User:Louis/Dragonfly Energy trade libel suit Will Prowse: Difference between revisions
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==Battle Born's charge-current specification for the 75Ah battery== | ==Battle Born's charge-current specification for the 75Ah battery== | ||
[[File:Battle-Born-BB1275-charge-current-datasheet-comparison.png|thumb|center|820px|Two Battle Born datasheets for the same BB1275 (75Ah) battery, page 3, Charging Specifications. Left: the datasheet on battlebornbatteries.com as of June 7, 2026, listing '' | [[File:Battle-Born-BB1275-charge-current-datasheet-comparison.png|thumb|center|820px|Two Battle Born datasheets for the same BB1275 (75Ah) battery, page 3, Charging Specifications. Left: the datasheet on battlebornbatteries.com as of June 7, 2026, listing ''Max Charge Current 37.5A''.<ref name="bb1275-ds-current" /> Right: the "BB1275 Standard Datasheet_V2", listing ''Max Charge Current 50A'', the 50A file Battle Born's own domain still serves and that the Wayback Machine captured on battlebornbatteries.com on October 16, 2025.<ref name="bb1275-ds-v2" /> Every other charging-specification row is identical.]] | ||
One of the complaint's specific factual charges is that Prowse's instrumented test of the 75Ah battery overcharged it. The complaint pleads: | One of the complaint's specific factual charges is that Prowse's instrumented test of the 75Ah battery overcharged it. The complaint pleads: | ||
<blockquote>'' | <blockquote>''Prowse's 'testing' is intentionally abusive and invalid. The abuses demonstrated in this video and accompanying released data include that (1) the charge current was simultaneously ~49A, 30% over the 37.5A maximum specified in the manual ...''</blockquote><ref name="complaint" /> | ||
That charge depends on 37.5A being the maximum charge current Battle Born published for the battery. For the 75Ah BB1275, Battle Born has published two | That charge depends on 37.5A being the maximum charge current Battle Born published for the battery. For the 75Ah BB1275, Battle Born has published two figures in what is, by its own internal title, the same document. Both PDFs carry the identical internal title "BB1275 Standard Datasheet_V2" and are identical page for page except for one row: ''Max Charge Current'' reads 50A in the earlier file and 37.5A in the current one. | ||
The | The datasheet now on Battle Born's website, and the owner's manual, state 37.5A, alongside a recommended charge current of ''.5c'', which for a 75Ah cell is 37.5A.<ref name="bb1275-ds-current">Battle Born Batteries, BB1275 Data Sheet, page 3, Charging Specifications row ''Max Charge Current 37.5A''. {{Cite web |title=BB1275 Data Sheet |url=https://battlebornbatteries.com/cdn/shop/files/BB1275_Data_Sheet.pdf |access-date=2026-06-07 |publisher=Battle Born Batteries (Dragonfly Energy)}} [[Media:Battle-Born-BB1275-datasheet-manufacturer-37A.pdf|Uploaded copy]]. Internal PDF metadata: title "BB1275 Standard Datasheet_V2", producer airSlate inc. Mellivora 3.10, creation and modification date June 1, 2026.</ref> Its internal PDF metadata gives a creation and modification date of June 1, 2026 and a producer of airSlate inc. Mellivora 3.10. | ||
Battle Born | The 50A figure is the older file. Its metadata gives a creation date of December 30, 2024 and a producer of Adobe PDF library 17.00. It remains retrievable today from a battlebornbatteries.com address, which returns HTTP 301 to Battle Born's Shopify content-delivery copy of the same 50A file.<ref name="bb1275-ds-50A-live">Battle Born Batteries, BB1275 Standard Datasheet_V2, page 3, Charging Specifications row ''Max Charge Current 50A''. Still served from Battle Born's own domain: {{Cite web |title=BB1275-Standard-Datasheet_V2-compressed.pdf |url=https://battlebornbatteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BB1275-Standard-Datasheet_V2-compressed.pdf |access-date=2026-06-09 |publisher=Battle Born Batteries (Dragonfly Energy)}} The URL returns HTTP 301 to Battle Born's Shopify content-delivery copy at cdn.shopify.com and serves the 50A file (internal title "BB1275 Standard Datasheet_V2", producer Adobe PDF library 17.00, dated December 30, 2024).</ref> Defender, a retailer that sells the battery, serves the same document, and the Wayback Machine captured it on battlebornbatteries.com on October 16, 2025.