Electrical – Using a tp4056 along with a BMS BOARD

1. I don't think this is by definition a wasted exercise to your developing interest in battery technologies. I do think there are better ways. There are charger ICs on the market for nearly any number of cells in series. But, if it's for testing your idea, this should be fine.

2. Yes, but they will regardless of how you charge, discharge or store them. Just if you let them discharge below a certain level or charge over another level, they will degrade much faster. With an intelligent charger system, which I think your PCBs are, overcharging should be protected.

3. In charging: No, in fact, they all get charged to full. In discharging yes. This can cause increased deterioration, which then makes them get out of balance faster, which causes a snowball effect. How can you prevent that? When they are in use, make sure they are protected from over-discharge. By this mean, each cell individually. Just checking if the total gets below 7V or 8V is not going to help, you need to have something that protects each cell from going below 2.5V. Here I note that some of these charge managers I mentioned also do this for you; they are a complete battery pack protection solution.

4. You will need a set of isolated DC-DC converters. Which types are the cheapest depends on how and where you get them and where you are having them delivered, but many different manufacturers make DC-DC converters with 5V output at 100mA to over 20A. Just make sure they are fully isolated.

You can't charge each cell of multicell battery with TP4056 ICs.

See this:

TP4056 modules with 18650 lithium cells

and this:

series charging three 18650 batteries with three chargers off the same 5V supply

for example.

Also you can't combine this BMS with TP4056 (what the reason?). By the way, no charger can charge cell "ideally".