LiTime LiHeat® 12V 165Ah Dual-Mode Self Heating Lithium Battery

Right now they’ve exceeded my expectations, I’m running two in parallel, my analogy…the LifePO4 batteries are on steroids! The battery percentage meter in my motorhome stays at 100% SOC, the LiTime APP is very informative!

So far so good. Only installed recently. Installing with buss bars made for much cleaner install.

Went camping this weekend worked flawless did everything I asked of it ran refrigerator, lights and shower. Really like the Bluetooth feature for checking on the usage.

I waited a long time to upgrade my RV battery due to the cost of these things, but it was worth it! We boondock a bunch and this thing lasts so much longer than the AGM ot came with. I really like that the app shows so much information like charging, discharge rate, and time left while running different electronics on the camper. I've yet to use it in cold weather, but the self-heating will be nice for that.

This is a great battery. I have it on my Aliner Classic hardside popup with a Starlink Gen 3 as well as a 100 watt Renogy solar panel. I wasn't running out of power before with two deep cycles, but the LiTime 165Ah let me get down to one battery. The three way refrigerator vent runs with the battery on standby mode and when plugged in the entire system runs off Zamp solar anyway. So the 165Ah is probably overkill, but if you a small site boondocker, this battery is excellent and the app works great with the BMS. I charge it up on a NOCO Genius 10 amp charger and maintainer. You probably only need the 100Ah. One of the people I camp with has a GeoPro with two way fridge and LiTime 320Ah with 200 watts of solar. Works great.

I replaced my RV van's house batteries with the LiTime 165Ah Dual-Mode about a week ago. Still testing them and trying to get them to be balanced. But so far so good. Overall the experience with LiTime has been good. The prices are reasonable, there are not that many options with Group 31 high capacity batteries. The shipping was very fast and the batteries were well packaged and look to be in good condition. The batteries woke up immediately once connected to shore power. App is OK. It would be good to get more detailed information rather than just Good or OK. i.e. if the batteries are balanced, what are the readings? Range of the bluetooth is very limited, but works well inside of the van.

Recently purchased and installed 3 of these batteries wired in parallel using recommended methods and high-quality 4/0 AWG cables. I love the low-height profile of these batteries, they fit perfectly in my travel-trailer's battery box with plenty of space on top for the wiring. The 495AH total capacity is great also - a big step up from the 300AH provided by my 3 previous AGM batteries (that were the same dimensions). The reduced weight is also a nice bonus (about 106lbs reduction on the hitch!). The smart BMS system in each battery seems to work well to prevent over-charging, and it's convenient to monitor each of the battery's operating status and state-of-charge via the LiTime App.

One complaint about the LiTime App: It requires permission to access precise location, otherwise it won't connect to the batteries. Why does it need location at all? The status of the batteries has nothing to do with location. This feels like an invasion of my privacy and I urge LiTime to fix this problem in their app.

A more significant problem is how the three parallel-connected batteries operate during discharge. In general my trailer consumes about 1 to 5 Amps throughout the day and night (powering the propane fridge, Starlink, CPAP machine at night, etc.). Whenever I check the batteries it seems only one or two of the batteries show "discharging" and the other(s) show "standby". Over the course of a couple rainy days (with no solar charging) I ended up with one battery at 75% SOC, another at 79%, and the third at 99%. This seems very wrong, why don't all of the battery BMS systems connect the batteries in "discharge" mode so they maintain a roughly equal state of charge as they slowly discharge? I worry about those occasional times when I turn on my inverter and run the microwave, which draws a lot of current for a few minutes - in this case I imagine the higher SOC battery will end up going into discharge mode as well, and then it will supply more than it's share of the current to the inverter. This is not how I want the system to work! When I use the inverter, I want the high current load to be shared roughly equally between all the batteries. I hope there might be a firmware update in the future that I can apply to the battery BMS systems to fix this problem.

I used this battery along with a Litime 3k watt inverter /charger to re-power an enclosed trailer setup. So far, working great, bluetooth and the app work well enough, and getting full amps from the BMS when loaded. I was actually able to run a rooftop air on battery, just as a test. This is the 4th battery from litime I have purchased now in the last couple years, and yes I continue to recommend them for the price alone, but honestly the technology is there too.