Does it matter?

[jimdavis577]

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I took a spare balance lead for the charger and just removed a couple leads from the shell, when I get the proper shells tomorrow I’ll swap it out.

after looking at the wiring, I was thinking why don’t I get the meter out if you put your negative lead in the negative on the big connector then go to each individual balance wire with the other lead. One shows 0 volts, that is the first black wire in the shell. Then find the next wire that will read 3.xx volts, that’s the second wire in the shell. Then find one that reads 7.xx volts, it’s the third. Then one shows 11.xx volts, fourth, then the last red one shows 15.xx. In the case of this 4s battery.

So take aways from this, it absolutely does matter the order I believe because the charger is seeing 3,7,11,15 etc volts on the individual balance leads, but it’s only displaying the difference between each lead (hopefully makes sense ) and I suspect it needs to see it in order?

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No smoke or flames, sorry guys

dooms day has been averted yet again ....... some day ...... some day ....there will be flames from somewhere in the rc world !!!! lmao jk good save !

 

[9x19]

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I took a spare balance lead for the charger and just removed a couple leads from the shell, when I get the proper shells tomorrow I’ll swap it out.

after looking at the wiring, I was thinking why don’t I get the meter out if you put your negative lead in the negative on the big connector then go to each individual balance wire with the other lead. One shows 0 volts, that is the first black wire in the shell. Then find the next wire that will read 3.xx volts, that’s the second wire in the shell. Then find one that reads 7.xx volts, it’s the third. Then one shows 11.xx volts, fourth, then the last red one shows 15.xx. In the case of this 4s battery.

So take aways from this, it absolutely does matter the order I believe because the charger is seeing 3,7,11,15 etc volts on the individual balance leads, but it’s only displaying the difference between each lead (hopefully makes sense ) and I suspect it needs to see it in order?

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No smoke or flames, sorry guys

Boring!

 

[Slick2500]

Just a heads up if any of those wires shorted out the battery is likely going to die an early death. Every single battery I have ever had that has ever had the wires short to one another has had at least one of the cells ir shoot up to the moon faster than the others.

Same thing happened to this battery....

 

[Lostinthewoods86]

Just a heads up if any of those wires shorted out the battery is likely going to die an early death. Every single battery I have ever had that has ever had the wires short to one another has had at least one of the cells ir shoot up to the moon faster than the others.

Same thing happened to this battery....

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I will keep a close eye on it. Actually charging it up right now to go play, all is good so far

 

[CertifiedMike]

I will keep a close eye on it. Actually charging it up right now to go play, all is good so far

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Good luck!
I'd watch that pretty close for the first run or 3 just to be sure... Nice save so far!!!

 

[Slick2500]

I will keep a close eye on it. Actually charging it up right now to go play, all is good so far

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I had last used those batteries Labor Day weekend the ir was at like 10 then.....

I was trying to figure out why a fully charged lipo was triggering lvc.

 

[Greywolf74]

While I agree that shorting out a lipo does often lead to the damage of one or more cells, it's not always the case. I've had quite a few over the years that I've momentarily shorted for a split second, and it never hurts them to any meaningful degree. I've also had a lot of them that did too, though.