MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Each 3.7 volt cell needs to be monitored and reacted to?
and the new battery has circuit taps at each cell?
And the charger can sense the taps?
And react to the cell's value?
Or, am I missing something?
With respect to "drop-in" replacements: it's the built-in BMS that handles the cell-to-cell balancing. If a cell's V gets too high, it gets cutoff by the BMS.
Apparently as long as a charger can bring the whole package up to 14.4-14.6V it's good. The built-in BMS handles everything else ... or so they say. But after reading some other reports I'm not so sure. You may still need to turn off the charger when 100% SOC is reached.