Balancing: Why and How?

[pinolelst]

I balance every couple few cycles and find that works fine. If I did it every cycle it seemed like the batteries were still balanced enough that the balancer was hardly working. I have both the Astroflight Blinky and the Thunder Power TP-10 (??) 10 cell balancer and both work fine.The Blinky cost 1/3 of what the TP one did and It does up to 6 cells at a time.
Make sure the balancer and battery taps are compatible.The Thunder Power taps for instance have a narrower pin spacing than most other packs I have and I have to either use the TP-10 balancer or an adapter for the Blinky

Have Fun

Steve