Balancing - Time-Consuming?

[boom]

I don't have an ebike yet. I've heard that properly balancing a pack can take all night. True? Thx!

 

[Extreme1]

I don't have an ebike yet. I've heard that properly balancing a pack can take all night. True? Thx!

That’s not true. You won’t even know that the battery is balancing during the charging. Depending on how low your battery is, your charging time will vary.

 

[Marcela]

I charged a couple 72v batteries for the first time, it took longer during the last few percentages and assuming it was balancing, the time was maybe doubled but only by half hour or so.

 

[harryS]

Balancing shouldn't take much time on a quality battery with well matched cells. If you had one where you knew it was taking 6-8 hours to balance, and if it did this every time you recharged the battery, there is something fundamentally wrong,

Only the more expensive batteries have balance capability too, Most low cost packs don't balance, based on what I've seen in my ebike packs.

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