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Thank you to all that contributed to this thread, the STW40N65M2 arrived and works a treat, I am now putting back the two cells I removed so it will be back to 42v/36v

There are lessons to be learnt from this project and still a few questions. I was concerned about the smoking of the drill after replacing 30 NiCd cells with 20 x 18650 (10s2p). So I removed two of the cells, the total of which were supplying 42v which still left it with 37v. What I should...

So I got the new 35A BMS, I plugged in the balancing cables, I have not soldered the thicker negative cables yet but I thought I would check the voltages to see if they resolve the problems above. So I put one probe on the Battery Main Postive terminal, I then tried each of the Negative solder...

I planned to make a 10s battery with just 10 cells, I bought a 16a BMS Later I got hold of 20 decent cells so I decided to make it a 10s2p battery I got a new 35A BMS although the cells are 20A So the new unit arrived and it has thicker cables. As the cables for my old BMS are already...

Yes all wires go to right cells I unplugged it as I am replacing it. It is the type with different port.

This is new one I bought

Sorry for delay in reply, I must have missed the email notification I have since found that this BMS unit was 16amp, I originally planned a single 10s setup but ended up witing two together, which are 20A, so I have now ordered a 35v

So should I ditch it or try to attach it to one of the 18650 cells?

Thanks I have ordered a STW40N65M2

How can a 36v drill have a max of 20v what is threshold voltage, the amount it needs to turn on? Any recommendations of something powerful enough?

The voltage is 36v 20amps

I was extremely careful to check all the balance leads. The battery was recycled so it has solder in place for all the balance leads. I was really hoping for a response from someone who has a battery BMS and can measure it or who has actual relevant experience of the issue I have raised.

I have this drill that I am converting to 18650 When I pull the trigger it starts smoking, so I opened it up and it seems to be some sort of heat sensor. You can see from the pic that the heat sensor chip is wired into the trigger, and sits on a heat sink. Does anyone know of a more powerful...

I installed a 36v BMS, all seemed fine, when I tested the voltage I noticed B- Battery is at 36.6v P- Load is at 18v (approx) C- Charger is at 18v (approx) The device drawing the load would not work at 18v Has anyone come across this ?

I have converted an Ni-Cd 36v drill battery to an 18650 battery. The connector to the drill has the obvious positive and negative terminals, but it also has an earth terminal. This has a black wire going into a silver thing (red arrow below), then another black wire comes out and was soldered...