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Old 02-27-2006 | 02:18 PM
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Default RE: Balancer, How important??
Tests done by FMA and for FMA pretty well supports that balancing significantly increases cycle life, regardless of the capacity of the packs. It would be interesting to see what Jason Shulman has in the nature of test data to support his claim.


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I am pretty new to electrics. I have 3 Thunder Power Li-Poly 1320mah packs. My charger is an Astroflight 109. How important is the need to balance the batteries? I was at the WRAM show this weekend and talked to Jason Shulman. He said the smaller Li-poly packs(1320 being pretty small) don't really need to be balanced. The guys at FMA said that balancing is one of the most important things for a Li-poly battery, regardless of size. Just wondering what some other people thought about balancing.

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Tony Gagliardi Jr.
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