Originally Posted by
gee-dub
While this does not address the question at hand, I wanted to prequalify subsequent responses.
Electrons are not price sensitive. This is to say, spending more on any given charger - in and of itself - is no guarantee as to the quality of charge, effect on battery lifecycle, etc.. A significant portion of charger price discrepancy can be accounted for by energy capacity (i.e. watts, charge/discharge/balance), feature set, and construction/materials. Let's not forget name branding... While individuals or forums, such as RCT are great sources for experienced based opinions, and a lot can be said for people sharing their personal experiences, do not take that alone as fact.
Question any responses before accepting them as truth. If someone says charger X is better than Y because it balances the cells more closely, what technical truth are they basing that statement off of? Does one charger monitor the cells down to .001 vs. .01(?), maybe a more accurate/better balancing algorithm is used(?) or higher quality components with less margin of error/deviation for measuring?
That is soooooooo true!
Most experiences do come from a one device only so if its bad all is bad and if its good, all is good. They do forget that their bad working of even good working device is a one experience only. But cheap B6 copied chargers are made of parts with higer tolerances and are known of some tolerances at the balancer, on the other hand a 0.05v difference between cells is no end of the world nor a dimp in the performance. Even then there are so many people complaining and do not do a check with a voltmeter to see if their charger is really that "far" off.
And about brand fanboys. Some years ago I had a discussion with someone who stated Savox servo's were crap and his Orion servo's were super while the Orion were just rebranded Savox.....
