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I'll deffinately do that. Way quicker for sure. I wanted to visualize the batteries in the space they will be living and had to remove the bms's to get the batteries apart. In hindsight, I should have just put them back on. I have both packs nearly perfect now at 3.450V/cell. 2 cells to go.

Thank you for responding so quickly everyone. It's the first charge for these packs and I'd like them as close as possible before putting them in series and hooking up the BMS (24V 300A Daly smart bms with heating module )

If I get these 2 batteries close enough to full SOC to put them in series and hook up the new BMS, I was hoping the balancer would look after the rest. Each of the 3 cells in parallel have now become one cell for me, which is an issue for me now. I'll never know exactly how each pouch is performing.

I purchased 2 of these batteries at a pretty good deal ( did not want to wait 75 days for other cells to arrive ) hoping I would take them apart and use the prismatic cells to build a 24V battery.

I opened them up and its built nice, but 3P pouch cells in series. I removed the BMS and took them out of the cases.

So this is where I'm at. Charging both batteries with 13.8V and 5A. I'll connect the 2 packs in series and attach the 24V 8S BMS. I'm wondering at what point I should stop charging as far as milliamps and if I should use the BMS leads that are on the packs or solder new ones to the bus bars?

Yes. I was a bit disappointed, but its what I have now and should be fine

One cell in each of my battery packs has reached the target voltage of 3.45V while the rest of them are all sitting right close to 3.357V. Does anyone know if this resistor is ok to use for discharging the higher cell ?

Would this resistor be fine for dropping the voltage on one cell that has already reached my desired 3.45V ? The rest are sitting right around 3.357V

I keep checking the balance leads and set the voltage. As it gets closer I'll monitor more closely, but the volts should stay the same and the amp should start to drop as the cells absorb. Hopefully this is right. I did not want to tear these batteries down any farther to set in parallel. Thats...