So many clones on EBAY. How do you know which are best?
Buy from Hobby King.
And if not US based?
Still buy from hobbyking, they got other warehouses.
EU warehouse
Thanks. I see they write “GENUINE” but just to confirm, is hobbyking selling “best clone” or “original” ? From their description is that they sell both actually hmm.
This one is genuine imax, you can check the code on skyrc.com, i’ve just recently purchased one.
They sell both, but the fake one is a bit cheaper.
+1 to everything koyotee said. There's other warehouses for Australia and the UK, and an international warehouse for the entire world including those serviced by regional warehouses.
Their shipping prices are crazy unfortunately.
To Poland from International warehouse (since EU shows back order): International (Registered) Air Mail 1.5kg EU18.93
To Poland from EU warehouse: Registered (Tracking) Parcel - Netherlands to Poland EU8.74
Well their shipping depends on the package weight.
I have Imax B8+ for a few years now, no complaints, voltages accurate, but there is some inaccuracy when doing high current discharge, but you don’t do that much often. I read that B6 had some issues with inaccurate balancing voltages, but that might have been resolved, check hobbyking user reviews.
however, I’d buy icharger 106b if I were you, because it’s more configurable, has 4.3V lipo charging, user voltage calibration. However #2, its few times more expensive. However #3 you’ll use the charger for a lot of years so few tens of $ are not so important. However #4 I also use it for RC flying so if you are just buying a charger to do charge some liIons, you might as well buy one of these
I continue to fail to see the appeal to IMAX B6. There are KNOWN fakes with known problems. (ALL these 4-button chargers are clones derived from the Bantam). The +original +has had balancing issues on and off for years. Most folks don’t have the tools or capability of validating the accuracy of their chargers so they may not even know the issues.
For only a tad more you can get an Acucell-6, a better charger with a much better reliability track record.
For an even better product yet, for more $$ the icharger line is very good.
I went this route and haven’t looked back!
Acucell-6, icharger… - please post sites where you can buy original and not clones. Thanks.
turnigy is a hobbyking brand
HOBBY KING Accucell 6 - This is the one I bought <-click link
sitting in front of me now at work….
They are ALL clones. The original is a company called Bantam.
The difference is some are FAKES of the clones. Since IMAX is so popular (again, can’t imagine why except it’s cheap) there are a bunch of these fake IMAX B6 out. If it’s not from a reputable vendor that can indicate authenticity, avoid > which means pretty much anything on eBay.
Turnigy is simply a re-brand of some other clone. Goodness help you figuring out which one but they’ve got skin in the game here so generally seem to be OK.
Icharger's are clones??
at some point somebody ripped somebody else’s code and now there is a huge number of these imax/turnigy etc chargers around with identical 4 button UI. As you’re gonna charge unstable lithium based chemistry batteries, don’t buy the cheapest “clone” from an unknown seller. Turnigy seems pretty decent, and imax b8 i’ve red no imbalancing issues about. Icharger even developed/improved the code with new options.