Lipo safety

[MetalMan]

Originally Posted by coolhandcountry

I have accually talked to some other people. They have been running lipo for years. I asked them about balancing lipo. They have not balanced since they started running them. I know it may make the cells last longer. What is the chances of it accually destroying the pack?

If I were to take a guess, I would think their batteries are Thunder Power batteries. TP generally matches the cells in their packs well enough that the packs shouldn't need to be balanced.
Not using a balancer on a pack with high quality cells that are matched by IR and capacity shouldn't be a problem unless there is some physical damage. Lower quality/non-matched packs will have a much greater chance of going out of balance, and so with them there is more danger involved with not using a balancer.