Since I started with RC cars I have owned a small single 1-6 cell programmable charger. That was 4 years ago and all I needed to charge was 2 to 3 2 cell 3000 mah batteries. Now that I have got into flying stuff I have found myself with an array of batteries of varying sizes. My main pack size is 6 2200 3 cell 45-90 C Turnigy nano techs perfect for the Versa-copter for 7-12 minute flights with FPV depending on how I fly. Anyway it takes me a good hour and a bit to fly all 6 packs but I end up sitting around for more than 6 hours charging.
I was particularly interested in the new venom series which I caught a glimpse of on a Flite Fest 2016 video. The product Venom Pro Quad charger with 4 separate chargers seems like a good upgrade from my old charger and would cut my charge time down to around 2 hours for 8 batteries in total. I would charge in parallel but I'm not a fan of toasting 3 good batteries if one is not quite right, that and safety is a pretty big priority and parallel charging can go sideways pretty fast.
Does anyone know anything about these chargers? They seem pretty decent compared to the iCharger 406 Duo that Rotor Riot had a part on a few months back which comes in at around $300 and you still have to pick up a power supply and the parallel charging boards afterwards.
Yes, I know they are considerably different but I will only ever go up to 4S on quads and planes so I'm not too worried about the low charge current of 0.1-7 amps per point in the Venom Pro Quad.
Anyone have an opinion on these chargers or chargers you personally use?
I was particularly interested in the new venom series which I caught a glimpse of on a Flite Fest 2016 video. The product Venom Pro Quad charger with 4 separate chargers seems like a good upgrade from my old charger and would cut my charge time down to around 2 hours for 8 batteries in total. I would charge in parallel but I'm not a fan of toasting 3 good batteries if one is not quite right, that and safety is a pretty big priority and parallel charging can go sideways pretty fast.
Does anyone know anything about these chargers? They seem pretty decent compared to the iCharger 406 Duo that Rotor Riot had a part on a few months back which comes in at around $300 and you still have to pick up a power supply and the parallel charging boards afterwards.
Yes, I know they are considerably different but I will only ever go up to 4S on quads and planes so I'm not too worried about the low charge current of 0.1-7 amps per point in the Venom Pro Quad.
Anyone have an opinion on these chargers or chargers you personally use?