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What they said ^What does it mean to balance charge a battery?
I thank you for the reply, I'm just learning the things about rc but anyways thanks for the reply.Generally this is for LiPo batteries, if you're still using NiMh then there is no balancing necessary.
When LiPo's first came out, I never balanced my LiPo's in order to get faster charge times. What this means is that one of the cells will get slightly over charged while the other cell is left slightly under charged... I periodically checked the cells after a charge and they were generally within 0.07V within each other which I felt was nominal.
More info here on the risks of over charging LiPo cells:
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries
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In my case, my batteries would age faster than I could hit the reduced cycle limit.
I have since bought a higher quality charger and I always balance my LiPo's now where having a high balance current rate is what I've found to be extremely important to me: