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Old 03-11-2008 | 09:09 AM
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From a quick read of the manual, here are a couple of things I notice:

1. If charging without the balancer hooked up, you must press INC to get it to skip through the balancer check. (Do you need to *wait* before pressing INC? How long?)

2. There's no provision for naming the memory slots.

3. The manual is badly written; there's no way to figure out the user interface from reading the manual.

I've never used a balancer on my 2S Orion packs (my voltmeter shows them still in perfect balance), so I don't know if I'd hook up the balancer every time if I used a balancing charger, so I don't know how big a deal #1 is.

I think named memory slots are an important safety feature. It seems more reliable to look for the "Platinum 4800" slot or the "IB 4200" slot or the "Tx LiPo 1500" slot than to look each time for the battery chemistry and rate.

Bad documentation is common in this sort of product, but I get the sense that this charger might be a bit less easy to use than the ICE.

Otherwise this seems like a very attractive unit, compact and powerful.
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