to connect it to this one.
04:46These could basically stand side by side and connect into each other.
04:51When I'm charging one battery, I'm charging up both batteries at the same time, like paralleling
04:5712 volts.
04:58I'm a 12-volt guy.
04:59I find it easy.
05:01There's plenty of car accessories for 12 volts.
05:04There's plenty of devices for 12 volts.
05:06Things like 48 volts, they're more useful when you have 10 kilowatts of solar and things
05:11like this.
05:12However, when you're just powering devices, 12 volts is more than you need, especially
05:17when you have solar panels up to 200 watts.
05:20Those are designed for 12-volt batteries.
05:23It's going to have the similar kind of terminal and it's going to be able to connect to this
05:26one.
05:27What we're going to see in the next part of the video is I'm going to first charge it
05:31up fully, and then I'm going to put it through a capacity test, and then we'll come back
05:39at the end for the final thoughts about it.
05:43So far, I'm actually impressed with the size of it.
05:45That's kind of nice.
05:48Mini batteries.
05:49I mean, 100 amp hours, I think it's about 22 pounds, so rather reasonably easy to handle.
05:56I mean, as easy as it is to carry around 22 pounds, and plus it will give you a workout.
06:02Maybe I could use these as dumbbells.
06:04That's fantastic.
06:06For the Anderson connectors, watch my video about creating Anderson connectors.
06:10I have a tutorial about it and the reasons why I use them.
06:14Each one of these connections has a 40 amp fuse on it, so that's the way that cars use
06:19things when you connect things to the battery.
06:21There's always a fuse there that protects the system and keeps any ... If there's a
06:26short circuit here, the fuse blows and it keeps the battery safe, which is really, really
06:31important.
06:32You got to be really safe when doing that.
06:34And when you're connecting things like inverters, the inverters have a fuse box of fuses inside
06:40them, so that's not an issue.
06:43And this kind of like with Anderson connectors, that kind of turns them into quasi solar generators
06:51in a way that, yes, the charge controller is outside of the thing, but to be able to
06:55connect 12 volt devices to it, it's pretty easy.
06:58You see, I created this connector to be able to do 5521 plugs in case I have a device that
07:04I need that's that type.
07:08So let's get to the next part of the video.
07:11So at this step of the process, I set up the cabling system in the Anderson connectors.
07:16You see how beautifully it's connected now?
07:20Excuse the dust, I haven't had a chance to clean it up.
07:25And I connected this capacity meter.
07:29So it's going to run down the battery until it shuts off.
07:34And I just set it up.
07:35So far it did 2.83 amp hours.
07:39And we're going to come back as soon as this ran through, and we're going to find out how
07:45many watt hours this unit has pulled from this supposedly 1,280 watt hour battery.
07:55Are we going to get 1,280 watt hours or are we going to get a little bit more?
08:00Let's see.
08:02So I let this run overnight real quick.
08:05And this is like hours and hours later.
08:08And this is the capacity that I got out of this battery.
08:13So this 100 amp hour battery actually wound up getting 104.51 and 1324 watt hours instead
08:24of 1,280.
08:26So it has 50 watt hours extra that you don't even have to pay for out of this capacity
08:34battery.
08:36That's fantastic.
08:38Now let's get to the conclusions.
08:42All right, friends.
08:44So this is the original bolts that I actually came with.
08:47It came with a slightly longer one and a shorter ones.
08:51However, I believe these might be stainless steel.
08:55And terminals that I used are aftermarket, probably $8, $9 a piece.
09:00I think there might be a six pack for $6 a piece, something like that or cheaper.
09:05And see everything is pure copper, nicely designed, lugs and stuff like that.
09:11What is this monstrosity that is on top of this?
09:14Well, the top port is a 350 amp rated connector.
09:21This cable is over here.
09:23This is two size zero AWG cable.
09:26I believe it's rated for three to 400 amps.
09:31Although in this video, I did not put this battery to the test of connecting an AC inverter
09:39to it and trying to run the BMS past 100 amps.
09:45However, in another video, I've watched people put maybe three or even 400 amps out of this
09:53battery before the BMS was shut down.
09:57What sold me on also on this battery is that it has low temperature shut off.
10:04So what am I picturing as the use case for this battery?
10:09If you have, let's say, a waterproof box that you could store a battery outside in and it
10:19might get freezing overnight and in the morning when the sun comes up, it's still cold, it
10:25might be below freezing.
