Ollie Bird
Second Officer
Flight distance : 1581873 ft
United States
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Ollie Bird Posted at 2023-12-2 05:51
If I do I will, I'll bet there are a lot of batteries out there that just need the fault codes cleared to save them from recycling.
I ended up downloading the battery killer program and taking a chance overriding my windows defender and whatever else. I didn't get the program from the South African guys but elsewhere. When I tried to run the program a message came up that a dll file couldn't be found. So after much frustration and trying and deleting and retrying I did a search for the file in question on my PC and it turns out to be a common file used in other programs. I copied the file to the folder with the other bat killer files and it works. Now I tried repairing three old battery packs which all had some bad swollen cells. I ended up ruining three BMS boards before I found out there is a specific procedure for disconnecting and connecting the BMS board from the balance board. Now I have new 4 pack of 4400 ma batteries soldered to a new balance board without a good BMS board. I bought a battery pack on eBay for ten dollars thinking I could use the BMS board from it to complete my project. Turns out the battery was like new, only charged three times, cells not swollen, BMS not blocked, charges up fine, but when inserted in the drone it's already on without pressing the button. You can press the button and everything in the drone works as normal. I've refreshed the firmware in the drone which also does the battery and I've run the bat killer program on the battery, no pf codes. The on/off function would be controlled by the BMS, so I'm not going to disassemble this battery but I am looking for a couple of blocked batteries that I could use for a BMS board if anyone has one. I do want to complete this experiment with the larger capacity cells. But in the end just like Thomas Edison I learned about a lot of things not to do and the bat killer program and CP2112 board work great. You can use it to check the status of your good batteries at any time especially the cell status. |
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