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Originally Posted by Northy
If that happens Lion-O then one half of your saddles is knackered 
You are thinking about it the wrong way, you are thinking of filling them from empty like we did with NimH cells etc.
If you had your pair of saddles as above and they were that far out of balance before you put them on charge on a normal balance charger, all it would do is put 2600mah into one saddle and 3200mah into the other - it does it for you without seeing. The end outcome is the same, both are FULLY charged at the end of charge  |
Bingo. By using the balance charger you are just ignorant to what is going into each individual cell. It only tells you that one of the cells has taken so many ma but you don't know which one and you don't know how far out each cell is.
A balance charger simply bleeds off the excess current from whichever cell or cells reaches 4.2v first until the others catch up.
Bigred ma has got nothing to do with balance it is all about the voltage.