5th year of living dangerously with LiFePo4 batteries

On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:38:36 -0600, kinsell wrote:

Richard had an interesting post a while ago, where he accidentally used
the wrong charger on an FLP, and battery was destroyed due to swelling.
So much for the idea of a BMS protecting the battery.


Using the wrong charger, or a multi-chemistry charger on the wrong
setting, can destroy any battery, regardless of its chemistry.

A BMS probably won't help here because the charger may not trip the max-
voltage switch and the charge balancer is only there to bring any cells
that are under- or over-charged into line with the rest.


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