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Oh I missed your first pic, which suggests that balancing is supported? But still I don't see how, without individual leads on the cells...

Yeah but they don't say anywhere that the built-in cpu charges each cell individually. They just mention over-heating and over-charging protections, which are trivial, because even the cheapest $1 chinese battery charger supports that. I found this video and you can clearly see there are no balancing leads on the cells: Frankly I'm very disappointed that balancing does not seem to be supported by Makita. This surely has a big impact on the battery life...

That's the thing, I look at their batteries and they only have + and - connections with the charger. If they had balancing the batteries would need like at least 5 more connections

Does anyone know if Makita lithium ion 18V batteries are balanced by the Makita charger?