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--- electrical:12v:drop-in_lifepo4 [2025/08/28 15:17]
frater_secessus [choosing a drop-in LFP battery] fleshed out
+++ electrical:12v:drop-in_lifepo4 [2025/11/22 00:16] (current)
frater_secessus [BMS features and specs]
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-Capacitive balancing wastes less power since most of the excess is transferred to the low cell[s].  There are efficiency losses involved (~50%((https://www.ti.com/download/trng/docs/seminar/Topic%202%20-%20Battery%20Cell%20Balancing%20-%20What%20to%20Balance%20and%20How.pdf))) but it's far less than the 100% loss of passive balancing.  The main drawbak of capacitive balancers is the current spec (like 5A) only occur at huge deltas;  the rest of the time the balancing current is much lower.
+**Capacitive balancing** wastes less power since most of the excess is transferred to the low cell[s].  There are efficiency losses involved (~50%((https://www.ti.com/download/trng/docs/seminar/Topic%202%20-%20Battery%20Cell%20Balancing%20-%20What%20to%20Balance%20and%20How.pdf))) but it's far less than the 100% loss of passive balancing.  The main drawbak of capacitive balancers is the current spec (like 5A) only occur at huge deltas;  the rest of the time the balancing current is much lower.
-In theory inductive active balancers would get around this delta/current relationship.  [as of this writing in 2024 I know of no drop-ins that use inductive active balancers - secessus]
+Heads up:  because active balancers are just shuffling voltage between cells they can overdischarge the cells if left alone without adult supervision.  To avoid this:
+  * use [[electrical:12v:lvd|an LVD]] to cut the circuit to the balancer's single NEG lead when pack voltage is <13.0v or some other value of your choosing. Or,
+  * choose an active balancer that has a built-in LVD.((The cutoff tends to be something like 3.0Vpc, so 12.0v for a 4S 12v pack.))  Or,
+  * only run the active balancer manually when required
+In theory **inductive active balancers** would get around this delta/current relationship.  [as of this writing in 2024 I know of no drop-ins that use inductive active balancers - secessus]

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