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Old 07-31-2009, 01:43 AM
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just a quick question. since this charger has an internal balancer does that mean that it will automaticaly balancer the lipo everytime i plug it in? thanks

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...ernal-Balancer
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I'm not familiar with that charger, but it looks like it'll either automatically balance it, or you can program it to balance. However, I want to make sure you realize it's a DC ONLY charger. It won't charge off of 110 without hooking up a power supply. I assume you knew that, but I just wanted to make sure.
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darn i completly spaced that out.... well im kinda on a budget and im looking for a cheaper lipo charger w/blancer. how does this look?... this is for a 5000mah 2s

http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...arger-2-4-Cell
Old 07-31-2009, 08:52 AM
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The align charger is ok but it really doesn't balance well. Plus I think the max output is like 1amp or something which means it would take 5 hours to charge a 5000mah battery.
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That charger does look a little weak. With a charger, especially when charging lipo's, it's not a good place to skimp. I would save a little more money and get something better. Usually for around $90-110 you can find pretty good chargers. I use an MRC 977. It does everything I need except balance, but I have an equinox balancer I plug in to take care of that. The whole setup all together is about $135 and I LOVE it!!!! The older MRC's weren't very good for charging lipo, but they've fixed that issue now and I've never had one problem charging ANY kind of battery properly with it. I use it for NiCd, NiMh, Lipo, and Rx packs and it charges all of them beautifully. My batteries also last MANY charge cycles using this charger.

If you want to get a whole bunch of good answers to this, post a question on what charger to get in the "batteries and chargers" forum. Their are a lot of really helpful people on there that helped me out a great deal when I first got back into the hobby.
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so to charge with a dc what do you hook it up to?
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You need an AC DC adapter. I think A main has some. Check out the team orion lipo DC charger
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not really familiar with the ofna charger but we run 2 of these http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXVRS6&P=0 and a GFX35 for nimh battery's, the triton does a great job and is ac/dc which is nice for indoor race's
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ORIGINAL: ryansiki

You need an AC DC adapter. I think A main has some. Check out the team orion lipo DC charger
where can i get that adapter?

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