20-03-2014, 06:16 PM
Wow, it's almost like they ran out of 8S balance plugs that day 
The charger must be set to 8S. There's no other option with an 8S1P pack.
The balance leads are presumably meant to plug side-by-side to give the charger individual visibility of all eight cells (the safer way to do it), or in a pseudo-parallel configuration where each of the balance plugs is inserted into a separate 4S socket on a paraboard. That would cause each cell to be ganged up in parallel with one other, but the balancer circuitry would only see four cells. I expect many chargers might baulk at being asked to charge 8S voltages into only 4 visible cells.
Personally, I'd be buying some 8S JST-XH balance plugs and converting.
It looks like a nice battery, and the 5C charge rate would come in handy for zapping it with a <10min recharge at the field
The charger must be set to 8S. There's no other option with an 8S1P pack.
The balance leads are presumably meant to plug side-by-side to give the charger individual visibility of all eight cells (the safer way to do it), or in a pseudo-parallel configuration where each of the balance plugs is inserted into a separate 4S socket on a paraboard. That would cause each cell to be ganged up in parallel with one other, but the balancer circuitry would only see four cells. I expect many chargers might baulk at being asked to charge 8S voltages into only 4 visible cells.
Personally, I'd be buying some 8S JST-XH balance plugs and converting.
It looks like a nice battery, and the 5C charge rate would come in handy for zapping it with a <10min recharge at the field