Where to get a New Gen 4 Panasonic Module snapped battery post Gen 2 Batt rebuild

Hi Gentoo
Great find of MKE!!!

 

So buying used modules from any source is a poor gamble. Best gamble is from a low miles, low age wreck, as you did. Good luck
with the new module - definitely the way to go.

My personal belief - for which I'll get a lot of flak - is that torque specs are not that big a deal. For any electrical connection what is important is a snug connection with good conductivity.
Don't be hard on yourself though. The broken terminal post could have been damaged in the wreck.

 

This is not balancing, it equalizing and is largely a waste of time. There is not enough of a voltage potential difference between any of the modules to move any significant number of electrons between modules.

To balance cells (within a module) you need a charger and a discharger and then do a process of charging at a low rate of current (350 mA) until the voltage no longer rises After you reach this point, continue charging for 4 to 6 more hours. Research it in one or two of the good threads in the Gen 2 forums to get details on how to balance your battery. You then let the battery discharge the surface charge. If after that the difference between blocks/modules is no more than 0.1 V to 0.2 V then you can consider the battery balanced. Ideally, you want no difference between any block/module.

 

The un-expert general observations seem to show that it'll work as long as the maximum block voltage difference doesn't go above 0.3V for more than a few seconds.

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