Hello
Wonder if someone can help me, have a pile of 18650,
My question is this, do you need a bms to protect the battery or just use it to charge only as the esc,s limit the current?
Cant find a 12s bms with a high current figure, unless someone can reccomend one to me, was just thinking of using bms to charge, then use will that be ok?
(Goung to try and make a 12s 5p pack)
Thanks
generally iron cells are pretty fire-free. id skip the bms if they are shown to be fire-free and just check on it. wouldn’t even use it to charge. Id just get a power supply and keep the max charge to something not too high but only if theyre iron cells and shown to be hard to blow.
@Jonisonvespa Lithium IRON or lithium ION?
2 different things. You speak of 18650 but in lithium iron those dimensions are pretty rare.
Lithium iron doesn’t require a bms
Lithium ion does
Li-ion 18650 batteries
Ok found this bms, sorted, there is another one DieBieMS v0.8 on here, but cant seem to find out where to buy from i have contacted the s3ller but no responce
Would rather buy his one. If not wil. Nave to get the chinese one
li-ion and li-iron (LiFePO4) are two totally different things which need different BMSs or you can have a fire if you mix the two up. And yes, both need a BMS if they are over 1S.