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Daox · 12-28-2009, 08:34 AM

I have wired up the cells in their buddy cell setup (I made my own connectors) and hooked up the balancers and let them do their thing before doing anything else. However, when I hooked up my charger, I plugged it into my killawatt to monitor energy usage. In the first few seconds of plugging it in, the charger pulls ~160W or so, but slowly tapers down to 7W over a minute or so. After leaving it plugged in for 10 minutes, it was still only pulling 7W. Sounds like a bad charger...

12-28-2009, 08:34 AM	#45 (permalink)
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