No truer words has been said.
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Stop. I got nothing more to add in terms of suggestions on what to do with your battery, as everyone already did a great job, but Iām getting low-key triggered reading this whole conversation. You canāt come seek for advise and then also act like the professional. Either you get advice, listen and mostly shut the fuck up (discussion on why itās actually better, so you can actually learn from it instead of just taking someones word for it is really good though 
) or you do your own thing. That goes for anywhere, not just on here.
It takes so much time and patience to give THAT GOOD advice like @BenjaminF just did. To show him some respect, I really think you should remake that part of the pack. Itās litterally only 2 pieces (technically 3ā¦) of nickel strip and some more work, but the finished result will increase drastically.
Face it, youāve messed up. It sucks having to redo a WHOLE pack, but this is just a minor part of it, and would you rather use something youāre not totally happy about?
I get it, many people would actually use it because they donāt fucking care, which pisses me totally off in terms of batteries, but this is litterally your home and family on the line.
I know there are a lot of worse packs out there being made, but that doesnāt matter. Just like you canāt ever compare yourself to someone else, but only yourself yesterday.
Now if you ever want to sell batteries, you really got no way around redoing it. Shit like that can and will ruin reputation by showing you honestly donāt care.
Just my 5 cents of rant. Should probably also mention that itās just my opinion and not actually facts.
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^^^^ this.
@Halbj613
If youāre gonna ask for advice from the gurus, then itās usually best practice to actually listen to and follow the advice you get from the gurus, no?
If you wanna figure it out for yourself, go nuts. It aināt my board or my house, so it aināt my business.
But if you actively seek advice, and receive said advice, and then just go ānah, my way is betterā and ignore it?
You could have saved time and effort for both you and the people youāre asking advice from, by just skipping the steps in the middle.
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Ergh
As correct as everything you said isā¦
Shua has been around and has the title that he has for a reasonā¦ Iām honestly pretty floored he came so far as to make a battery as decent as that compared to how he, uh, used to be.
What Iām getting at tho, is that @BenjaminF knows who heās engaging in conversation with. If he really didnāt want to, he just wouldnāt in the first place & presumably wonāt in the future if heās bothered by the response.
Hmm. Why am I trying to be a voice of reason regarding who to not be triggered by. Must be much past my bedtime lol.
If heās attempting to be a forum battery building vendor then yeah thatās definitely a bad look & he should get his shit together. I only recall reading that he was just making things for personal friends or something tho, or maybe I dreamed that idk
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Haha, that is actually so damn spot on. I think I remember one of his first builds and letās just sayā¦ it was badā¦
Absolutely.
In the end, I donāt care about what Shua does as long as he knows the risk. That goes for everyone really. What seriously triggeres me is when it can potentially be catastrophic for people who are not even in charge of it. His parents as an example.
Just like riding. I donāt care how crazy you ride, but the moment you start to put cars, pedestrians, animals or whatever in danger, I care and lose all respect for you no matter who you are.
That said, it also seems like there is hope for Shua. I mean, just see how far he has moved from when he first joined the forum. Like you said, he has built a decent battery. I really just hoped a big knock in the head would help him wake up and improve like he has done before.
I also remember that, I thinkā¦ He still has huge responsibility though. Iād probably even go as far to say much bigger. If I knew nothing about batteries, I think Iād be more likely to believe what my friend said, rather than some random forum.
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im sorry to you and to anyone else who misunderstood me.
once @BenjaminF said that i immediately took off the nickel there and changed to a single piece (managed to do it without ruining anything)
i was merely questioning before how bad it would have been to leave the battery as is (what are the risks) once he told me i should i changed it straight away. i have heeded all advice given to me on this forum and i actually care about creating something safe for other people.
im sorry if it sounded different online (text isnt the same as talking to someone. but all points made above by all the gurus here were listened to and changed straight away.
thanks and im sorry if you misunderstood me
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Donāt worry about being misunderstood. Mr ego and I had that for a bit. The thing is that as long as youāre learning and fixing your errors (add photos to show you are trying to do it rightly as they gave), then I donāt see it as āIāll do it my wayā. Iāll never understand why people would jump to that conclusion on a daily. Itās probably something even I myself will never get.
Continue to learn from the best here.
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always do and will
i dont think i took any pictures once i changed it (as i went to finish off the balance wiring. but will see if i can get a pic out.
Looking forward to it. Also Iāve noticed people jumped the gun:
āah yeah sorry i misread above. i thought you meant to remove the solder joints.ā
āthanks man and i get you and will see about trying to remove. thank you again and whether i do or dont change this pack i will remeber it for next timeā
You clearly realized what he meant.
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What? I can tell you donāt live in NYC. Because all of this stuff happens on a daily here, and Iāll tell you this, it aināt the ones who are riding their esk8 who are putting others in danger. Itās others who are putting us as liability for literally getting in the way. Crossing the red signal when we have the green, dogs chasing our skateboards, pedestrians canāt look both ways before crossing from a parked cars (I had to hit the emergency swerve for this one), and cars driving over eachother just to get through the day.
I would reword this.
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Really happy to hear that youāre fixing it
To me, it sounded like you had already decided āI donāt really wanna spend time fixing it, so Iāll probably just keep this pack how it is and do it different next timeā, which I then took to the absolute extreme and concluded that you wouldnāt fix this pack.
Like you say, things usually sound different in person. Things are also very easy to be misunderstood when theyāre read by some stranger on the internet that youāve never actually met.
Looking forward to pictures 
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For anyone who cares (or remembersā¦since itās been a bit over a week), M&A BD Electronics has received my return of the P42a cells (they got them on the 7th), and have neither refunded me yet nor replied to my emails.
So thatās fun. I wonāt be ordering anything from them ever again. Went ahead and opened a PayPal case, I felt it was appropriate at this point.
Hooray.
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pics coming soon
also when i said leave as is i meant about what he said with heating the cells (he said it may ruin them)
hard to sometimes understand what people are saying especially since i type in much shorter sentences then i would speak.
Sounds like a company I knowā¦
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I prefer 5.5mm over 4 as they donāt tend to come out on their own.
That seller also ghosted me about returning my 200 sketchy cells, but the moment I filed a Alibaba claim they started talking againā¦
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I usually heatshrink them so they donāt fall out. I had the same issue.
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@legend27
the method i opted for was to add extra nickle on top (15mm wide nickel) to support the current
i attempted to take the nickel off on some practice cells but realized it wasnt a viable option for this time.
this way the current should be ok to transfer through (the nickel covers 5 out of the 6 cells)
all these issues will never occur again on future packs.
(looks messy in the picture but in person its fine and the welds are good. think its just the flux making it look like that)
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Gross. I hope it works out positively for you.
Just wishing to put this behind me. Iāve learned a good amount from it, and this community, so Iām doing things differently going forward.
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Tbh, I would had soldered on the folded slab of the nickel. But thatās me. You can genuinely tell itās your first time.
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