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  1. Hi Rick,

    We checked some more boards, and it turns out that some of them just... do... that. The analog front end is speced for 3 to 6 cells (but also down to 4 volts total), so spurious readings on cell 3 while running it with two aren't shocking.

    Anyway, we increased what it calls acceptable for the third cell up to 1.5 volts, and posted it in the 8-7 firmware in the Early Firmware thread. That should make yours work without further problems. 


  2. Oh I get ya. Showing the startup screen completely makes sense as a reason to power it off. 

    But that would be much easier to add as an option in Escribe to just show the startup screen if activated after a certain amount of time, powered off or not. 

    We can make it show whatever screen whenever with minimal difficulty. 

  3. It saves the settings (temperature, power, all that stuff) from memory to flash as part of its power down sequence about an hour after you last use the device. If you disconnect before this has happened, you will lose your changes.

    Not sure that's the ideal way to do it with swappable batteries, but that is how we do it at present. 

  4. Oh no, I didn't do it board side. I did it on the tap connector on the pack side. Mine switches between 2s and 3s just fine and shows .02V on cell 3, but that could just be mine for all I know. I'll try a couple more boards today and see if I can get the same one cell high behavior. 

    The reason it looks at cell 3 at all is we don't want to get people into a bad situation if they should just happen to plug a 3s battery with a damaged third cell into the board with it set for 2s. But where the cutoff should be is going to be a function of where all the boards read the phantom cell. 

    We'll get you working one way or another.

  5. That's wired properly. The question is why you're seeing .6 volts on cell 3. 

    It won't fire as a 2 cell unless it is reading less than .1 volts. SO that's the problem. 

    I'll post a picture of my extremely hacked together 2s tapped battery box (made from a hana battery box, a vaporshark battery box and a lot of hot glue) in a bit. 

    I did jump the connection right at the tap connector, rather than running two wires all the way back to the battery, but that shouldn't make that much of a difference. Obviously it is getting the two cell voltages that are actually there correct.

    Its either some sort of subtle wiring difference or we just need to widen out what it will call "no cell" in the firmware. 


  6. The battery ties to the fuse, you shouldn't blow it by soldering the wire to it. 

    What kind of setup were you running? high ohms? low ohms? High watts? low watts?

    Anything different when it blew compared to how you had been running? Setup? Mechanical? Dropped?

    The wiring looks perfect to me, and it is't likely that you can short to case because your case looks 3d printed. 


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