The anwer is usually YES.

Remember ONE GOOD charger will serve many purposes...

With the ICE or something similiar, you can determine when it is time to start replacing the batteries as you will be able to check their condition, capacity and operating ranges. You can use it to break in motors, condition NiCD's, even resurrect dead NiMH's for use in other purposes.

I've used it to tell me which cell in a NiMH pack went bad, then used the remaining cells to power glow drivers, and starter motors.

If you use LiPo cells you have the piece of mind of knowing that the charger will shut down automatically if the temperature gets too high, or it will not charge a bad potentially dangerous LiPo.

That same charger can be dragged to the field to quick charge receiver batteries and your TX batteries, in case you forgot to charge something the night before and want to run out to the fielld.

I purchased several chargers, including the less expensive variety, but the "workhorse" is the $130.00 charger... at home I power it with a PC power supply that cost all of 8.00 to modify.