DAMN WILLY! I wasn't serious when I asked you to take it apart and take hi-res photos!!!
If it wasn't just a bad solder joint I think I would just call up ecig.com & tell them they sent you a bad battery (of course they are out of red at the moment). I would definitely see what they can do for you before I cut open the shrink wrap on that lipo.
I am still curious what the cells voltages are, especially when low. As that tells me a lot. So far I have three DX200 battery packs for one DX200. I might get more before ecig runs out of them.
Same price as buying a fullymax from Evolv.
Here are my two worst, but still usable.
Yup, all three cells were balanced to 4.20v each. But discharging it is always the same low cells with each pack. When series charging without even doing any balancing yet, they all are nearly identical when fully charged. What this tells me is the low cells have slightly less capacity than the higher cells. I could test the capacity of each cell too if I wanted too. If I had to make an educated guess, I would say about 30 to 40mah lower capacity for the low ones.
If yours isn't worse than mine, I wouldn't be too worried. These FullyMax packs when the voltage drops below 3.70v per cell, there isn't much left in them anyway. And even as bad as mine looks, they still have over 900mah capacity per cell. I even balanced them at the low end and charged them individually at 3.5v each and then did a full charge. But the low cell will be too high then and balancing just bleeds off what you put into it. The DNA200 will still stop before any cell becomes dangerously low anyway. And that is the important thing.
Because it is a lipo inside a pack that they sold you, that exclusion is a real stretch & it is reasonable that you should expect it to work, & if not, it is reasonable that they should help you exchange it for one that does. Worth contacting them for help in the matter.
Perhaps you can fix it, but the symptoms you describe indicate a pack with a faulty cell. If Ecig.com tells you they won't stand behind it, I'm sure you will & it will probably be cheaper than sending the bad battery back, but at least make the call & see what they will do for you before you void your warranty.
