Mike, I used threaded plated mild steel stud cut to length.
Just reporting on my first balancing charge which has been going on for 36hrs at 150ma. 49 cells are full at 3.60v and the load lights are cycling on and off nicely, all within 40mv of each other.
I cell is stuck at 3.36v for some reason. So it may be just very out of balance and will catch up eventually if I give it long enough. Checked it with meter and Slave is reporting correct voltage to Master. Or perhaps Slave has a fault and load is operating unseen bleeding off the power, meter and infra red thermometer do not suport this though at the moment
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I'll give it another 24hrs (3Ah charge) and see if it pulling it's socks up. I'll bung it on an individual charge later if still no joy. might just be a low spec cell we shall see.
Bizzarely when I turn on my 8x 80w fluorescent lights in the garage during charging it trips out the Master and cuts charging, obviously picking up the emi through the charger somehow and giving a bad cell V reading. To that end and to reduce errors I have re-introduced 10x oversampling back into the Digital Slaves.
I'll report on that later, hopefully one spurious reading won't then trigger an error.
I've also added an interrupt driven low power sleep mode for the digital slaves so consumption drops from 1ma (operating) to <200ua (sleeping). They wake up whenever the Master is turned on, and go back to sleep when no data requests for > 1 minute.
I haven't loaded the slaves with this new software yet but will do Monday. Hopefully that errant cell will be upto spec by then.