[jhautz]

what kind of balancer are you using?

I have had some take a while too. I just plug them in and leave them overnight, then unplug them in the morning so I'm not sure how long they actually took to balance. I tend to see more imbalance in the TrueRC packs when they are pushed very hard. They are only 10-12C constant packs anyway. I have just gotten in the habbit of balanceing them at the end of the day every time I run them. The higher priced / higher C rated packs tend to stay balanced better but thats the trade off for the lower price IMO.

I use a Hyperion LBA6 and an Apache 505 to do my off line bablancing and it seems to me that the Apache does a faster job and when its done the cells are perfectly balanced. The LBA6 leaves some small (very) vaience still according to my volt meter. And the Apache was alot cheaper too.