Hobby FansB6 Mini Professional Balance Charger/Discharger with Power Supply for 1S-6S LiPo Lilon Life NiCd NiMh Pb RC Battery

The best charger for beginners to intermediate players, easy to use once you get started, fits in my weekend bag, and charges decently quickly.

Awesome product, got it as a intro item for use of charging, as recommended by some one. 5 stars obviously, I probably should have went to the next one up to, I think to charge more batteries? But that it only my own fault and my own lack of knowledge. Value for money is great, felt good paying what I did for what I got. Works great got much out of it. Got me into the game

Had this for around 2 years now and it still charges super well. Theres better and faster chargers out there, but this is a great entry charger for lipo batteries.

It incorrectly and randomly jumps to 16.8V while balance charging a 4s battery. The screen flat out goes blank while attempting to fast charge. This charger is defective and dangerous, don't bother buying this.

This charger works great, but the provided power supply is only rated for 5A while the charger itself is rated for 6A. If you try to charge at a rate higher than 5A the charger reboots. Looks good and doesn't get hot from what I can tell, even on discharge mode. The menu takes a little getting used to if you're not familiar with this type of charger, but is pretty straightforward. It works great for charging my RC batteries, I just wish that I could get the full 6A. A properly rated power supply would get 5 stars.

Just picked this up today.Had one before works well .

So, I’ve seen a lot of negative reviews about this battery charger cutting out. Here is the issue - The supplied AC adapter only outputs 5A @ 12 V. If you push your charge rate much past 4, maybe 4 1/2A, it does shut off and restart because of current overdraw on the power supply. However, in the field, running at straight off of a 12V Pb acid battery, I have not had this issue as the input is capable of much higher amperage. A workaround, for this would be to obtain a higher output, DC power supply for charging inside. I have not had any issues with cables, catching fire, or batteries being cooked, but I do keep an eye on them while on the charger.This is a very effective little field charger, but it’s better if you understand the nature of lithium cells. For example, I may run a five amp charge cycle and then top it off maybe at one or half an amp when I see the V getting close to 4.2/cell. To sum up, this is an awesome cheap little charger so long as you understand what you’re doing. For the price I haven’t really come across anything better.

The media could not be loaded. UPDATE: Went up in smoke after only a few months. Blew the FET on the charging circuit the second I plugged in a battery. UPDATE 2: After doing a teardown, inspection and repair I've come to the conclusion that I must have hooked the battery up backwards, which blew the FET. There is reverse polarity protection but for some reason it failed this time. I threw in a IRF7413ZGPBF MOSFET, which is in a different package and not that close to the original, but pretty much any N-channel MOSFET will work as long as it can handle the current and will respond to the inputs.We're back to businessOriginal review------------------The included power supply is only 12 volts at 5 amps. If your charger is stopping early saying it is done it is because there is not enough current. You will not be able to charge at 1C on high capacity batteries with this charger without replacing it for a higher current one or a higher voltage one.W=V*A. 12 volts * 5 amps = 60 watts. 3S 5500 @ 1C is 12.6x5.5 amps = 69.3 watts. Do the math and you'll see the issues people are having. It's not the charger's fault.You can either charge at a lower C-rating or replace the power supply with something like a laptop power supply or a bench power supply.