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Old 03-02-2012, 10:05 AM   #144 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by IamIan View Post
Maybe if I try a different way to explain it.

The Super Brain has one +/- battery connection for power ... that's it ... from that it can try to do 'detection stuff'.....
In your first image, that's equivalent to the SuperBrain setup, where the charger can use a voltage cutoff to detect discharged state, or delta V for full charged state. The CellPro8 can do this, with one stick, or perhaps multiple sticks in series, up to the voltage and current limits of the charger? Same as Super Brain, which in theory can do 3, 4 sticks? in series, up to 24 cells, but it treats the whole thing like it would one stick. This is not balance charging...

Your last image shows the balance charging set up. If I were doing a single stick, and took the shrink wrap off to gain access to the 'nodes', I'd connect one lead to positive, one to negative, and 5 of the node connections to the points in between the individual cells?

Or, perhaps I could put 2, maybe more, sticks in series and treat the sticks as if they were individual cells, using the node connections at the intersections between sticks? Kind of doubting this option...

Don't know what the parallel setup would look like. Not sure of the advantages and disadvantages, and still foggy on the exact range of options/limits when it comes to doing Insight sticks specifically...
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