July 16th, 2008 LiPo Balancer Element
The LiPo balancer cell acts like a big and very accurate zener diode; when the cell voltage is under a threshold fixed by the user the system is in “idle state” and watch only for the voltage with a equivalent resistance of some KOhm and a negligible current shunt. When the voltage reaches the threshold the balancer element will start to shunt current from the cell with an internal power resistor: the amount of current sunk by the element is proportional to the cell overvoltage with respect the user “safe” threshold.
LiPo Balancer Element: [Link]
