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Old 01-08-2012, 11:57 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic View Post
Was there a pattern to the state of charge relative to the location in the series of sticks?
As if they were all in a straight line from positive to negative connection.
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Mech
I've borrowed an idea from Eli at Insight central, and am posting my pack analysis in a Google docs spreadsheet.

(Eli documented the analysis of a spare pack he got from a wrecked car that had been sitting in a junkyard for 1.5 years. Here's his spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...CIeXn5cD#gid=0)

Old Mechanic, FYI my sticks are numbered 1-20 and make a "straight line" series connection. #1 is the negative end, #20 positive. Here are my results, which I'm updating as I go:
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