Battery Charge #16

8/3/11:  Drove 13 miles.  State of Charge after was 150.0 V (60%). Ambient temperature at charge is 80C. Five BMS regulators installed and five are communicating.    Set High voltage limit for all 5 regulators to 14.5Volts. Started Charge:
Turned current to 25 Amps (automatically migrated to 23.0 Amps because of ambient temperature) for 65 minutes minutes to 170V.  At this time, Regulators #2 and #3 Reach 14.50V.  High voltage reached and regulators started regulating.
Turned down current to 15 Amps for 15 minutes to 170V.
Turned down current to 10 Amps for 20 minutes to 170V.
Recorded Peak voltages from Pearl Scanner BMS Software:
02V 14.50 GREEN BLINKING  02MA 14.55 02V 6.83
03V 14.48                                    03MA 14.82 03V 6.73
04V 14.24                                     04MA 14.62  04V 6.76
05V 14.13                                     05MA 14.50  05V 00.00 (DISCONNECTED?
06V 14.12                                     06MA 14.53  06V 6.81
Turned down current to 5 Amps for 5 minutes to 170V.
Charge time was 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Final Voltage Warm 165V.
Final Voltage Cold > 8 hours later 156.0V.

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