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life my way
Well, that's helpful. I'm all about time consuming. It actually probably wouldn't take much more time and attention than all my top balances.I have not done it myself but have read up on it when I discovered I had two flaky 174AH cells. (part of the ShunBin mess).
The procedure is not hard but time consuming. First to get the cells down to 2.50V then to slowly bring them up at low Amps and giving them "rest periods" to settle in between, as I recall the instructions said taking a break & rest at every 0.25V which seemed a bit much TBH but I can see some reasoning there due to the chemical reactions going on. There are different posts all over the internet and a lot of speculation as to what is best etc.... I'm sure there are ways to do so but it would really depend on the internal state of the cell in question and just what happened to it. Thing is, is One "recovered" cell worth putting into a good pack of cells ? That's only an answer the risk taker can make, entirely up to the individual.
I got two packs to top balance at 3.65 on the little 5a charger and am working on the third. First pack took 4 or 5 days but it had been used with the LV2424 without a balance for a bit. Same with the second pack, but to took 2 or 3 days. Now the third had been sitting on that charger for 3 weeks, with me checking it every morning and throughout each day. It's pretty ridiculous what we do for these things really.
I'm going to try what you said after I get my replacement cells in and all four packs top balanced. Thank you, again.