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Danny, you say to charge at 6 amps, in the UK we are getting advised by the BRCA to only charge at a max of 1C (4.6amps for 4600mah) or the cells will blow up, destroy the building we are in and render us blind for life and maybe longer.
What is the theory behind this and is it not just an overreaction to a few cells from a particular cell manufacturer having some problems, that may now have been solved anyway?
Charging at 4.6 or 6 amps will not make any difference as far as cell exploding. Cells exploding have to do with the cell design. As the manufacturers try and make more capacity out of a limited cell size everything gets thinner insed and more material is stuffed in the cells. That is why I have said that the new EFRA/BRCA rules make no sense.
The way to fix some of the problems would be to go down in weight which means they couldn't pack the cells as much.