brian, if your asking is it a must, no you do not need to balance charge everytime, does it hurt no, how often do you need to balance, depends on the quality of the cells, as you know i ran two or three times a week, i will put my lipos on a balancer once a month or every other month, they balance themselves in about 5 minutes, usually less
SIR may have the adapters you need for balancing in stock