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Old 04-05-2009 | 06:10 PM
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Duster_360
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Lots of Ice user use the Equinox balancer, but if you're charging at more than 3amps, it will need a high power adapter. This can be eliminated by buyong a Hyperion LBA10 balancer (pretty much the same thing) that will allow charging at 10amps. Here is the LBA10 -

http://www.allerc.com/product_info.p...oducts_id=2916

Both of these will balance standalone or while charging (charge thru) which will give you a little higher charge since standalone balancing is just reducing voltage of the cells to lowest voltage of any one cell.

You will have to match the type of balance tap your lipo has to connect all this together. This is the other connection beside the main power leads. There are 4 type of balance taps in use currently. Align, (or JST), Hyperion, Thunderpower and Kokam taps. You can find a little info about which style tap others are using here, these are the common ones -

http://www.allerc.com/product_info.p...oducts_id=2916

Astro Blinky is another balancer - thats diff - it works by sliding the balance tap onto its connector pins and doesn't use a balance connection. Its a little more delicate than the 2 mentioned above cause of these connector pins -

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXMRZ9&P=ML
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