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Old 02-26-2019, 08:55 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by S Keith View Post
I personally own one of these and have observed a 40% degradation in usable capacity since June, 2018. Additionally, they have horribly inconsistent internal resistance (IR) due to shoddy construction.

Under heavy throttle, my car surges. I can watch the current surge from peak to mid-level 1-2 times per second because the high IR block voltage drops like a rock, and the car adjusts.

They are Chinese junk.

Prior to this, I had a hammered reconditioned piece of junk in my car (multiple modules were barely 50% rated capacity). It actually performed a little better due to the consistent IR.

$350 more for genuine Toyota/Panasonic is an infinitely better value.
Dang, that's too bad--that looked like a good deal otherwise. Are they at least going to be decent and honor their warranty?
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