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Originally Posted by Miboater
One other thing I would add is due your due diligence on who manufacturers the cells in the Dakota Lithium Batteries. There are a lot of companies that make batteries but there are much fewer that produce the cells. They purchase the cells and create the battery around them and some of these are using cheap Chinese cells.
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Totally agree.
Its still a bit of the wild, wild west of products, I totally agree.
Prices are coming down, but not to commodity status yet.
The recommended Chinese mfg of retail batteries, Litime.com, only gives a 5 year warranty, no US presence, drop shipped from China, and email only support with a 12 hour delay. I went with the US Mfg (assembled maybe), US service, and 11 year warranty and 150% of the Litime.com. Figured that was best, as compared to battlebornbatteries.com, which has prices 2X DakotaLithium.com.