10:27You don't want the battery to get damaged, being charged at like minus whatever, below
10:3332 Fahrenheit or actually below zero Fahrenheit.
10:37I forget the temperature numbers.
10:40So I just figure as an outdoors battery, this is fantastic that it has the low temperature
10:48cut off.
10:49I don't believe this one has a low temperature cut off.
10:52So that's what sold me on this.
10:54Number two that sold me on this.
10:56It is more mini than the Mini Li Time Mini Edition and it's actually cheaper.
11:05This one, I believe I bought for about $170 plus tax.
11:09So let's say, and this one is probably even on sale, probably $220 to $240.
11:16What I have up here are, I created Anderson connectors.
11:20So Anderson connectors are easy to plug connectors.
11:24These are designed for up to 45 amps.
11:28These are 10 slash AWG cables, which are designed for at least 30 amps continuous each.
11:35So I could connect a 30 amp charge controller to this without a problem or draw a load of
11:3930 amps from each one of these wires.
11:43For protection, I connected these fuses.
11:47These are 40 amp waterproof fuses that would keep the system, if let's say I draw more
11:56than 40 amps from a wire, let's say there's a short circuit, the fuse would burn out and
12:02it would protect it.
12:03Because especially with this unit, the BMS is probably rated.
12:09You could probably start a car with this.
12:12I'm guessing.
12:13I haven't tested to do that.
12:14I have another lithium for my car.
12:17Watch the video.
12:18It's Dakota lithium.
12:19That's designed to do two, three, 400 amps and it's self-heated.
12:24So this one doesn't have self-heating, but the Dakota lithium was like $1,000 for 130
12:32amp hours.
12:33So that one is a little bit more advanced, of course.
12:35For a car starter battery, I needed the most dependable unit possible.
12:40However, this unit is probably going to live in the back of my car and to always have a
12:51backup power supply that I could charge from the inverter of my car.
12:55I ran wires directly from the battery terminals to the trunk of the car where I can connect
13:03a charge controller, first boost it up to 24 volts, 24 volt buck boost, and then connect
13:12an MPPT, let's say of 20 amps or 30, even 30 amps I could do.
13:16However, 20 amps is the ideal because I don't want to trip with the circuit breakers that
13:22I have set at 30 amps actually.
13:25So 20 amp charge controllers.
13:27And then what I could also do, let's say the car is off and I want to charge a power station
13:31with that, I could connect a boost converter from 12 to 24 volts and charge, let's say
13:40a power station, like a portable power station, a solar generator with this at probably a
13:47couple of hundred watts without an issue.
13:50Like for example, I have an Okitel P2001 solar generator that could actually do 250 watts
14:01input at 24 volts because it's limited to 10 amps.
14:05So why am I upping the voltage in order to charge other units?
14:08Because when you have higher voltage, it fits within the amp parameters of let's say the
14:14solar generator.
14:1510 amps times 24 volts is about 250 watts.
14:20So that's nice.
14:21This high power connector, it has dual purposes.
14:26Well, A, I have this, so this connector, I could use to connect something like this
14:394,000 watt inverter.
14:43The ends, I don't have just as lugs, see I have it connected to this battery bank over
14:48here via this connector.
14:50So with it being rated up to 3, 4,000 watts, I can just plug it in and run humongous loads
14:59from it.
15:01The additional benefit, here's the idea that I came up with, is that you can connect these
15:07two in parallel.
15:10So you could connect these two battery banks like this, boom, and you have it connected.
15:17So you have paralleled the batteries, and now you have just doubled the capacity to
15:232,500 watts.
15:28You can't put the minus to the plus, I mean, you can't reverse this, the Anderson connectors
15:34are made very well to not be able to reverse the polarity, so not to cause any issues.
15:43So this is the big brother of this one.
15:45They also have intermediate ones, which take up to 100 amps, I just figure, if I'm going
15:50to put a connector, might as well put the heavy duty one.
15:53So this one is probably 20 bucks for the housing, and these heavy duty silver plated tongues
16:02on the inside.
16:04And these Anderson connectors, just for the set, like the pair, with the two little silver
16:10coated connectors, it's probably $1.60 to $2.00 a piece.
16:17You know, I guess I'll link you below, you should watch my Anderson connection making
16:21video, that's what the beautiful thing is about Anderson connections, you can convert
16:25them to anything else.
16:26See, like I have this 5521 plug in case I want to run power directly off it.
