Bioenno Power12V, 30Ah LFP Battery (PVC, BLF-1230A)

I bought this battery at the end of May, 2021 for ham radio. About 2 months ago my Icom 7100 and Raspberry pi would reset when I tried to transmit. I thought it was a connection or my power distribution box, but after some testing it turns out it is the battery. Bummer...it was good while it lasted.

I would give it 10 stars if I could! This is an amazing product. I have used it to run a 100W Icom 7000 - that will shut down if the voltage drops below 13.5 volts - for more than 8 hours during pile ups during special events. The 7000 worked like a champ and the battery was still going strong. I have used it to power a Kenwood FM mobile functioning as a cross band repeater for more than 8 hours a day during a large scale disaster drill. It recharged over night and did the same thing for 3 more days. It will do the same thing this year. It is no effort to get the radio connections setup to match, Powerpoles are a staple on my ham radio equipment for 20 years and an ARES standard. If I wasn't able to make my own adapters there are tons of places to buy one ready made!I also own 12ah and a 6ah Bioenno batteries - the 12ah is great for shorter duration events and the 6ah is used to make sure my HT as 12v input for full power out when needed.

I've used one of these setting up a ham station for a group of school students who were given a grant so they bought the most expensive equipment they could.I suppose the battery works as it should, but it's just a battery you can buy one with three times a capacity for less money, not sure what's going on in amateur radio nowadays but after reading a few reviews by ham radio operators it appears that the license isn't worth the paper it's printed on.For the gentleman who's icon 7000 shuts down if the voltage is below 13.5 volts try cleaning your cheap fuses, the contacts have corroded and you're getting excessive voltage drop across the cheap fuses. next time buy quality fuses and you won't have to worry about the contacts corroding.And I don't know what to say about a ham radio operator who can't figure out how to connect his radio to a battery, a ham radio license means that you should be able to build the radio from the ground up, having difficulty connecting it to a battery seems like they may have dumbed down the tests a bit too far.The bottom line is this is a decent battery, it's massively overpriced, their claim to fame is that the BCM in this what they call a PCM Is RF quiet, I looked at it on the spectrum analyzer and it does generate a bit of noise so RF quiet is a subjective term. If you are operating in an area with an S5 noise floor then you will probably never notice the noise from the batteries internal circuitry, but if you live in an area like I do where the noise floor is sits at S1 or S0 you'll notice a bit of hash coming from the battery.With that said The RFI from the battery is within acceptable limits.I personally wouldn't buy another one of these, for the same amount of money I can get a hundred amp hour lithium iron phosphate battery That will work just fine.

I want to give this 5 stars but I have no idea how to connect this powerpole connection to my Yaesu FT-991 4-pin input. I ordered an adapter from powerwerks as suggested in the Answers section but the powerpole plugs were way too small. This is turning into much more work than I was expecting. It would help to include links to all the available adapters that actually fit this thing. Until then I can't give it better than a 3...

I used this on my kayak for a 9 inch fish finder. I could use my fish finder for 4 days without charging. Works great!

Excellent battery. Well worth the price