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agumonkey
on March 21, 2018
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Using old laptop batteries to build homemade power...
Have you seen docs about their batteries ?
cagenut
on March 21, 2018
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not a doc but a good writeup with pictures of failure testing the 'powerpack' product:
https://electrek.co/2016/12/19/tesla-fire-powerpack-test-saf...
I sure as shit would not want 1/10th of that in my garage ever.
agumonkey
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jpm_sd
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yes, they made all their patents public awhile back. also:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+battery+teardown&oq=te...
gruez
on March 21, 2018
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aren't all patents
required
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jpm_sd
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derp, I meant [quasi-]"public domain" and therefore, in some legal sense, safe for engineers to read without fear of getting sued.
https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
agumonkey
on March 21, 2018
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Somehow I never considered batteries as part of their IP :)
Thanks
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