not2bme
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I don't think jblance's program does any programming. I can't remember, but doesn't the default app have provisions to set a voltage? I thought there's a low voltage setting where it will stop balancing once it reaches a low voltage limit. So you can set it to 4.0V so it will never balance until it gets over that value. Oh I just noticed that you have the BMS version, which may have a different interface?
But is it necessary to limit at such a high voltage? I know I set the deviation voltage to about 0.05V (50mV) before it starts to balance (if it ever gets over 50mV, which in my case is quite rare) since it's never burning off the energy but transferring to another pack, therefore I'm not losing any energy (other than the slight losses when transferring). That's the advantage of the active balancing so it's not balancing only when it reaches the top which if you were to do so on a passive balancer it will burning off energy, therefore is best only when you reach the top when you have excess energy to burn.
But is it necessary to limit at such a high voltage? I know I set the deviation voltage to about 0.05V (50mV) before it starts to balance (if it ever gets over 50mV, which in my case is quite rare) since it's never burning off the energy but transferring to another pack, therefore I'm not losing any energy (other than the slight losses when transferring). That's the advantage of the active balancing so it's not balancing only when it reaches the top which if you were to do so on a passive balancer it will burning off energy, therefore is best only when you reach the top when you have excess energy to burn.