Originally Posted by pablo040

I remember when balancing became all the rage a few years ago, and having a battery manufacturer telling me it was overrated.
So last year I bought a pack for one of my cars I only used for practice - so it tended to get abused and misused, and run a lot compared to my race packs - and as an experiment I decided to never balance it and see what happened.
After a full year, and dozens and dozens of charges, I charged it up as I normally would at the track (no balance adapter) and then plugged it into my balance meter - and the cells read within 0.10 volts of each other.