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Old 09-28-2008 | 03:30 PM
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Default RE: Tx/Rx charging question


ORIGINAL: gregoryda

A lot of you guys have multiple airplanes that you take to the field with you. How do you go about charging different rx's? Do you buy a 2nd wall wart charger or is there other chargers that will can handle multiple tx/rx's at one time? DG
Accu-cycle Elite.

It is a good thing to have an intelligent charger. It's great to have a charger that can also cycle your batteries. Chargers that tell you how many mAh your battery used today for however many flights you flew are really, really useful. Least important, is that it's nice to have a start-and-forget charger that will recharge the day's batteries in about an hour.

When you can afford it, a really useful piece of equipment is an intelligent charger.

When you get one, it's nice if it'll work at home and at the field. And it's nice if it can do both a TX and a RX at once. And the Accu-Cycle Elite does all that. It can also do LiPos.

When I get home from the field, I plug my airplane and my transmitter into the Elite and go take a shower. After supper I head down to the basement and see how much juice was put back into the batteries. I know how much I flew and how much the two should need. If either took more, I know it's time to cycle it. The Elite will cycle it overnight and tell me if the battery has bounced back or not. I've retired a couple of batteries since getting my first intelligent charger/cycler. That beats having lost a couple of airplanes.