Originally Posted by
anthonyscardina
I would stay away from the 3rd option. I used to build my leads like that because it was cleaner looking. Once I started using an icharger and looked at my IR, it was reading around 45 milliohms. Once I ran 16awg all the way to the positive and negative from the balance lead, my IR read under 2 milliohms.
Similar situation here. Built a 1s cable for a buddy where the balance leads connected right to the charge leads where they terminated at the charger. Upon first use he was concerned his new Reedy Zapper was crap because his iCharger was showing over 13 milliohms IR. I plugged his battery into my charger, using charging cables that have separate balancing leads all the way down to the battery plugs, and saw a little over 2 milliohms IR. Plugged my cable into his charger and saw the same ~2 milliohm IR. Lesson learned. I always build charging cables with all balance leads terminating at the battery.