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Old 26-09-2010
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Originally Posted by sosidge View Post
If your charger has a discharge setting you can take the readings from that. Although it's hard to tell how much the cells have deteriorated because I doubt you discharged them when they were brand new!

If the cells feel softer on the track, that is as good a sign as any that they are past their best.
The reason for this thread was as much to find a way to benchmark my new cells as to test the old ones.

My charger does not have a discharge setting.

Maybe a I can borrow a protrack and use that to find the voltage drop at a given AMP discharge. Comparing this to a "good" pack I might get an idea of my cells condition.
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