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Hmm, yeah you're right, lead acid batteries do need to be balanced as well (well if the internet says so, I guess its correct right?). So my bad - I was under the impression its not really neccessary.
Ok well I will order the balancer at the end of the week once pay day arrives
You can get by in the meantime if you have a 12V charger, you can parallel the batteries (like jumpstarting a car) and give them a full charge. That way they are in balance when you place them in series and they should remain in balance for quite a while.
I have already attached them, I did however make sure the voltages reported by the batteries were the same using my voltmeter. I imagine its not the best option but it should fine until the balancer arrives. Correct?
Correct. The charging curve of LFP peaks at the very top of the voltage, so because you are charging at the beginning of where the curve goes up, you have less chance of one battery hitting max voltage. Just carry on checking each battery voltage, if one battery gets close to 14.6V, then lower the BULK/FLOAT voltage until you get the balancer.
Thank will do
No worries.
It should be fine if it's reached 28V with no issues.
Lights?
The booklet shows what looks like lights on the front. Even some online pages show th3 same. But I don't see any.
@RedViking, does your balancer have lights? What BT app do you use?
No lights.
It looks like when they are balanced no lights should flash:
