ok heres the deal
i got this charger a few weeks ago but i cant seem to figure out how to just balance my battery. is it even a function? i would assume it would just balance a battery if it is a lipo balancing charger. if you could please point me in the right direction or have any ideas please please help.

ps the manual doesnt really have anything about actually balancing the battery just telling you have to read the cell voltage

Page 5 in the manual is what you want to look at. Obviously you have to have both the main power wires and balancer wires connected to the charger. Looks like the charger doesn't really care whether you balance or not, but you should be able to press SEL for 2 sec and get the balancer view so you can watch cells voltages. At this point, the charger is balancing....

I think this is as good as it gets with this charger....

Yeah when it gets down to charging at 1amp and takes forever to finish off those last few mAH that is when it is balanceing

If you have the board plugged in and the balance wire plugged in it just does it automatically... nothing complicated

(I love this charger)

Great thanks for the help guys
I was trying to figure it out last night and it was driving me crazy

Lipo charging is two separate phases - the CC part (constant current) is the faster part at the charge rate you select, the CV part (constant voltage) is the last part and its much slower. The lipo is being topped off at constant voltage and you'll see the current fall off slowly down to near zero where the lipo is fully charged.

This is just the normal lipo charge process. Your charger may not do any balancing in the CC part and do it all in the CV phase. Some chargers let you select when the balancing occurs, some don't.

You may have to send it back to TP to get it updated if you don't have the required cable. Without the proper updates, it sometimes will not recognize that the battery is even plugged into the balance board.

well it recognizes the battery but it will stop charging part way through the one battery cause its too far out of balance apparently

you can not just blance the battery. if the lipo is that far out of blance. you have to blance the cells Individuality. a guy at my local track built a blance plug for the Thunder Power charger to Individuality blance each sell as it charges up. i will ask him saturday how he did it. and reply back, he had to do this to my SMC lipo and it worked.

sounds interesting

do you guys have any issues as far as accuracy with these chargers?
i put almost 5300mah into my 5000mah turnigys. voltage never goes below 3.2 each cell. voltage at max charge is 8.4

nope my Thunder power charger does good. no blance problems at all.