<ref name="bb1275-ds-v2">Battle Born Batteries, BB1275 Standard Datasheet_V2, page 3, Charging Specifications row ''Max Charge Current 50A''. Served by Defender: {{Cite web |title=BB1275 Standard Datasheet (v2) |url=https://defender.ca/assets/pdf/battle-born/bb1275-standard-datasheet_v2-compressed.pdf |access-date=2026-06-09 |publisher=Defender (Battle Born retailer)}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20251016152325/https://battlebornbatteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BB1275-Standard-Datasheet_V2-compressed.pdf Wayback Machine capture] of the same file on battlebornbatteries.com, October 16, 2025. [[Media:Battle-Born-BB1275-datasheet-v2-50A.pdf|Uploaded copy]]. The file's internal PDF metadata gives a creation date of December 30, 2024.</ref> | ||
The two figures bracket the test. Hackaday's coverage of the 75Ah test records that the battery was '' | The only substantive difference between the two files is the maximum-charge figure. The recommended-charge row reads ''.5c'' in both, and 0.5C of a 75Ah cell is 37.5A, so the June 1, 2026 re-export lowered the stated maximum to equal the recommended figure the datasheet had carried all along. | ||
That June 1, 2026 metadata date sits against the suit's own dates. The complaint, No. CV26-01604 in the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, Washoe County, was filed June 1, 2026.<ref name="complaint" /> Dragonfly disclosed the suit in a Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 2, 2026, reporting an earliest-event date of June 1, 2026.<ref name="dfli-8k">{{Cite web |title=Form 8-K, Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp. |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1847986/000149315226026754/form8-k.htm |date=2026-06-02 |access-date=2026-06-09 |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission}} Date of earliest event reported: June 1, 2026; filed June 2, 2026. Item 8.01 states the trade libel lawsuit was filed June 1, 2026 in the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada.</ref> The 37.5A file was therefore re-exported the same calendar day the complaint was filed, and the day before the company disclosed the suit to the SEC. | |||
The 75Ah product page itself was not removed from the Wayback Machine; its URL changed. Battle Born moved its store from WooCommerce to Shopify, and the old product address now returns HTTP 301 to a new Shopify URL string.<ref name="bb-url-301">The old WooCommerce product URL {{Cite web |title=75 Ah 12V Group 24 Battery (legacy URL) |url=https://battlebornbatteries.com/product/75-ah-12v-group-24-battery/ |access-date=2026-06-09 |publisher=Battle Born Batteries}} returns HTTP 301 to the Shopify product URL https://battlebornbatteries.com/products/75ah-12v-group-24-lifepo4-deep-cycle-battery/ , reflecting Battle Born's move from WooCommerce (/product/, /wp-content/uploads/) to Shopify (/products/, /cdn/shop/files/).</ref> The new Shopify URL has no Wayback history before June 2026, while the old WooCommerce URL keeps captures from December 16, 2025 through June 7, 2026, the last of which recorded the redirect going live.<ref name="bb-url-wayback">Internet Archive Wayback Machine CDX index. The old WooCommerce URL has four captures, December 16, 2025 through June 7, 2026; the June 7, 2026 capture returns HTTP 301. The new Shopify URL has captures only from June 2026. {{Cite web |title=Wayback Machine CDX index, battlebornbatteries.com/product/75-ah-12v-group-24-battery/ |url=http://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=battlebornbatteries.com/product/75-ah-12v-group-24-battery/&output=json&fl=timestamp,statuscode |access-date=2026-06-09 |publisher=Internet Archive}}</ref> That asymmetry, not a deletion, is what made the page look as though it had been taken down. | |||
The two figures bracket the test. Hackaday's coverage of the 75Ah test records that the battery was ''charged and discharged at a mere 49A, well below its rated 100A.''<ref name="hackaday-death" /> A charge of about 49A is below the 50A maximum stated in the older datasheet and above the 37.5A maximum stated in the manual and the current datasheet. The complaint quotes Prowse's own account of the same point, that he ran the test ''under the continuous charge current'' and that the battery ''was used within spec on the datasheet.''<ref name="complaint" /> | |||
== History of Battle Born publishing inconsistent data == | == History of Battle Born publishing inconsistent data == | ||