Hello William,
Thanks so much for stopping by, and welcome to CPF.
Now the final pieces of information are falling into place...
Brilliant work on designing the conditioning algorithm. This allows all the cells to be balanced and become ready for use at about the same time. For multi cell applications, this is very convenient.
I did not mean to stir things up by not following standard protocol, but I was curious as to how this charger worked. Now the conditioning cycle makes perfect sense, and if I only want to discharge cells, I may be able to figure out how to do that and skip the initial charge.
I have some C and D cells that I like to do a discharge cycle on every so often. Since they are almost empty, I am just interested in discharging them, then charging them back up. Kind of a mini conditioning cycle. I think I can figure out how to do that now...
It looks like I was off on the discharge rate. I will go back and edit my comments to reflect reality...
Tom