Weize 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 Australia

Recently we watched Will Prowse review a OEM battery that we can and have been able to source in small quantities for some time, one of our trusted suppliers sent us one of these Batteries for review last year, this battery is a made-to-specification battery by one of the largest LIFEPO4 drop-in replacement manufacturers in China. You probably have some questions you want to know the answer about China and the Lithium drop-in replacement industry, because its really hard to know who is making and selling what. And its an eye opening journey.

Over the past few years, a few of the OEM Battery suppliers have come up with some reliable and high quality drop-in replacements. This is one of the reasons Will has only recently discovered these better quality OEM batteries. Because they have been a work in progress, as each company gets a little better, so do the batteries they produce.

If you think, it’s actually in the best interest of both the consumer and the manufacturer to make a battery that does work and doesn’t fail. The competitive nature of business drives the improving product all the time.

We have been testing batteries like this since 2015. And they have been available in a similar form since about 2014 from these manufacturers.

What has happened is that the product has matured, they have got to the point where the BMS is very reliable, and the cells are better than what most people need.

To find out why we won’t be importing this Weize 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 Battery in bulk read along further

Questions

Q. Can we get this in 50ah, 100ah, and 200ah capacity from the same manufacturer?
A. Yes, we can

Q. Will we be ordering these into stock?
A. No, we won’t, because there are too many brands of 12v 100ah drop-in, already on the market, and we would prefer to only bring in products we love and recommend for our customers.

Q. How much would we charge for this?
A. Not as much as you might think, being Amazon is very competitive, the price of this is $350-450USD.

Lets do some quick math. based on the 2 prices $350USD and $450USD.

As you can see, there is no real business case for importing these into Australia. In fact they are already here, just labelled with a different brand. I know these are here in the $600-1000 range already.

It does make you wonder, should you buy a $400 eBay battery or should you buy a $2000 Enerdrive? In my view, I would buy somewhere in the middle, but I also build my own batteries which I prefer, as I can choose which cells I use, and which BMS I use, and that is exactly why we at Lifepo4 Australia choose to use the EVE and Ganfeng lithium cells primarily, because they are both A grade products, and they both use Australian Lithium inside them.

I don’t know about you but if Victron would just release a 100ah battery for $600-800, they would destroy every other battery retailer in one go. As long as it had 4 Series and 4 parallel, with an easy to use management software for when it’s used in various configurations. Victron would absolutely own the market.