Ok...so I bit the bullet and plunked down nearly $200 for the above cited balance charger. I wish I would have known about the ridiculous number of button pushes one MUST do in order to program a balance charge for one stinking channel/battery, let alone FOUR. Watch the YouBoob video and you will see what I mean.
Next: This unit is huge, clunky, excessively and unnecessarily heavy, and has >>NO<< on/off switch!!! Are you SERIOUS???? How many >>cents<< would it cost to have a rocker switch for power??? This unit is $200.00 for heavens sake!!! You are relegated to plugging and unplugging the unit each time you use it!!! Add to that it is so huge and heavy I would NEVER take this charger into the field for flying like I intended to do when I bought it.
Don't be fooled by the 50 watt rating, either. The balance charge rate tops out at a meager 5 amps. PERIOD. That means your 5000mAh LiPo's are charged at 1C, MAX. The FREE charger I got with my Phantom charges at 3 amps so the 2200mAh batteries get charged at ~1.4 C, which is still a pittance. And you know how long THAT takes! The 5000mAh batteries (for the Jumper 600) will take an eternity to balance charge at 5 amps (=1C) and they are rated WAY higher than 1C for charging. And what about my RC Buddy parallel board which can accept power to charge 6 batteries at once??? The 5 amp output limit turns THAT investment into a joke.
What nerve to say this is a 50W balance charger! It sure as hell is NOT. If you max out at 5 amps for each of four channels, that's 20 amps, NOT 50. Seriously...I'm MAJOR LEAGUE DISAPPOINTED that I spent $200.00 on this!
The final blow is the idiotic Chinglish of the "manual". It makes absolutely no sense, and is printed in such small type you can't read it anyway. You MUST download the pdf, and even now that you can read it, the content is still gibberish. In order to even get a clue as to the functions and how to invoke them, you must watch the Youtube videos.
Worst investment of my RC career.
PF
Next: This unit is huge, clunky, excessively and unnecessarily heavy, and has >>NO<< on/off switch!!! Are you SERIOUS???? How many >>cents<< would it cost to have a rocker switch for power??? This unit is $200.00 for heavens sake!!! You are relegated to plugging and unplugging the unit each time you use it!!! Add to that it is so huge and heavy I would NEVER take this charger into the field for flying like I intended to do when I bought it.
Don't be fooled by the 50 watt rating, either. The balance charge rate tops out at a meager 5 amps. PERIOD. That means your 5000mAh LiPo's are charged at 1C, MAX. The FREE charger I got with my Phantom charges at 3 amps so the 2200mAh batteries get charged at ~1.4 C, which is still a pittance. And you know how long THAT takes! The 5000mAh batteries (for the Jumper 600) will take an eternity to balance charge at 5 amps (=1C) and they are rated WAY higher than 1C for charging. And what about my RC Buddy parallel board which can accept power to charge 6 batteries at once??? The 5 amp output limit turns THAT investment into a joke.
What nerve to say this is a 50W balance charger! It sure as hell is NOT. If you max out at 5 amps for each of four channels, that's 20 amps, NOT 50. Seriously...I'm MAJOR LEAGUE DISAPPOINTED that I spent $200.00 on this!
The final blow is the idiotic Chinglish of the "manual". It makes absolutely no sense, and is printed in such small type you can't read it anyway. You MUST download the pdf, and even now that you can read it, the content is still gibberish. In order to even get a clue as to the functions and how to invoke them, you must watch the Youtube videos.
Worst investment of my RC career.
PF
