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Old 01-10-2012, 08:42 PM   #46 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Formula413 View Post
Perhaps that stick has one bad cell and five good ones? The capacity is almost exactly 5/6 of the average. Of course that's irrelevant unless you have a way to disassemble sticks and re-weld them together.
That is likely. The performance of a stick will be determined by the weakest cell in the stick, just as the performance of the whole pack can be limited by a single underperforming cell. However, the fact that the weakest cell appears to have 5/6ths the capacity of the rest is coincidence.
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