I did pretty much what GremlinCastle described. Over the years I went from near nothing (the charger that came with the radio) to the Ace manual trickle adapter (still have it) to an early Accu-Cycle to the latest Accu-Cycle and now I'm using GP/Electrifly Tritons almost exclusively. Somewhere in there I also got an FMA Einstein, a Hobbico Fast Field Charger, and a four-port Radio South fast charger.

AFAIAC the Triton tops them all, with the only down side being the single output. My models start at 96" wingspan and go up. Most have three very different battery packs onboard - an 4-cell 1650 mAh NiMh for the Rx, a 4-cell 4400 mAh NiCd for servo power ("d" cells in those), and some sort of ignition pack for the glow drivers. The glow packs range from 4-cell 1800 mAh NiCd ("C" cells) down to 4-cell 1650 NiMh packs for the converted Zenoahs.

I even tried the old appliance-timer-and-power-strip "bump the pack once a day" setup. Found out the hard way that the high capacity NiCds in my Futaba 9Z didn't much care for that because the packs dropped dead in less than a year. I swapped 1650 NiMh cells into the Futaba 9Z cases and dropped the timer/power strip thing like a bad habit.

These days I only charge batteries when I know I'm going to need them, like the day before I go flying. I don't too often get a day off as a surprise, but on the rare occaision that I can sneak off to play and the batteries haven't been pumped up, I just hook up the Tritons and charge on the way to the field. Since the Tx and a model with three onboard packs needs four Tritons, that's what I have - 4 Tritons.

I did decide it would be a good thing to standardize on a single connector type for the models, so I use ordinary [link=http://safe.spsp.net/cgi-bin/debco/250189.html]coaxial power plugs[/link], one for each pack in the model. The Triton charging receptacles are banana type, and making up four charging adapters with banana plugs on one end and a coaxial plug on the other was a no-brainer.

Technology keeps on being technological, and someone invented yet another gadget I obviously needed so I'm back in the 'business' of making up adapter cords.

I recently bought a [link=http://www.westmountainradio.com/RIGrunner.htm]"Rig Runner" [/link]to put in the trailer, and a [link=http://www.westmountainradio.com/CBA.htm]CBA II[/link] for testing batteries. Both of these gadgets use PowerPole connectors, and I have a bag full of those connectors collecting dust on a shelf somewhere.

The only thing I actually _know_ about batteries is that although my models are propelled by liquid fuels, they fly on electricity and if you don't have any of that, you don't fly.