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Originally Posted by bersh
I believe that Flecc mentioned that there is a new manufacturer of batteries for Ezee Quando II. Please update whatever info. there is, since I am facing replacement, even though my battery is only 9months old and still under warranty. How does one know who the manufacturer is? By serial number, color, or??? ps, the reason for replacement is that I need to be able to rely on getting up a particular hill, and soon I will have absolute conclusion whether the old battery can handle this new hill. If it can't, then I will ask the dealer to deal with this situation, which in my opinion, should be in my favor, but I am suspicious of what testing of capacity left will reveal/be used against me. ps, any news on the price of the new battery (I am only talking Lithium, Not Nicad.....
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If your battery is a 9 month old li-ion, it is the first generation ezee li-ion (Phylion) and is very poor indeed. The better version (still Phylion) came in around Nov 07 and is much better. In fact they say only the battery monitoring system was changed and this may or may not be true but from my experience the battery is much improved. This is the battery you would get as a warranty replacement. One problem is that testing is very difficult. For example my second battery was cutting out on every hill and was tested and found to be 8.5 Ah and therefore ok. I assumed it was the bms that was causing the cutting out once the cells started to age. It didn't matter as it was useless to me.
The latest battery uses Sanyo cells but you are very unlikely to get that as a warranty replacement as it is not like for like (and the replacement Phylion batteries seem fairly robust now). I have never had a cut out in the 7 months I have used mine and in fact shows no signs of losing capacity (my two previous batteries started to age after 2 months and were useless between 5 and 6 months old.
PS the price of the new sanyo celled battery seems to be about £350 which considering the quality of the cells is not bad.