felker14

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Just curious to see what everyone has for chargers(how many?) and what is your favorite?
I have (to many)
Sirius Charge Pro Series Plus
Sirius Charge Limited Edition
Sirius Charge Quad
Alpha 4
Accu-Cycle Elite
Hughes Charge + model 1C4S pocket glow start charger( this is great for glow drivers)

Favorite field charger/on the way to field charger is : Sirius Charge Pro Series Plus(Quad charger if taking more then 1 plane to field)

Favorite home charger is : Alpha 4

Its hard to name favorites they all have there +'s and -'s.

The least used charger is the Sirius Charge Limited Edition. Do believe I will be selling this 1 because of lack of use.

I would like to try Schulze charger and Hughes RC Charge + down the road.

So what do you all have.

ptgarcia

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Only one.....Triton.

It charges my NiMH and Li-Ion flight packs without any hiccups. I'm completely satisfied.

guver

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I have every intellipeak made and every piranha made.
I have a 969 and 959 mrc and a bunch of timer chargers too.
I have the peak 400 and triton by great planes.
I also have had all the hobbico accucycles and mkII.

Here are my favorites in order.

Triton
Digital Pulse
Digital Piranha
MRC 969

I use almost exclusivly sub c nimh batts , chargeing 12-16 cells at a time usually and I like looking at digital stuff and graphs.
I'm sure the ice will be one of my favs too when I get one. Too bad I'll need 2 for the e-maxx....

Josey Wales

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I have 2 Alpha 4's...Does everything I need

avionics12

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I have a Miniron Mobil. At the field or at home it does everything I need it to do.

Red Scholefield

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If I had to give up all the charges I have but one, I would keep my Alpha 4 out of the following.

Sommer Miniron
Orbit Microladen
Victor Engineering Super Hi-Q (3)
Alpha 4 (2)
Ace HD 500 (2)
Ace DMVC
Ace CVC
Kokam Lipo 402 & 3 (4)
FMA Einstein
MAHA C777 Plus
Triton
Astro Flight 109
UBA 4
Custom made constant current charger
Robbe Power Peak Infinity 2
FMA SuperNova 250S
Dymond Super Turbo
HP 6289A Precision Power Supply
Micropace

Mike01

I have:

Futaba CDR-5000
Triton
Radio Shack AC/DC peak charger(my first charger)

I've also had the MRC-969.

I keep the Radio Shack because it was my first charger and because nobody else wants it. It's not a bad charger...it can charge at 4A, has a thermal probe and makes cool whinning noises.

I mostly charge GP3300 race packs...but I have every kind of RC vehicle you can think of (except a submarine...at least not yet) so I charge all kinds of batteries.

The Futaba is not a charger...it's a work of art, or a surgical tool, depending on how you look at it. It has no equal. I love it, and I wouldn't give it up for anything.

The Triton is surprisingly good. When I bought my Futaba, a guy at the store offered to trade it for my 969, which I no longer needed. The Triton was sort of the unwanted stepson in that regard. I have no Lithium batteries, nor do I want any until they stop blowing up, so right now it serves as a back up charger when big Futaba is busy. It's come in handy, and most importantly, I trust it. That's saying a lot.

Flying Geezer

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I don't think Red's being straight with us. I bet he has more chargers than that. LOL

Flying Geezer

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I don't think Red's being straight with us. I bet he has more chargers than that. LOL

Okay, lithium lovers, Mike01 has blasphemed your power source. Go get 'em!!!

guver

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I believe the best charger for li-po's is no charger at all, it is a good digital adjustable current and voltage power supply.
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You could concievably charge many series and parallel packs with a 30 volt 20 amp supply. I just think it would be too cool to stare at the display for hours.....ok 1 hour

Hangtime

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On the bench for charging:

6ea Ace DMVC's
4ea Ace DDVC's
2ea Apache 2500's (lipo only)

On the bench for cycling/diagnostics:

6ea old Digipace 1's (dusty but still trusty)
6ea H9 Digital Dischargers
1ea Alpha 4
2ea Tritons
2ea CBA's
a pile of DVM's & several 'load boxes' based on Red's classic design.

