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I need a new lipo charger, which one is the best?
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I need a new lipo charger, which one is the best? - 11.14.2008, 01:00 AM

I am looking at getting a new charger for my lipos. I have a MRC Super Brain 989 that is not even a year old, but I read this on Apogee web site,

"WARNING: We will not warranty any pack charged with an MRC Superbrain charger. The MRC Superbrain series chargers do not use a proper lithium charging schema and have been known to cause lithium battery failures. Due to this, if you wish to use their products, go to them for lithium pack replacement when your battery fails."

Now this worries me as half my packs are Apogees and half are Neu's. If the charger is not good for Apogee packs, it cant be good for the Neu's either.I originally got it because it did 8s just like my MGM and BEC, so I figured it would be good to have that option covered. The price was also cheaper than most of the 6s chargers at the time.

Question 1) has anyone else heard anything negative about the MRC chargers or had first hand bad experience?

I would like to get the best charger I can and be covered for the future. I did that in the rc dark ages of ni/cd and still have it, of course I had to send it in for a firmware update just to do ni/mh.

I have been looking at the Hyperion EOS0610i, either the duo or the net model. The duo gives the ability to do 2 packs at once or higher cell counts, but a net now and another later will spread the cost and give more overall power. I also really like the fact that the hyperions can use up to 28v input, since I work in instrumentation and control systems and 24v power supplies are easy to come by. In fact if I got a 12v model I would have to mod an old pc power supply or drop voltage on one of the 24v power supplies I already have to run the charger at full capacity. Although I do have a couple of smaller 12v power supplys that would be able to run the charger at lower (1c on most of my current packs) charge rates. But now that Neu has new 5s batts, which I plan on getting when I get more batts, I will need the most bad azz charger to do the high rates.

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Question 2) Is the hyperion the best (have I already made up my own mind , lol) or is there better chargers out there?

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