<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
Just ran my litimes hard for 5 days of spot lock and dragging jigs. Ran the teoller 12 to 16 hours a day and never had less then 70 percent battery.Did you do this without charging? If so, that’s very impressive. If you did charge did you use a generator?
I charged every evening. I never seen them lower then 70. I charged them off a wen 2k generator.
25,000 brands of lithium battery on the market right now.
There’s only 25000 different stickers 
Charger and battery en route.
I’ll report back with my findings once I get it rigged up and use it a few times
The big test is in 4 or 5 years. Hopefully they work well for a long time. I am such a you get what you pay for kind of guy from trying cheap products over the last 45 years, only to find it isn’t worth a crap. I am so jaded I can’t change my view. This may be the one case where a cheap battery will perform well enough for me to say, maybe I should have bought them instead.
I agree that buying cheaper lithium batteries is a gamble. Warranties and entire “companies” may be obsolete in a few years. However, once you do the Math the gamble isn’t that crazy.
I ordered a 24v 100ah LiTime battery for ~$450. The Dakota Lithium applicable battery is ~$1500-1600.
I am willing to gamble that the LiTime battery lasts me for a minimum of 1/3 of the time the Dakota Lithium one would, thus resulting in money saved. If it lasts for nearly as long, there’s a potential to save $1000 on that one 24v battery.
The big test is in 4 or 5 years. Hopefully they work well for a long time. I am such a you get what you pay for kind of guy from trying cheap products over the last 45 years, only to find it isn’t worth a crap. I am so jaded I can’t change my view. This may be the one case where a cheap battery will perform well enough for me to say, maybe I should have bought them instead.
Even if the litimes stay good for 3 to 4 seasons then it’s well worth the money. And well worth the money savings then not going with a premium brand who has no issues charging the customer lots of extra money.
In fact, I know lots of guys who run the litimes and I am yet to hear of a issue, compare that to Dakota and I hear of lots of issues.
I agree about the Dakota’s. I talked a friend out of even looking at them. Too many reports of the customer support being bad if you do end up having an issue. I told him about the Li Time’s and that he maybe should try them. Better him to try them than me. 
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