lipo was being charged at a 1c rate( 3.2 or something like that). Lipo was being balanced with a seperate blinky balancer. Now this leads me to believe that the best way to charge + balance a lipo is with the built in circuitry of the charger; so that the balance reading can communicate with the charger how much to charge and exactly when to stop charging. All it takes is one cell to be off voltage (overcharged) for the pack to begin it's swelling + bursting/smoking. Can't see it much in the pic, but that lipo was accordianed 3x it's size before it burst into a mushroom cloud.