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Old 06-15-2009 | 02:03 AM
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Dave H
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Different definitions of best: Do you want a small/portable DC only unit, or is AC power important? How important is cost, what do you consider reasonable? Do you plan on getting into a 1/8 scale electric beast, or anything else significantly bigger than what you already have in the future? Want to charge more than 1 at a time? What about high rate discharge capability for the 3300 nicads? (I wouldn’t worry myself, once you start with lipos I suspect those will soon go bye bye)

Hyperion is a very solid choice best I can tell, with the possible exception of high rate nicad discharge. (I don’t know of any balance charger that does high rate) Seem to be solid quality, have backlighted displays which is nice, built in balancer (safer, and charges lipos quicker), available enough places, they update them, have a nice selection of models, some of the more powerful and flexible models, and appear to be supported if there is an issue.

Or one of the new Triton EQ jobs, the existing Tritons seem to have a good rep too. A couple of my buds have tried the new ones and so far so good.
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