Originally Posted by
sstriano
Posted this in another thread but thought I would get other opinions here too.
I did a stupid and had the charging harness (bullets from the battery to a deans, then deans to bullets to the charger) all plugged together and then into the battery and failed to realize what I had done, so the bullet ends to the charger briefly (like 1-2 seconds if that) touched each other... I realize that could create a short in the battery, but for that little amount of time did I do any damage?
The pack charged fine @ 5A with like .024 v cell difference.
Thanks!
As someone who almost burned their house down once already, my general rule is, if the charger is willing to balance charge it and its not puffed. Good to go. If it won't balance charge it, at least pop it open and have a look. Probably not a good idea to charge it on a wooden bench!