They do not consider these balanced until the are all within .002 of each other. These lithium do react totally different than any other chemistry I have worked with. It is almost like having 16 picky eaters sitting there and trying to get them all to agree on a common meal. The best solution will be to set up a charger that charges each cell based upon it's own needs or go through the long process of balancing with the stock unit. We were getting close on ours a couple weeks ago and lost another dc/dc.
I am working on a charger upgrade now.
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Originally Posted by Daox
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...
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