I'm fairly new to lipo & life battery's.... The ones I have I always balance charge, I'm looking to buy a voltage checker what do you guys recommend? Thanks...

question..why do you want/need a voltage checker? You looking for something "in car"?

Otherwise a standard volt meter which can be found for about 5 bucks will tell you what you need to know.

+1 A standard VOM is all you need to check cells. I purchased a digital balancer to check my cells and balance them between runs without charging. This isn't necessary, but I like the ability to re-balance after runs and to check if a battery may be going south. It keeps my cells healthy and helps to prevent me from over discharging a cell.

I have one of these and it works great.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...itor_2_6S.html

Most lipo balance chargers can be used as a cell checker. Although I can see how one of the little checkers would be handy to have for quick checks, always a good idea.

+ on having a volt ohm meter for general use and trouble shooting, a cheapy generally works fine.

thats what i do, i plug the lipo onto the charger and hit sorage mde, and then then the volts pop up and it tells me how many volts are in each cell, i usualy tend to run them to 3.7 and then recharge from there as i am racing, and then i let em sit at that voltage!!

My charger is usually charging, so having a normal, small, easy, voltage checker really simplifies the readings.

While you may never experience any problems, it's been proven time and time again that you should store your lipos at 3.8v per cell. Not 4.2v. And believe it or not, that's where you should cut them off at when running as well. This procedure will help the longevity and keep the IR low throughout the packs lifetime.