What happens when you discharge completely?
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nearly complete discharge of the old pack
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After some on line discussions about the effects of reverse charging the cells, and my experiment where I purposely reverse charged a cell to see what happened, and found little change in the cells capacity. I decided to take the sticks that I just pulled from my silver insight pack, and do an experiment.
This photo is the progression from when the discharger detected the first cell drop out in stick 3, until I stopped the discharge when the pack had discharged to 30 volts. We can see that the rest of the sticks gradually dropped out in a random way, with several of the sticks being completely discharged and reversed charged.
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