Originally Posted by
Duster_360
Yes, you were prob looking at 4.09 - max lipo cell voltage is 4.2v and 4.9 is such a serious overcharge. If it was 4.9v, your charger would have been doing a horrible job letting it overcharge like that!
You can use a dvm/MM and check the voltage of the pack and each cell through the balance plug. Touch the metal that shows on the bacl with your test leads. The outer two balance wires should give you pac voltage. Checking across a pair of the wires shuld give you cell voltages.
BTW, your orig question - 4.09v vs 4.11v is close enough to consider them balanced. I'd be a little concerned why they are not closer to 4.2 than they are. Doe sthis lipo have a lot of cycles on it? Do you remember the 1st voltage you saw when you put it on teh charger - in other words, how low (voltage) did you discharge the lipo?
I just checked and total pack voltage is 8.07 and cells are 4.050 and 4.005. This pack is brand new and this is its first charge. I did notice what the voltage was when I plugged it in to the charger. After I got the pack, before charging it, it was ran for about 20-30 minutes. Power was the same all the way through and my VXL-3S never kicked off the LVC and I did verify it was in LIPO mode. Another concern I have is that the charger showed it put 5000mAh into battery. Wouldn't the battery have to be totally drained for that to happen on a 5000mAh battery?