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Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded (techxplore.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Once it's balanced and wired it's impossible to be imbalanced again though. The risk is only during initial assembly and you accidentally includes an empty cells among fully charged cells.

building a battery for my house

Uh yeah that's totally different league than building a power bank though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

this is only true if they're 1s. but all bets are off if you have cell groups. God forbid you use them to make anything remotely useful like an ebike battery or home power storage.