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Review on πŸ”‹ ZRM&E 1-Pack 4S 14.8V 18650 Li-ion Lithium Battery Charger Protection Board 16.8V Overcharge Protection 10A BMS PCB Circuit Electronic Module by Janet Rivera

Revainrating 4 out of 5

must be LOADED before anything is output.

As another reviewer wrote, I had to plug in the charger before this BMS would power the P+ and P-. After I plug everything in, the P+ and P- tabs do nothing at all. I plugged in the charger connected in parallel to the P+ and P- BMS pins and after a few minutes unplugged it and it worked. Then a few hours later the BMS turned itself off again. I charged it for a few more minutes and it's been working fine ever since. There were absolutely no instructions or schematics for this little thing. I had to do a little reading on the internet. Most online sources advise you to connect the cables to the battery first and then to the BMS. But this little BMS didn't have such a connector for the wires, so I first connected the wires to the battery cells and then soldered them to the BMS one by one. It looks like I got it right because everything works and the voltages are read correctly.

Pros
  • Never mix good batteries with bad ones, 4 battery capacity/internal resistance should be as close as possible (2 good batteries + 2 bad batteries = 4 bad batteries).
Cons
  • Not bad but...