(note: with the lights off in the shop, all the LED's make the room look like a sci-fi movie)

In the field box for Giant Scale:

2ea Hobbico MKII's
Loadmaster & a couple of DVM's
& if I'm gonna fly the big electrics then the Tritions come off the bench.

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....and I'm still collecting.

ROFL!! Mike is just put off by the pyrotechnics associated with trying to charge a Lipo at better than 1C... anything that takes an hour to charge can't be of much use on a racetrack. If we ever get him behind the sticks of a lipo powered pylon racer in a 5 plane heat he may yet come around to the 'dark side'.

Cheers!

exeter_acres

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Wow.... I feel quite inadequate..... I only have my lowly Accucycle Elite....


Guess I need to go Christmas shopping......





for more chargers!

Red Scholefield

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That's what I use my HP Precision Supply for, when I really want to check the others.

Red Scholefield

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Some people charge to fly, some have said I fly to charge. Seriously, the only charger I have ever purchased are the Alpha 4 and my original HD-500 (kit version - remember those?). Well I do pick up any of the great old ACE DMVC or HD 500s I happen to run into at swap meets. Make great gifts for modeling friends. The rest are what we call in the trade, "Test residue". Geezer was right, sort of. I wasn't being straight - there were more chargers, but I only kept the ones that had some usefulness or complex enough so that I needed them to answer questions that might come out of reviews done. An MRC 969 was returned to the owner after testing with my condolences. A couple others found their way to some glo flyers as a means of seducing them to the dark side. It worked.

hankpajari

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1 Alpha 4
2 Tritons
1 Hobbico Quick Charger I
1 Hobbico Quick Charger II
1 Hitec G350?
1 Hobbico Accucycle Pro
Whole bunch of wall warts

Use the Alpha the most.

Hank

Red Scholefield

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Gee, do wall warts count - any wall warts or just those specifically for our R/C systems? [] I do use my Alpha 4, Triton, Orbit, etc. on power tools, and varioius other rechargables not considered R/C applications. Hope this doesn't muddy of the topic too much

Mike01

I have a question....what do you nutcases use all those chargers for????

WHY do you have an Alpha 4, 8 Tritons, five Accucycles????

Do you need to charger 18 batteries at the same time? What are you people doing??

carlbecker

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In order of prefernce and use

2 Alpha 4's used weekly for 5 years now and you will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands!
1 Hughes+ - completely auto for large nimh, four ports 1 amp each
fma einstein - field only and I don't like the user interface at all


Carl

guver

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I sometimes charge e-maxx, twin detonater, a boat, evst and evbx and stampede at the same time.

Most all my models have dedicated batts and some are dual batts so I need lots of options.

I use 5 different power supplies depending on what I'm chargeing. My most common way to charge is to charge my 8 cell batts with a power supply that is just barely enough voltage so as the batt nears the end of charge the rate starts falling off at the end.

Red Scholefield

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Yes, at the Battery Clinic the traffic demands it, charging or discharging. Eat your heart out. [>:]

sideshow

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2 Orbit V6's
2 A4's

I don't use the A4's a whole lot anymore but for battery management they can't be beat. The Orbit's are used for field charging and my Li's.

guver

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Nut case????

Only a whack job spend over 399 on 1 charger...

Flying Geezer

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Easy Guver,

The guys with glow engines say, "Only a whacko would fly a 50% scale plane with a 200cc gasser.

Different toys for different boys.

RC Hobbyist

Superbrain 959...

It depends what your charging... lol

Mike01

You're right guver...."normal" people just keep buying chargers when they outgrow the ones they have and end up with 5 or 6 chargers, most of them paperweights, totalling over 1000 dollars.

I only have one "paperweight" charger, the Radio Shack, which I bought on sale for $20. I would have had two, but thankfully the 969 was taken off my hands.