Lipos don't require cycling durring storage to remain in good condition. All they require is that you store them at 3.8v per cell. The PL8 has a feature for doing just that.
ORIGINAL: jlkonn
I just placed my order for one with Chris.
The thing about the charger that is attractive to me is being able to cycle/condition the
battery sets. Right now it's 12F here in NE Ohio so it'd be hard for me to set the plane out and
run the batteries. I've thought about hooking light bulbs, soldering irons and stuff up to load the
sets but I'm afraid I'd get distracted one day and over discharge them. This way it will be much
safer to do...especially running the charger thru a laptop and being able to monitor and change parameters.
I can see this thing easily paying for itself.
JLK