Originally Posted by
murat61
u can buy a turningy reaktor 300watt dc charger. u can charge your battery up to 20amps/h. it has single port. However u need buy 5 port parallel balance lead. put your 2s batteries parallel, then charge it. Be careful when u are buying dc charger. It is important to have powerful charger ports, if you want to charge your batteries faster. Nowadays, lipos can be charged up to 5c. If you have 50w port (or each port for multi-port chargers), u can charge your 5.8 amps batteries at maximum 1c. If you buy higher voltage batteries(lets say 4s, if u bought 1/8 scale buggy) then those powerless ports become more problematic. Here is a example; you got a 4x 4s 5 amp batteries and u want to charge it within 1 hours. put them in paralel, then they become 4s(14.8v) 20 amp lipo. Since the charger is 300 watts, 20amp/h x 14,8v is less than 300watts. That means u can charge it within 1 hour. But you cannot do it with 50 watts charger. It costs 60dollars+shipping. However you need a psu. Computer psu's are cheap nowadays. You can buy 400watts Evga brand computer psu from amazon. It costs 30 dollars. most of the powerful chargers requires psu.
those are the things that u will need, if u buy.
Thank you for posting. Do you think that charger may be overkill for my needs? I will not be getting into 1/8 and will probably only need to charge up to 2s lipos. But the price does look nice at only $65 and together with the $35 power supply I'd purchase, it will be right at $100.