What is happening chief?! Good to see you over here!
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Thanks for confirming...soloinig your theories about the battery are mostly correct. the smart battery circuitry only cares about the lipo battery when it comes to reporting telemetry and charging. if you connect a larger battery to the chip, telemetry is still reported but some of the information will be inaccurate. and of course if you are charging, it will get under charged because the chip is still using the stock battery parameters.
Now that you are mentioning it, you are right! I forgot about the fact that I was able to arm the Solo, and THEN the "alarm" went off. But I was still able to arm. Well, that should make it way easier to use a different battery, if you can simply disable the battery failsafe. However, I wonder if you can disable the battery failsafe, but still change the capacity and at least get an accurate percentage reading of your pack?! BTW, how do I disable battery failsafe?...but as far as powering solo directly, it works with only pos and neg applied and can even be armed. the problem is that failsafe will kick in because capacity isn't being reported. you can get around that by disabling battery failsafe. i currently use a 12v power supply connected to solo with a female molex ten60 connector (pos and neg only) and i can power solo. if i boost the power to 15v i can arm.
I haven't read anything about it either. I just figured the same thing as you. I leave my batteries lying around and the charge goes down. My "regular" batteries do not do that......i've not seen any specifics on the self discharge either way. i do know that if i leave my batteries for 2 weeks, they lose charge. so i'm assuming that they self discharge and won't go past a specific level.
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