Balance charging is really useful in the case of a sealed multi-cell pack where you can't break out the individual cells without destroying it. It's pretty useless if you can separate the cells and charge/check them like normal. If the cells are well matched there won't be anything to balance anyway. Remove cells, check voltages, if they're all close enough (within .05v or so) just throw them in a parallel holder and charge 'em all in parallel.
+10, it’s one of the reasons for not bothering any more. Just way too expensive to touch these multiple lights or MT-G2 lights and the drivers just aren’t there either.
The driver / led setup is much different than I suspected. I’ve just taken a look inside, and basically there are two outputs from the driver (I continue to believe that the driver actually contains two discrete circuits on one PCB).
The LEDs are wired in sets, each containing 3 parallel LEDs. There are 4 sets in total. Each driver output powers 2 of those sets, in series. I’m not clear on whether this should be described as 2s3p or 3p2s.
Does anyone make 1-mode drivers for this flashlight? I’m interested in getting rid of all the other modes and just keep high mode, but wouldn’t know where to even start.
you’re a wizard! how did you do it? i really love this flashlight and i want to use it to spotlight when hunting, but don’t want to be fumbling around with modes specially in such a critical moment.