I got my charger and my lithium battery from china. The charger is really high quality and very simple to use. It also balance each individual cell to make sure they will last longer and prevent damaging the entire pack.
This is the review I left on hobbyking.com site
I really love this charger. The concept of KISS ( Keep It Simple Stupid ) is 100% there with that product!
The build quality is very good, all aluminium. Charging is sort of very simple and stupid proof. It was a 5Amp car fuse on the back. It has rubber feet on the bottom. Some solid silkscreen/sticker on top. It is bullet proof!
When you plug a 3 cell into the charger, 3 RED led will glow and then after it is finish, it will turn to GREEN.
If there is a bad cell, the specific LED will flash from RED to GREEN.
You can charge battery using what they call “parallel” charging. So you charge your 3 cell with only 2 wire at 11.8V instead of 3 time 3.7V.
You need special plug to do that.The fans does make noise. It is not that bad but it makes noise.
The only thing that I don’t like is the 12V car adapter. I don’t want to cut it and will need to make my own socket.
After charging my 4 cell battery. I had
4.181V
4.203V
4.199V
4.184Vmy other battery was
4.196V
4.209V
4.207V
4.180VI highly recommend this charger!
Have fun!
The battery had good reviews so I bought them and they where really cheap. These are 14.8V 5Amp battery. When charge, they go up to 16V. I will put 2 in series to get around 33.5V fully charged.
I had to solder some dean connectors on them since they came with 4mm gold bullet connector and I don’t use them in my scooter.
The connectors on the left are the deans connectors. I even took the time to put red and black heatshrink.