LBA10 Balancer with M1 Cells?

[BrianG]

I was looking over the documentation for my LBA10 last night and started wondering if it could be used to balance a pack made of M1 cells. The LBA10 works several ways; it cuts off if the pack discharges down to 2.75v (perfect for the M1 cells?), cuts off if any cells goes over 4.3v, and keeps each cell within 0.05v of each other.

So, if I used an M1 specific charger (or do some type of adaptive CC charging so the max voltage doesn't go over 3.6v/cell), I should be able to use this balancer right? Sure, it won't provide the optimum cutoffs, but that's what the charger is supposed to do. But it should keep each cell balanced with respect to each other.

Thoughts?

BTW: I found out the Hyperion 7i does NOT go into a CV mode with lipos; it's more of an "adaptive" CC. When the voltage reaches 4.2v/cell, it simply constantly adjusts the charge current to keep the voltage to that level. I thought that was kinda interesting. Another thing I found out, the powersupply uses boost mode switching. That probably doesn't mean much to most people, but this charger uses the battery voltage to determine the power supply voltage. The circuitry simply boosts the 12v input to a point a little higher than that. Pretty simple yet effective. :)