Tuesday 8 July 2008

Greensaver inter cell balance

Greensaver have been very helpful in providing technical details regarding their batteries.
They provided the following diagram of the top of the cell including the interconnecting links.



I drilled 5 holes in the top of the battery according to their diagram and measured the voltage of the 6 individual cells. The battery is measured at full charge. This battery has been (unfortunately) over discharged about 35 times and is only about 1/2 new capacity. A battery that has been cycled like this should exhibit significant imbalance between cells if the cells are not almost identical.



The results below are measured with a meter (not pictured) with 4 decimal places:

Cell : Voltage

+
1: 2.2402v
2: 2.2456v
3: 2.2452v
4: 2.2541v
5: 2.2490v
6: 2.2458v
-

Average cell voltage is 2.2466 volts. This is 100% charged including some surface change.

The standard deviation is .004616

The range is from 2.2402 to 2.2541. A difference of 0.0139v (13.9mv) or 0.6205%

I am not an expert in battery chemistry but this seems to be quite good.

Comments welcome.

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