[lincpimp]

Do you guys really think that MA assemble the packs...? Maybe (and I stress maybe) they put the main leads on and the balancer taps. Maybe. I took alot of them apart, and the early examples had the al tabs press crimped together. Later models with the copper (paper thin and press crimped to the same al tabs and sorta hidden under the foil) might have been soldered together.

I am guessing they order the packs as 2s, 3s,4s, etc and add the wires, taps and shrink. I can put those items on very fast, maybe 5mins a pack. Not to say I have assembled many packs, only a few hundred. And out of those maybe 50 were put together as individual cells. Given their layout and some 8hr days I could churn out some packs. Especially if you had one person per station and did it assembly line style. Pre cut the shrink, tin all of the balancer wires and main leads and then have at it. I can see at least 100 packs an hour come out if you had 3-4 people.