I've never heard of lithium iron phosphate batteries before but located
this MIT tech blurb on the web. According to the article Li-FePO
batteries have about 1/2 the capacity of Li-ion cells. I assume your
comment about increasing the number of full dumps is relative to SLA cells?
<http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17362>
Chuck Norcutt
Tim Hughes wrote:
> The Lithium-ion and regular Lithium rechargeables are extremely flammable,
> but the new generation
> of high power LiFePO4 cells are not, but I am sure the TSA is not going to
> differentiate!
>
> I have just converted one of my Metz CT60 flashes to Li-FePO4 and it cut the
> weight by about
> 1.5lbs and actually increases the number of full dumps. Charge time with an
> external charger is
> 15minutes, this really is a huge improvement over the normal sealed Lead
> acids.
>
> Tim Hughes
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