I find it hard to see how Monkey and my way is wrong Sorry..."not correct". The only difference I see is that Monkey and my way is easier. I almost had to draw your setup Gonzo to understand it. A simple question deserves a simple answer
Sorry if it was not clear enough, my mother tong is not English so it is difficult for me.
And trust me about the pack construction. My job is to build battery packs, and for sure that is the correct way to do it.
I do not mind admitting that I know very little about BMS. The BMS systems I know of, is built up with a master / slave relationship. You buy a Master Card (Not to be confused with the credit card ) with 2, 4, 8 or 16...etc connectors to connect the slave cards to. A slave card per cell and the slave card I have seen, are not cheap! There are probably other types of BMS systems. Again, not an expert on BMS. But the long and short of it is: then I was just curious why Monkey wanted Gary to spend more money without a good reason. Which I was sure that there was!
Up to 24S packs (may be more) you can find
BMS that are all in one board so you have to route a cable from each battery connection to the
BMS.
Usually for high cell count packs there is the salve/master
BMS system you only have to route 1 data cable from the slaves to the master, it is easier.
If the pack is for a bike there is nanny
BMS already designed for that, I recommend you that.
As commented usually packs are mounted on a pair number of elements so you will find more
BMS options if you build a 16S pack than if you build a 15S.
