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.
.1? Or .01? There's a huge difference there.
If my packs showed the difference between 4.01 and 4.11, that's a HUGE problem. Mine always balance within .01 of each other. Always shows something like 4.17/4.18 or whatever voltage it is at that particular moment.
I've never seen a 2s+ lipo that has a .1 variance in voltages between cells.