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<DIV>What everybody is assuming is that this was a screw up.It could also just have been a bad cell </DIV>
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<DIV>The manual does say not to put a fully charged pack on the charger and discharge first if any doubt. </DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com> <BR>I can't say how the charger works, but my uneducated guess would be that the voltage rise (internal impedance) with the application of current would be different between charged/uncharged cells.<BR><BR><B><I>Grow Pattern <pattern4u@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">What still bothers me is:- If 3 fully charged cells = 12 V plus, and 4 <BR>discharged cells = 12 V Plus, then how does the charger know which is which?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>