do portable radios balance charge?

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Amateur Radio@sh.itjust.works · 1 year ago

I noticed a difference between my lithium Yaesu/Wouxun HTs battery packs and some Motorola part 90 units.

It looks like there are 3 contacts on the back of the ham radio packs (I think 1 is for sensing temperature?) and 4 on the Motorola packs. The Motorola packs are “smart” IMPRES batteries that go through a “conditioning” cycle periodically.

I feel pretty confident that the IMPRES packs are doing cell balancing, but I’m wondering if ham lithium batteries do the same. I’m pretty religious about keeping my Li-poly packs balanced, so am just curious how these are working.

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Could always do a check with your multimeter to see if it is.
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