So my batteries are over a year old now and starting to show performance issues so I thought I’d replace them sometime soon. I always wanted to make my own battery, so I did some research and I found those 18650 cells that are used to make electric bike batteries. Did anyone here make a battery for his board from those cells? are they reliable? Also, I’m not sure how I would go about connecting them, if I connect 9 cells in series, each cell 3000mAh, then I’ll have a 9s 3000mAh pack? if I want 6000mAh do I need to make two 9s 3000mAh packs and connect them in parallel? Sorry if I’m asking dumb questions, I don’t really know much about this subject. Thanks Edit: Will these work?
If you look around a bit on the forum you will see that alot of people use the 18650 for their batteries. They are the sweet spot for size and power for eBoards. My recomendation, only buy cells from trusted vendors and the cell alot of people including me use is the Samsung 30Q (3000mAh and 15A cont. )
Your assumptions of creating a 9S 6000mAh is correct. I recomend you watch some videos on youtuve by Michag Toll (channel: ebikeschool) to get some info on how to build a battery. He also has a good book if that’s more of your taste.
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Use. Search. Will. Find. Plenty. Info. 
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Thanks, I’ll look for the samsungs
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Also if you put your location on your profile folks can help you better. Depending on where you are, it can change EVERYTHING about cell pricing.
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Oh alright, I’ll check, I’m from Israel, probably buy it online and not here because everything is expensive here.
I just remembered I had a few years old electric bike battery, I took it apart and it had 40 of the 22650 3.7v 2500mAh cells, can’t seem to find the discharge but considering it was used in a ebike battery it should be fine right? I think it’s worth a shot since I already have the cells.
Anything printed on the cells?
If they’re anything like these ones then the outlooks not good.
Max continously discharge: 3C (this would make it 7.5A a cell times 4 in parallel = 22.5A) Max instant (30s) discharge: 5C ( = 37.5A peak)
What board you looking to put them on? Hub or belt drive?
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Headway-li-ion-battery-22650-2_499002546.html
Using one belt drive motor, that means it needs high amps and its not enough? For some reason the reply isn’t working. @JonathanLau1983
Yeah, most belt drives will pull beyond these numbers. So you’ll see massive lag during acceleration.
You’d be better off starting from scratch.
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Alright, thanks for the help
Wow thanks it’s out of stock but its way cheaper than what I found, need to check shipping to see if its not too expensive
They will come back in stock soon. Set up a stock alert
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Here is a great video for you, its funny, this video was made cause i brought the idea to him. At the end of the video, he announces the winner to his book about 18650 batteries and i was the winner to his giveaway. His name is Micah Toll and he’s from Tel Aviv and you can even buy the batteries from him, he knows his stuff and the book is great by the way.
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