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What Causes Runaway Cell Voltage?

What Causes Runaway Cell Voltage? 2022-09-06

Confirmed in live installation all to be true.
It is important to do individual cell bleeding at high knee while charging - current is generally low there, and a bulb bleeder will work quite quickly. But may need to be done several times to get them all to true balance.
Would be useful to mention stripped screws (obvious from not being able to torque it properly) for cells that don't have welded threads on them and how to fix it. Also maybe a note about cells that aren't fully balanced yet and have an active balancer on them a thermal camera will show it "hot" even though that isn't necessarily indicating a problem.
FilterGuy
FilterGuy
Thanks for the feedback! I just added this to the list in the document:

* Stripped threads on cell terminals that can not be properly tightened. (Do a search on the forum to find resources and discussions about what to do for stripped threads. One recently popular solution is to force thread a ¼" stainless steel stud into the 6mm hole. It will self tap into the hole)
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