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Drilling and tapping LiFePO4 battery terminal practicality? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/askelectronics@discuss.tchncs.de
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I'm wondering how practical it would be to drill and tap terminals to add posts to batteries like this: https://batteryhookup.com/products/2x-sunwoda-lf314-314ah-lfp-prismatic-cells-grade-a-qualified-rohs-certified-ultra-long-life-10-000-cycles

The description says that you can only drill 5mm at most. Anybody do something like this before? I do have a shitty Harbor Freight drill press and couple hand tap wrenches.

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[–] [S] 4 points 6 months ago*

Yeah, these are 0.5C cells, meaning they can safely discharge 157A (I would be using them for offgrid solar), so those little nickle strips would melt. I think TiG welding these would be extremely dangerous and produce too much heat (and I've never TiG welded before; just badly MiG welded a couple times). By "welding" in the description they mean commercial laser welders.

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