yes the icharger is much better and much more acurate and will charge much faster with alot more useful features, but its not the best you can get, ive had a few diffrent types of chargers over the years most get you by but most are all over the place, in recent time ive had your type of charger and two imax b6, one imax b6 ac and my old man runs a imax b6, his over charges where mine under charged and one over charged and the acuracy is out from 0.4 to 0.04v when balancing and the over all voltage is out about the same not to mention they are not to good for delta peak charging nimh and oftern cut off to early or to late and you can not adjust the senitivity, not the best for test mah.
you dont need to be into rc to have a decent charger....... i use mine for xbox360 controller batteries, camera batteries, my daughters toys and for my rc even car batteries, its used a few times a week and some times every night its payed for its self.
if your intrested i got the icharger 106b+
The iCharger is famous for its ultra-accurate balancing feature. Each unit is calibrated at the factory prior to shipping!
This is a quality precision charger.
Spec.
Input voltage range : 10.0 – 18.0VDC
Charge current range : 0.05 – 10.0A
Discharge current range : 0.05 – 7.0A
Maximum charge power capacity : 250W @ input voltage > 13.5V
Maximum discharge power capacity : 20W
Maximum extern discharge power capacity : 170W @ 20V/7A
Current drain for balancing : <300mA
Balance accuracy : <10mV
Lithium (LiPo/LiIo/LiFe) battery cell count : 1 – 6 series
NiCd/NiMH battery cell count : 1 – 17 series
Pb battery cell count : 1 – 12 series (2 – 24V)
Battery setup memories : 10
Intelligent temperature control : Yes
PC Connect : USB port
Weight : 350g
Dimensions (L X W X D) : 134X83X25mm
Included.
106B Balance Charger/Discharger
2 Aligator clips
Banana leads
Temp Probe
CD