Found it
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Itās sketchy as sin but I promise you this will work, make sure the charger is set to Li-Ion (4.20V) and like 1.00A or something small (it will balance better)
Only do one at a time, or you will be in trouble. It will try to get to full charge so watch it carefully
The XT90 is just a spacer, need to apply pressure on the quarter I am using to connect to positive 
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ahh ok, got it! I can use a hobby charger like b6max right? I got one of those lying around.
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If the iMax B6 will do a 1s pack, youāre golden
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It does. You have to be in ācharge modeā not ābalance modeā otherwise it will throw a ābalance lead errorā
I use my B6 all the time like this. 
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I just bought the iMax B6 V2 and I have no idea how to use itā¦itās charging a 3s lipo and at 1A and Iām not touching it after that 
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cool cool, very interesting. Thanks guys, gonna order those arduino cables and then weāll see how goes 
They have 3 types, M to F, F to F, and M to Mā¦you want M to M
Amazon has a bunch of different packs of them, I got 40 of each so I could use them for a bunch of things (removable parallel packs)
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do you know how to get your aligator clips to a 1S input on the imax?
It has an adapter for the main port to clips right?
ummm Iām not so sure, itās not so clear to me whatās going on lol. Thereās like aligator to main power input and aligator to output cords
yeah, you just use the main charge port, no balance connector.
Then navigate to the lipo or liion mode, then the āchargeā mode (not balance charge) and choose 1s. It runs a test and gives you an confirmation message if you did it right.
Go slow with those little wires, 1-2 amps max
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one more questionāwhat power source r u using for imax? I remember having trouble finding the right one back wen I got this. I think the size of the barrel plug I couldnāt figure out
Iām using the Imaxb6 AC. it plugs into a 110v AC outlet. You can use the supplied connector to power a DC supply unit from a car battery or some other 12v nominal source
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I hate that I have to jerry rig stuff up for these things What I did before was cut the end off a 12V adapter I had and soldered on a xt60 and then used clips into the xt60 to the power input. =/ I mean it works but itās just jank and suboptimal
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I wasnāt expecting much from this guy, but Iāve got an old 12S 15ah lipo pack that gets pretty out of wack after a few cycles that I used to take apart and balance each pack manually, and this balances it out over a few hours or even during a charge.
Iāve used it w/ V deltas as large as .1 above 50% charge and as high as .25 below 50% charge. Havenāt yet tested it for drain, but I think it could make for an interesting BMS replacement.
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how does this thing work?
You plug however many balance wires you have/can into it and it balances that shit. So any of the 12S or higher boards would just take the 12s balance connector off a battery pack and do its thing.
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so wait, I could just swap my 12s balance connector from the bms into this thing and then charge with my p-groups all out of wack and it will balance the whole pack for me? 
it cnāt do 12s, at once
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