Expensive quiet fan.
More useless bargraphs and counters on the screen, but missing battery voltage. Meh.
No. Just no. Thats about twice as much as I’d ever pay. I can get a mc3000 on sale for 90 bucks.
No way they can charge $90 for that… there is no reason to not go for the much more advanced MC3000 instead.
Price is a bit higher than expected. I was hoping for less than AU$100/US$75. Oh well, lets hope I’m lucky in a giveaway, or snag a review version, or the price comes down.
We will need a group buy.
90$ for a facelifted Li500? Xtar obviously lost its mind
$37 is the maximum I would pay for it.
Edit: Oops, where are the buttons for individual bay?
Me too. We need a group similar to A.A. to support each other in difficult moments, so no one budges and buys it for more than $37 
+1
For that price $75 U.S. or less you buy two XTAR VP2 chargers.
I’d pay $50 maximum if it turns out to be a great charger with more bells and whistles than my pair of VP2’s .
I was waiting for this charger for some time. Price turned me off. Got the regular VP4 for a third of the price. Charging four 30Qs right now. This thing is sexy 
But why is the power cord so dang short……?
Perfect charger for my needs… but not for $90. I’ll be watching out for coupons/sales/group buys and using my VP2 until I eventually cave in.
Exactly, eventually we all cave in…
I’m already weak….$$…………lol
I won’t for $90 I can get a very nice hobby charger with all the extra’s I would need…
Luke, someday you too will join the dark side and spend too much on this charger…
It sounds expensive and compare to a MC3000 it probably is, but the user interface is very different. The VP4 can be used by everyone, but the MC3000 requires some knowledge to use.
I prefer the MC3000, but that does not make it the correct choice for everybody and the VP4 looks fairly competent (Until now I have done about 30 batteries on it, but I have not looked on the results yet).
Shouldn’tthat be the light side 
with all those battery bays. I think I’ll stay at the dark side of the moon (for now)
I’m hoping they have a sale one day soon. If it’s a good charger then its better IR measurement feature will be something that more chargers might try to implement to stay feature competitive. I’ve been strong enough to hold off on the MC3000 since some of the features I values the most (UI, Wireless, robustness) have been and ongoing challenge. The one feature I would really like (constant power- discharge test) is not available. So I can wait and check out other things as they work out the kinks. I was an early adopter of the NC2500 so I learned that SkyRC is not always that careful with QC or usability testing. They do better in their core market of Hobby Chargers I think. They have hopefully got enough interest on the MC3000 to keep investing in it which I think the latest software update release indicates, but how long until the next one is now an open question again.
The XTAR chargers I think have been dropping a bit in quality as they try to compete on price with some of the cheap junk out there. Since they are an OEM for chargers they likely even manufacture the chargers for some of their competitors, but they have to meet a much lower price point to make it economical to OEM them.