16:32So this gives me options.
16:34So I want to connect a device, like for example, I could connect a cigarette plug adapter,
16:40the Baseus, 160 watt adapter that has two USB-C ports, and one regular quick charge
16:4918 watt port up to 160 watts, that can power a 100 watt MacBook Pro without any issue,
16:57and at the same time, power an iPad that can draw up to 30 watts, and it could also do
17:0218 watt quick charge on a cell phone.
17:05So that's very convenient.
17:08Also to have this in a car, I figure you could take an electric heating blanket, so
17:14for example, let's say people are stuck in traffic overnight, and you don't want to run
17:21your car idle to just keep the warmth on, you could just plug a blanket, a heated blanket,
17:27those take about 60 watts, 60 watts into 1280, what, we're getting 20 hours of run time.
17:35So just one of these battery banks can do 20 hours of run time of a heating pad that
17:40could just keep you warm overnight, warm enough, in order for you to survive through the most
17:46cold weather, and to be nice and toasty in your car in case you need to cover that.
17:53Also these connectors are pretty easy to connect, connect an inverter to it, which is convenient,
18:00parallel the two together.
18:01So I figured I'm going to have these live in the back of my car, and I'm going to put
18:06a 100 watt SIGS, Boos RV SIGS solar panel, that's the only size that would actually fit
18:14in the amount of space that I had there, stretch a wire inside, and put a 10 amp charge controller
18:20on it, a Victron, and have these two topped up all the time.
18:26So this way I have two and a half kilowatts in my trunk, and in case I need to connect
18:33this to something else, I need portable power, I just disconnect one of the batteries, or
18:37I could disconnect both, it's easier to carry with two handles to where you need to.
18:44You have safe protected sockets, it's kind of better than a solar generator, because
18:51in a solar generator, you only have, let's say one 10 amp cigarette style plug, and you
18:57have those 5521s, those are usually 3 amps.
19:02So 10 amps, what is it, 120 watts, and the little 5521s, that's like 35 watts each.
19:10And usually those have like a 65 watt, or maybe it has one 100 watt power delivery,
19:17which is nice, that's what a lot of units have, maybe two.
19:20However, with these six, I'm not limited to it.
19:25For example, I could also use solar to charge this very easily.
19:30So in another review, I have the BatteriaPower 10 and 20 amp solar charge controllers, where
19:39I plugged in the Anderson connectors, so you could connect probably six independent solar
19:47panels to it, and probably even charge this at even 800 watts or 1000 watts, because it's
19:54multiple different charge controllers.
19:56With a solar generator, because let's say it has a limited 10 amp input, up to 500 watts,
20:03so the optimal charge rate would be at a 50 volt input, times 10 amps to get to 500 watts.
20:14However, most foldable solar panels, they're probably about 20 to 25 watts.
20:20So yeah, you could connect one into another.
20:22However, when you have solar panels in parallel, the shading of them affects you less.
20:29So you kind of get more of an efficiency, and plus you could have six 200 watt panels
20:35connect 20 amp charge controllers to each one of them.
20:39So technically do up to 120 amps, however, solar panels don't produce the entire 100%
20:46rated output anyway, so you could max out that rated charge rate very easily.
20:52Then you could also use the same charge controllers that you would use for the solar panel to
20:57connect it to the car's inverter.
20:59I have four wires running to the back of the trunk where I could do an up boost to 24 volts,
21:07and then do 20 amps, 20 amps, 20 amps, and 20 amps, maybe up to even 80 amps.
21:12I haven't tried that much, however, like maybe stick to 40 amps to charge this.
21:18So this makes it easy.
21:20So by creating your own battery system, you actually create more high speed ports.
21:25It's kind of like, you know, USB ports.
21:28They have USB 2.0, they have USB 3.0, and they have 3.2, and they have Thunderbolt.
21:35So each one has higher and higher bandwidth speed, let's say when you're transferring
21:40data.
21:41That's the idea with these two, is that you get the optimal speed and you have the optimal
21:47wires that will not overheat, are designed to be foolproof and safe with all these fuses.
21:57This is the same way that you have it in your car.
22:02In your car, there's a fuse block with like tons of different fuses in there to make sure
22:07that there's no like electrical short that would actually burn up, like start a fire
22:12or something, because like as soon as too much amps goes through, the fuse blows and
22:17that's it.
