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Old 01-23-2012 | 02:43 PM
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Chocula
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Originally Posted by REVOJohn
yah i guess if you have a "dumb" charger yes you have to take care of yuor connectors. have a look at PowerLab 8 and you'll see why this application based chargers is fully autonomous
John, one of the chargers I have is a CellPro 10s. I was under the impression that it was disadvantageous to charge batteries of different capacities or different states of charge because it would just dump the excess going to the battery which was at a higher state of charge and limit the rate of charge to that of the smaller capacity battery. It allows different cell counts as it is charging them in series and actively balances them to avoid overwhelming a smaller capacity battery.

Does the PowerLab 8 work differently than the CellPro 10s or am I misunderstanding how the Cellpro 10s works?


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