Replacing the Ryobi Electric Riding Lawn Mower's Stupid Batteries with Lithium Ion

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Ryobi's $4,000 Riding Lawn Mower comes with stupid lead acid batteries that are destined to fail. If you already bought this mower, the best thing you can do is replace them! With Lithium Batteries!
Links below, but some details you should know first.

Updates: Officially, LiTime reached out and asked me to state that they officially do not support using their batteries for lawn mowers and may not honor their warranty if you do. However, I have also seen them advertising their batteries for this exact purpose. Use them at your own risk, I've linked other brands below as well. Also, if you have Ryobi's RM300e or RM480EX, scroll pass my initial battery recommendations to sections about those mowers.

I've also linked a popular "Single battery" Chins and "Single Battery" LiTime option. These batteries requires additional work to install as it doesn't fit perfectly, but as it's a single battery the wiring is easier and you don't have to worry about balancing.

You probably will not need to do the key fix that I had to do, these randomly fail and that's what happened to me. Only do this if necessary.

For clarity, I have model RY48111 but the following batteries should also work for models RY48110, RY48112, and RY48113. I'll discuss some other models further below.

Battery options (I used the LiTimes, but these others should work too)
LiTime (on amazon buy the four pack): https://amzn.to/45jPE6c (affiliate)
LiTime: (direct from website, buy the four pack): https://shrsl.com/4vu36 (affiliate)
Chins (buy four): https://amzn.to/3yvytRr (affiliate)
Mehrpower (buy four): https://amzn.to/4fz1a0x (affiliate)

Single Chin Battery: https://amzn.to/3SIy3Om (affiliate) (requires additional work to install my guide does not cover, but avoids balancing and BMS issues)
Single LiTime Battery: https://amzn.to/3PHijJu (affiliate) (requires additional work to install my guide does not cover, but avoids balancing and BMS issues)

If you're not ready for Lithium and just want another sealed lead acid battery set:
Mighty Max (buy four): https://amzn.to/4crDd8u (affiliate)

**Note, If you have a Ryobi RM480e, it's a very different process and space requirements. The general recommendation appears to be this single battery:
DC House: https://amzn.to/42ALJ3l (affiliate).
I suggest following this video:    • Simple Ryobi RM480e Battery Replacement in...  

**Second Note: If you have Ryobi RM300e 30-inch 48V mower, this battery is recommended but will require some work to make fit: https://amzn.to/4hc2YvW (affiliate)

Battery charger: https://amzn.to/4kbGEoB (affiliate)
Make sure to set the battery charger to 48v and 10a/8a.
Also: Rather than switching the charger head housing as I did, you can instead break the two plastic tabs inside the Ryobi's charging port, and then the new charger will slide right in with no rewiring required.

Battery balancers (if you have four batteries, I don't discuss this in the video):
Litime brand: https://amzn.to/3SCGfiD (affiliate)
Ecoworth brand: https://amzn.to/3Ze4nMw (affiliate)

Battery monitor if you want one: https://amzn.to/41L5h36 (Affiliate)

A good cart to hold the heavy batteries so mower doesn't tip: (affiliate) https://amzn.to/49cqQNa

A decent Lithium Riding lawnmower (if you don't want to mess around with all this): https://amzn.to/45tU7Ss (Affiliate)

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