picked up 1825 li-ion battery packs today. that’s 5475 18650 cells in new old stock 3S1P packs.

that will be a lot of work to repurpose and test the packs/cells. but hey, if it’s free it‘s free.

@cmb hope you're storing them outside or something that's a lot of dubious batteries
@azonenberg it‘s not dubious actually, they‘re leftovers from a portable spectrometer (first device gen has been discontinued) with bms and all produced in germany with datasheets and everything.
@cmb that's still a lot of stored energy, how many gallons of gasoline equivalent is it
@azonenberg that’s around 7 liters of gasoline in energy
@cmb ok yeah I wouldn't store that in my house either :p
@azonenberg @cmb oh, come on, you wouldn't store 7 liters of gasoline inside your house? What a wuss lol
@malcircuit @cmb i mean i have a couple of liters of ipa and acetone but they're in my lab, in a proper double walled flammables cabinet.