It is the most common and most used hobby charger ever if I had to guess. It is just not setup with a cell holder, so you would have to get that separately.
Cheap, good, easy. Pick 2.
This is cheap and good but takes a bit more work to use. If you want it good and easy you will have to pay for that convenience.
On the plus side it can charge almost anything, I have used it to charge cell phone batteries, car batteries, Drill battery packs and UPS backup batteries among other things.
That thread is talking about balance charging the cells, this is not needed if you charge them in parallel and parallel is much faster then balance charging in series.
Simply get a cell holder that is wired in parallel, hook it up and set the current and let it run. No need to bother with anything else. I charge 14 cells at a time like this and they come out perfectly balanced everytime.
You can find them on ebay or aliexpress pre-wired or bare. I just got bares ones and wired them up myself but if you can’t solder then you can get the pre-wired ones. The wires are usually a bit thin though.
Yep, that will do it. Wire those leads together in parallel and connect it to the B6 and boom, you have a charger capable of 5A charging and if you reflash the firmware, a ton of advanced options and high precision.
Hmmm, I have almost all protected cells. Any pointer welcome to a slightly longer cell holder wired parallel.
I have the HobbyKing clone Accucel 6
but I’ve only used it for charging one cell at a time, so far
(e.g. it works fine for the 3.6v NiMH Black and Decker Versapack cylindrical cells)
but I ought to get into multiple-18650 lights at some point, without blowing anything up.
You can get a 26650 holder for protected 18650’s most likely. Mine are a bit longer and should fit a protected cell, I don’t own any protected cells to try though.
Mt friend used to run the Maxamps 1 cell lipos in a range of things, coupled together as what ever he needed to power, but he always charged a bunch of those as 1 cell and then put 20 amps on it.
Still took a while as this was 5450 mah cells.
We lovingly nicknamed the batteries “The LEGO batteries”
I will probably go that route as i have a few RC chargers too, and they might as well get som exercise charging round cells too beside the square RC batteries.