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The battery is a 4 cell assembly. The B+ and B- are connected to the positive most and negative most cells. Wiring internally connects the cells to each other in series. The external charger provides power to the string as a series, leaving balancing up to the internal circuitry. The data pins...

The battery contains all the balancing/monitoring circuitry internally. That's what makes it "Smart". A balance charger would only be useful if an externally accessible balancing port was present like most standard LiPO batteries. The only external connections are B+, B-, and the two data pins...

I've followed the calibration guide with one of my batteries twice using the solex discharge method and still haven't noticed any change in the voltage separation between cells. 1 is around .07v lower than the others. It gets down to around 1.5 to 1.7 volts when the pack is a whole has reached...