Indeed.

Ok, the originator should buy a Battery Tender. That'll take care of maintaining the charge in his Pb flight box battery, which by the way does not exhibit self-discharge to any significant degree.

When he wants to put his Rx and Tx packs on maintenance charge, he can go get an appliance timer and just use his OEM wall-warts to put the NiCds or NiMhs on floating charge as well.

If we assume he might also have rechargeable batteries in his digital camera, video camera, cell phones, cordless phones, TV and dish remotes, and a half-dozen other household appliances, he can get timers and do the wall-wart thing with them as well.

Down the road, the modeler won't be very satisfied with Battery Tenders and wall-warts/timers because his rechargeable batteries will have quite literally been tickled to death.

I've never done that of course. I've never had to replace two 9Z packs because the 1100 mAh NiCds died from internal shorts caused by maintaining them with wall-warts/timers. I've never lost high capacity flight packs due to 'whiskers'.

I have an Accucycle, Fast Field Charger, and an Einstein collecting dust on the shelf. I have 6 Battery Tenders (found 'em on sale at Harbor Freight a couple years back). They're collecting dust as well.

As for the Triton being difficult to use, "She" found my 4 Tritons in the shop and stuck out her lip. I'm not stupid, so there's a Triton in the house also.

If a Redheaded left-handed database administrator can figure out how to use a Triton to deal with all the rechargeable batteries in a reasonable well-appointed house, there is absolutely no reason a model builder/flyer can't master the thing.

As for Tritons turning LiPo packs into puff pastry, what's really true is that there are some people who eat at McDonald's because they can't manage grilling a burger without setting the house on fire.

But like you said, there sure is a lot of misinformation in this group.