"balancers are just a money grab"

[lincpimp]

Well, A blinky is just about useless from a safety standpoint. Plus it does nothing to provide you with actual info. It is a dinosaur and should only be used with an astro 109 (inside joke).

Buying a decent charger is one of those things that should be federally mandated, just ditch the 2 oz per flush toilets, make people buy decent lipo chargers and give me back that old toilet that could handle a mature sheep in a single flush!!!

When all of the "lipo pros" over at RCC start puffing their maxamps packs they will start blaming everything under the sun save for the lack of pack monitoring. I cannot belive that old Jason has not stepped in and preached to them that balancers are needed (especially with maxamps packs). I 75% discharged a maxamps 10000 mah pack about 2 years ago and it took 27hrs to balance, and then needed balancing during and after a full charge.

Bottom line, if you are not using a good charger and at least a charge thru balancer (like a lba6 or 10 equinox, checkpoint, v balancer, etc) you are running the risk of a puffed pack, or possibly a lipo fire. Stand alone balancers are a thing of the past, we are not clinging to 10c lipos (save for the maxamps cult) why not move on with charge equipment as well.