22:18And the circuitry stops until you replace the fuse again and until you get that circuit
22:24fixed.
22:26So this is nice.
22:28It's nice and heavy duty.
22:29Also if you use this little bridge, little looking thingy, right?
22:35This allows the wire to never come disconnected.
22:38So let's say you want it to have permanently connected and not like disconnect by accident,
22:44you have these little bridges to also use, which is really awesome because you could
22:49patch multiple different cables, you could figure it out.
22:52I like the usability of it because a lot of people, all they do is they just connect everything
22:58to the inverter and run everything in inverter power.
23:02And then they take a, like a power brick from their laptop and they plug it into that.
23:07However, one of the things they don't realize is that that power brick converts AC electricity
23:14into DC electricity anyway.
23:16So you have, let's say an inverter, a nice efficient inverter probably takes 10% just
23:22to convert that electricity to the AC.
23:28And then you have the power brick that you connected into the AC inverter that takes
23:33another, let's say 10, 15%, probably 10% in order to connect it to the DC.
23:39However, with this kind of thing, like for example, a lot of laptops and computers look
23:44at the power brick itself.
23:46What does it say on the output?
23:47It might say 19 volts.
23:49So you could connect a 19 volt boost, buck-boost converter to this and connect that to the
23:58laptop through, I often take the original cables, I just cut it and connect an Anderson
24:05so I could always reuse the power brick in case I needed to put one of these or, and
24:11then I could just plug it into a 19 volt up boost.
24:14So there's usually a 90% conversion efficiency through that.
24:21And then you don't have to have the overhead of the inverter.
24:25The inverter by itself draws power.
24:29Like the 4,000 watt below that you saw, it takes probably nine or 10 watts, between eight
24:37and 10 watts to just be powered on for its operation.
24:42However, when you run things directly from the battery, you get the most efficiency.
24:46So technically you're going to have an off-grid computer or a PC system.
24:50I have an off-grid PC where I just have it plugged in through the Anderson connector
24:56to my 12 volt power supply.
24:58And it's a full desktop PC with a gaming graphics card, an RTX 4070 Super.
25:04And it's powered off a battery.
25:06So same technology as you would have, let's say in a laptop.
25:11It's kind of like an uninterruptible power supply.
25:13The power goes out.
25:15It's going to drain from the battery onto the other thing.
25:19However, what you did is you eliminated the nine watts per hour from the inverter.
25:24And then plus you eliminated the 10% loss from the conversion from the DC electricity
25:32into the AC electricity, then convert the AC electricity into DC electricity again.
25:37So this way you connect DC 12 volts to a higher volt, 19 volt.
25:42By the way, a 12 volt is actually a misnomer.
25:47This 12 volt devices usually have a tolerance.
25:51Like for example, I found that you could run switches, network switches, and a telephone
25:57and a lot of devices, let's say like lights that are, let's say 12 volt input at whatever
26:04the battery could put out.
26:06When it's charged up, it's going to be about 14.2 to 14.4 volts.
26:11When it went at full charge, this is at 13.5.
26:15How battery level is established is as the battery is charged up, it's at 13.5.
26:21As it goes down at 12 volts, 12 volts, it's actually 90% discharged.
26:28It has 10% battery level left.
26:33So yeah, 12 volt is the most compatible system that you can have.
26:39So I'm pretty excited about this battery to have a sit in the trunk.
26:45This is the easy to carry handles are nice.
26:49The pricing is reasonable.
26:51It's between 180 and 250 depending on the sale.
26:55I like the compactness of it, the charging protections that it has a high end BMS.
27:02So technically you could probably run the 4,000 watts inverter, but I probably wouldn't
27:06run a 4,000 watt load, but I think I would be completely confident in running a, don't
27:12hold me to it.
27:13You know, it's, you know, your own safety is your own concern.
27:17I would probably run a 2000 watt load from this anytime, a 1500 watt based on the review
27:22that I saw of somebody actually putting it through the paces of getting a two, three,
27:28four thousand watts out of just this little tiny unit, or at least this brand's unit.
27:33Watch one of the other reviews for the batteries.
27:36This is just my take on it.
27:38I just like the easy ability of being able to connect everything DC.
27:43Like for example, network, network switches.
27:49I have a network switch that, you know, gives me networking in the house.
27:53I don't use wifi, although you could connect the wifi.
