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Digital Balanced Li-Ion/LiPo/NiCD/NiMH/Pb Battery Smart Charger and Discharger

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- USB Port Update: numerous reports were received regarding the USB temperature port being non-functional. After investigation, the USB port appears to be disconnected from the main circuit.
DX is now getting the supplier involved to offer remedies of several choices for all customers. These remedies will be posted here before September 28, 2008.
Product description:
- This Item is a rapid charger with a high performance microprocessor and specialized operating software
- Muti-Function charger balancer and discharger
- High-Power and high performance circuit
- Monitoring the voltage of individual cell
- Operating voltage range :DC11.0~18.0 Volt
- AC to DC adaptor (DC11.0~18.0V/5A)
- Circuit power: Max. charge power 50W / Max. discharge power 5W
- Charge current range:0.1~5.0A
- Discharge current range:0.1~1.0A
- Current drain for balancing Li-po:300mAh/cell
- NiCd/ NiMH battery cell count:1~15cell
- Ii-ion/ Polymer cell count:1~6 series
- Note that the USB temperature port may not be functional
- Dimensions:135 x 85.5 x 30mm
- Weight:270g (Net Weight)
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Ownership verified by DX Would be nice if it came with plugs to make up bal
Posted by DonaldM on 3/21/2009
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: more than 1 month

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstar
Build Quality: starstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstar

Pros: Charges most things. I've even charged a car battery with it - albeit somewhat slowly. With a bit of ingenuity making up battery holders it can be persuaded to charge most things though a lower current option for small capacity cells would be nice.

Cons: Manual is confusing and a poor print job - the pictures are hard to make out. Nor does it do a very good job of explaining things. And it would help a lot if I didn't need a magnifying glass to read it at all.
Heat dissipation ought to be better.

Other Thoughts: The buzzer is VERY loud - but it can be turned off. Personally I prefer to leave it on on general safety grounds.

Bottomline: Non-working USB port is a pity. Would be nice if it was usable for logging stuff. Not a deal breaker though. Charges things just fine, replaced quite a lot of other chargers.

Ownership verified by DX Very Useful
Posted by bwalter on 1/13/2009
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Price: starstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstar

Pros: Charge almost anything.
Build quality was better than I expected.

Cons: 5W maximum discharge means it can take very long to discharge a higher voltage pack.
Didn't detect the peak on a brand new NiMH pack I got for my Roomba resulting in overcharging the cells.

Other Thoughts: I read reviews stating it gets very hot when discharging but I found that didn't seem to be the case. I did put some thermal conductive compound on the mosfet and use an ATX power supply to power it with the charger above the fan.
It would be nice if DX sold battery holders so it would be easier to charge lose cells such as AA AAA.

Bottomline: Great charger for the price.

Ownership verified by DX Great price, well working
Posted by Moritz on 1/5/2009
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: more than 1 month

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstar

Pros: It works great, and brought back some batteries to live.
Charges much better than all the other Chargers I own.
Supports all kind of Batteries.

Cons: Sometimes the auto mode does not stop the charging (perhaps defect battery), so it is important to use the timer and the temperature stop.

Other Thoughts: I had a NiCD driller battery which was completely dead. After charging and discharging it a few times with this chargers, it worked great again.

Bottomline: As it is also written in the manual, don't let it charge when you are not at home. IT works great, but I don't trust such electrical stuff.

Ownership verified by DX Good field charger for the price.
Posted by CQ2000 on 11/26/2008
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: more than 1 month

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstar

Pros: -The price...can't beat it.
-Charges almost any type of battery.
-small size.
-comes with lots of different cables.
-It does have data capabilities, if you have the technical ability to get it working.

Cons: -USB port is not a USB port. DO NOT PLUG IT INTO YOUR COMPUTER.
-overall accuracy of the this charger is not very good.
-Balancing not as accurate as it should be, but it is better than not balancing at all.
-lack of an insulator between the bottom of the circuit board and the case could lead to short circuits. The ends of the components are very close to the case.
-as mentioned before, there is a transistor that should be thermally bonded to the case and it is not.

Other Thoughts: I bought this charger because it was supposed to have a USB port. It turns out the data on the "USB" port is actually TTL serial data @ 9600 baud. I did get manage to get the data from this charger to work. I used a USB to serial UART device (many companies use these to program their speed controllers, ca$tle, xcel3r1n, h3xtr0nic etc.) based on the CP2102 chip. I then used a freeware program called LogView2, using the Bantam A6 device setting, to display the data. It works quite nicely, though I have not tested the software extensively yet.

Bottomline: If you need a charger and can't afford a really good one, this one is a good buy.

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Dimensions: 5.24 in x 3.15 in x 0.91 in
Weight: 14.11 oz
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