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[email protected] writes: > I left for several hours and came back to the house stinking like burning > rubber. The new batteries are apparently melting the terminal rubber > insulation. I had to throw it back into bypass mode and unplug that pack > (the only one with new batteries!) By "terminal rubber insulation" do you mean the insulation on the lugs that bolt to the terminals on the batteries? If so, this is a sign that you either didn't clean the contacts or didn't bolt them together firmly. Those batteries need to be initially charged, and they draw a lot of current when doing that... which heats up any kind of high resistance connection in the chain. > Any ideas to the cause? The status screens looked ok. ("no bad batteries" > again) By the way, you probably ought to replace all the batteries in all your packs regardless of what the battery status monitor says. ---Rob
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