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Old 10th Mar 2013, 17:29
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Ian W
 
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As to Monitor.... Secureaplane has their patent, a method of sensing and thereby controlling charging? For each cell? That did not happen... Patents protect frrom imitation, they do not guarantee performance.
I think this may be the initial development management error. Did anyone ever test this Securaplane patented technology with a failed cell? Or was the assumption made that with this patented method they wouldn't fail or the failure would be detected? From what we see now the 'patented technology' allowed the charger to carry on with a dead cell. This means that the idea doesn't work or that it was incorrectly implemented.

One wonders why it was thought necessary to rely on indirect assessment of cell health and indirect temperature sensing and serial charging rather than individual cell monitoring and parallel charging which would seen a lot safer?
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