27:57Like for example, if you have a wifi 12 volt device, this probably will work, obviously
28:03caveat amp tour, it's up to you to see if you're comfortable to put a slightly higher
28:09voltage into the tool, a 12 volt device.
28:11If you're not, you could always connect a stabilizer, voltage stabilizer that can take
28:18between, I don't know, even 11 volts, even up to 35 or something like that, to just a
28:2712 volt converter.
28:28So you could have 12.00 volts.
28:31I found that when you, at least with a mini PC, when I put 20 volts into it, instead of
28:3819, it didn't break, but it did crash.
28:41However, when I put the 19 volt converter to it, it works flawlessly, stays on all the
28:47time.
28:48That's a GTR seven pro.
28:49I have it running from a 12 volt battery.
28:53So the convenience of this, like this is nice, I think also uses Eve cells.
28:58So instead of those little circular cells that you might see, um, like circular ones,
29:05it's actually big blue, kind of like long, um, kind of like blocky rectangular cells.
29:13So, uh, possibly there's a design efficiency in that.
29:16This probably uses Eve cells too.
29:18Um, like I'm not, I can't say anything bad about this battery.
29:22I'm happy.
29:23I bought it.
29:24Um, just in the compare, I just have it up here for comparison because this is the second
29:29battery that I bought of the hundred amp nature.
29:31I just also wanted it to have a battery to do testing with like solar reviews and stuff
29:36like that, to have something to dump electricity into.
29:39Um, like using the battery of power, um, charge controllers or victorians and stuff
29:45like that.
29:46Everything I have is actually Anderson connected.
29:49I have an Anderson making video.
29:51If you want to replicate my design, um, you could do that.
29:56The terminals.
29:57Also, what I like about this unit is that some units like for example, these, these
30:02are cloud energies.
30:04Um, this terminal is not, it's not screw on.
30:09It doesn't, you can't put it like a screw on rod in there and uh, you know, connect
30:14an aftermarket design one.
30:17So that gives you a limit to the amount of things you could connect.
30:20I mean, you could probably connect a couple of these 2.2 star zero AWG cables.
30:25However you see with me, I just put pure copper everywhere because copper is the most conductive.
30:31You know, I like having nice quality.
30:34I mean, if, if you're already going to have the stuff, you might want to go for the highest
30:38quality.
30:39Uh, I use a hydraulic crimper and um, you know, these are, you just use heat shrink
30:45to type of deal to, um, isolate this all beautifully done and easy to use connectors.
30:55So overall, yes, I do recommend this battery links are below.
30:59Yes.
31:00They're Amazon affiliate links.
31:01They don't cost you anything.
31:02However, I do would get a kickback in case you did buy it or buy maybe even something
31:06else.
31:07Uh, it doesn't really matter.
31:08It's up to you.
31:09I'm just sharing what I bought myself.
31:11I'm not sponsored.
31:12Uh, I just buy my own stuff and I make reviews about it.
31:16So technically I'm kind of like an end user like yourself and I don't have, I'm not beholden
31:21to any company, which is actually kind of nice.
31:24Maybe that's my angle to it.
31:26And uh, the other benefit is that you could benefit from my experience.
31:30What I like to do with my videos is to give you parts list where you could just easily
31:35click and link and then just, uh, find the items, uh, add them to your cart, learn about
31:42it and stuff like that.
31:43A lot of people don't put links in their videos and that sometimes frustrates me because I
31:48would have been happy to use their link to buy something, but uh, I have to do my own
31:53search on Amazon and stuff like that in order to get the item.
31:59So thumb up the video, like, subscribe, all that good stuff.
32:04And I'll see you in the next one.
32:05I hope you found this video useful.
32:09Put your comments below.
32:10Did you find an even a smaller battery?
32:12Did you find something more interesting?
32:14Did you, uh, do you have any ideas like what else could be the great use cases for it?
32:19I mean, a CPAP machine would run from this, a 12 volt fridge, you could connect to it.
32:24Uh, 12 volt is just so convenient.
32:2748 volt has its uses when you have huge solar arrays, like thousands and thousands of Watts.
32:34Maybe that's when you need 48 volts.
32:36However, it's still possible with multiple charge controllers to use a 12 volt solar
32:42system even with thousands of Watts coming in.
32:44Um, I'm excited for you guys to, you know, if you guys get this, you know, the capacity
32:51is nice.
32:52The 1324, I'm excited about that.
32:55Great unit.
32:56I'll see you in the next one and have a great day, my friends.