It always cracks me up how people pipe up and give their opinion and i stress it is usually opinion regarding charging lipo's. Quite often it is wrong as this thread shows. There are a couple of responses that atleast show some of you understand the princible and execution of balancing.
There are several ways to balance a serial string of cells but for the purpose of how the rc community use their cells we will be top balancing the cells to 4.2v each. What this means is that regardless of what voltage they are at when at anything less than 100% charged then as long as each individual cell is at 4.2v when fully charged then they are balanced. This is regardless of how many ma have gone into the cell or how long it takes the cell to finish charging.
If you charge as individual cells as per the OP then as long as the same charger was used to make sure there are no disrepencies between chargers then the cells will be balanced. This can actually be a more accurate way of balancing because there can be desrepencies between the individual balance ports on chargers.
In summary if you charge your cells individually they will be balanced.
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