Photos of your charging setup!

Batteries and Chargers Chargers
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Lets see some charging setups you guys have.

Here is mine.

2 - Maha C9000's
1 - Maha c808m
1 - Accucel 6 Hobby Charger
1 - Home made power supply
1 - Digital Multimeter
1 - Digital Temperature Gun ( for measuring battery temperatures )
1 - Digital Caliper
1 - Digital scale

I also have various charging leads, clamps, wires, battery holders, etc.

I've also got a box of obsolete (dumb chargers), but they were not picture worthy.

I keep my charged batteries stored inside an ammo can, I may add pictures of them later if I fell like getting them all out (theirs a lot of them!)

Heres a picture of my rework station, just for the heck of it ! It's an aoyue2702 (where have I heard that before?? )

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My Chargers

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Nice looking chargers you have there.

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Thanks man, But I have to get one of those Hobby Chargers like the one you have :)

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How much did that fluke multimeter run you Glenn?

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I think I paid around $300 for it 10 years ago. I'm pretty sure this exact model ( 189 ) isn't made anymore

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Yea, and I need to get me a fluke multimeter, but my wife would KILL me. haha.

My next hobby charger purchase will be the iCharger 208B , its awesome. Even has a usb port for graphing batteries!

You can't beat the accucell 6 though for the price.

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+1!

Man, sometimes I really could use a wise like that...

Gets a bit annoying soldering some dropins while they lay freely on table running away the soldering tip :|

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Nice stuff guys.

Glenn I need to get myself some of those Xcelite snips.

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Hey, those aren't budget setups!

I have a single TR-001 charger, cost roughly $7, and a FUKE multimeter that cost me around 5€ years ago. I'll have to swap the 9V battery, it started complaining that it's low. After about 9 years?

Btw, TR-001 has independent channels and stops charging, independently, at the 4.17-4.18V mark, according to FUKE.

Why do you guys have so many chargers? How fast do you discharge your batteries? And how many per day? :D

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I always solder using my Panavise. It's like having a third hand. I also use an illuminated magnifier which makes it easier to see what I'm doing on the smaller stuff. When you get older like me, the eyes don't work as well as they used to..

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I've got around 200 batteries total, but I only recharge about 4-5 per day (flashlight and police scanner)

I just like seeing a visual number on the total mah my battery has... imo that's well worth the money!

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I have these plus the red Klein's on the left. You can get those at Home Depot pretty cheap

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What's the cheapest (and still somewhat reliable) tester/charger that shows mAh?

I know, I could probably put proper resistors on the batteries, measure the time they discharge and calculate as well. Anyone got a good article on self measure'n'calculate method?

I prefer to work on a low budget. :)

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don't get the lacrosse bc700 - unreliable and warranty says they can charge you if it doesn't need repair or it was your fault.

temp sensor (thermistor?) on one of 2 banks just failed on mine and it is a month old (admittedly it was cycling batteries that entire time, but come on...). also many reports of failures in amazon reviews.

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Damn. These setups put me to shame. I've got a lone Ultrafire WF139 and a innova 3320 multi meter. Total expense=$35?

Nice pics..

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Nothing wrong with that. We all begin somewhere!

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Ok...did some research. The turnigy accucell only runs about 45 dollars. I'm sold. I will use that for all of my expensive batteries, AW, callie kustoms, red 3100 trustfires...

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I beat you easily. ~$15 over the span of 9+ years for charging expenses.

Anyone lower than that?

It is a Budget Light Forum, after all. ;)