No, neither balance. However both are good quality chargers. I personally use the Orion Carbon as after testing the true voltage output of quite a few chargers I found the Orion one to have the best accuracy at the connectors.
I then chose to in line balance charge through a Trakpower balancer almost every charge, I think mainly because I've got so many years of nursing nicad and nimh cells it kind of feels right to balance all the time even though you probably need to do it once in a while. What I have found is there is a slight voltage drop through the balance (I have) of about 0.03V, but I'm not in the slightest bit concerned by this because I neither struggle for voltage or capacity on the Team Vampire cells I run so the 1% (?) lower performance I might get is a price I'm happy to pay for knowing the cells are charged right every time.
Another reason I use the balancer is that I have a cheap supposed balance charger off ebay which when used by itself overcharges the lipo. The balancer has a 8.40V cutoff all of its own so when used in line, though the cheap charger is happy to keep going the balancer cuts off, it's like extra protection.
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