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santoshgurral:
I am working on a Li-ion battery pack with used cells from an old laptop battery. I have a doubt on how to correctly group these used cells so that I can get maximum efficiency out of the pack.

I am making a 1s5p battery pack with the following capacity
Cell1- 1909mAh
Cell2- 1919mAh
Cell3- 1166mAh
Cell4- 1483mAh
Cell5-  2037mAh
So if I group these cells in parallel how does the discharge of these cells happen? I mean since cell3 has the lowest charge capacity with 1166mAh compared to other cells, will other cells also discharge only up to 1166mA instead of their full capacity. Like for example, while discharging the battery pack cell3 would discharge to its bottom faster than any other cell and reach its cut off voltage of 2.65V and the TP4056 module would disconnect the load from battery pack even though other cells in the pack have not fully discharged or reached their bottom?

I am using the TP4056 charging module to charge this pack which also has DW01A protection IC on it. Please see the attached image for my setup.

sleemanj:
Cells in parallel act as one cell.

Sum the capacities, that is the capacity of the pack.

By virtue of being parallel they are always balanced.

But think about what happens in the (unlikely but not impossible) event that one of the cells fails short-circuit.

If you put the cells in series, then you would be limited to the capacity of the lowest cell.

digsys:
... and rate your charge / discharge profiles to the lowest capacity cell .. and as suggested, put say SMT polyfuses from each cell to the bus.

santoshgurral:
@sleemanj
 I will put fuses from each cell to the bus bar. In case of short-circuit on any cell that cell will be disconnected from the bar.

Could you please brief what you mean by virtue of parallel they are always balanced.

Is it that each cell will be fully discharged to its bottom irrespective of the cell3? I will be able to utilise the full capacity of all batteries irrespective of the smallest capacity cell?

Thanks
Santosh

tunk:
You should check the self discharge. If one/several of them has
high self discharge then it will deplete the battery. Charge
the cells, wait maybe an hour and measure the voltage, then wait
e.g. a week and measure the voltages again.

And different internal resistances may lead to current cross-flow
when you switch the load off.

Several charge/discharge cycles may slightly increase the capacity.

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