I said 25C 4900's, and were talking about 2s packs, so I dont see how anyone would get thrown off?

And in either way lol, TrakPowers would all probably out run the cp pack, low or high mah

Agreed, the 2S 4900 Trakpowers are their best packs IMO.

I cant really say, I have only ran there 25C 4900's (own those) And ran my buddys B44 with there high mah saddle packs

does any of you guys know if that lba10 balancer will charge and balance the lipo at the same time through the team checkpoint charger? or does he have to disconnect the lba10 and then charge the lipos? im asking this question to 3 other forums and noone seems to know.

IDK about that charger, but id imagine it would balance and charge at the same time

I use a Super Brain 989, with a V balancer, so I cant say

The LBA10 needs a special harness for Trakpower Lipos. It can be purchased here:
http://www.allerc.com/product_info.php?products_id=3702

thanks but hes not getting the trakpower lipos. hes gonna buy them truerc lipos

Ok, here we go. Let me know if I lose you on this!

The Checkpoint charger has 4mm bullet output. You can connect any charge-thru-balancer to that. Then connect the lipo to the balancer using the required harness.

I would suggest to use the lba10, as it can handle 10amps charge thru. Some balancer can only handle 2-3amps run thru them.

I think that true rc can equip their lipos with a hyperion balance plug. that way you can use the included adapters that come with the lba10 to connect it to the lipo. The balancer also has large gauge wire outputs. You solder a deans plug to them and plug the main lead of the lipo to them.

What happens during charging is that the large gauge wires from the charger go thru the balancer and charge the lipo. The smaller balancing wires are just hooked to the balancer to let it "see" what the individual cells in the lipo are doing. If one cell's voltage is too high, the balancer applies a small load to that cell in order to drain it down to match the other cells. That is what is called balancing the pack. The other benefit to a charge-thru-balancer is that it can stop the charge if any of the packs cells go over 4.2v. Plus you can balance the pack while you charge it, so it takes less time than charging the pack, then balancing the pack with a stand-alone balancer (astroflight blinky for example)

I always use a charge-thru-balancer while charging a lipo, it is the safest, and best way to charge a lipo. It gaurantees that overcharging will not occur, and helps keep the pack in balance while charging too.

thanks lincpimp. you confirmed every question i had. ill tell my friend to buy the lba10. thanks everyone for helping us out on this!