Originally Posted by
plumbcrazy
If you do decide on an icharger, I highly recommend getting it from progressive. They will warranty it, if ever nessesary, and you won't need to deal with a third party. Their customer support is great and I recommend a chat with them. They will be able to tell you what you need and not try to up sell you.
As far as power supplies for it, look on ebay for server power supplies. I typed in 24v rc power supply, also 12v rc power supply. I am using a 24V 1500 watt server power supply. By going this route I saved about $350
Bro Progresiverc like you mentioned their customer support is great. I forgot to mention that I am only flying a Tricopter right now until I feel like I am good enough for my first decent size Heli.
I recently quit the cars as I just grew tired of them.
Actually I should be ready I mean I can fly that little "Blade MCPX V2" helicopter both regular and inverted like second nature now and even some 3D fun with it...but honestly this homemade style Tricopter I have been flying the past few weeks is way more fun as I can actually see this thing in the sky as it is quite a bit bigger and man is it fast and flips around so fast it blows me away.
Anyway back to ProgressiveRC...for now they just sold me an adapter parallel charge board to where I can charge up to 6 Lipo's ranging from 2s to 6s all at one time as long as I charge them all that the same rate etc.
For now this is perfect and all I need until I go with what you mentioned. Man they took $10.00 off of an already cheap adapter kit and I just ordered 5 more 1300mah 3s batteries. I mean for the same amount of time it takes me to charge one battery (1 hour average if charging at 1c) well now supposedly it will take the same amount of time for 6 Lipos...1 hour.
They say I can bump the the charge rate to 5c being that these little "Zippy Compact 1300mah 40c" batteries are indeed rated at 5c but man I am really nervous about that. I might bump it up to 2 or 3c or even if I stick with the 1C charge rate like I have been I do not mind waiting an hour for 6 fully charged Lipo's compared to just one.
Tomorrow I'm trying this parallel charge board for the first time.
See...racing cars for a while and I am just now catching on to this kind of stuff...but I raced Nitro and had only decided to race electric as well not too long before I decided to switch hobbies...but I am learning now so that is cool.