...on a budget, as usual :)
As some of you might have seen I started a thread about cheap DMM/volt meter to test my batteries before I get good smart charger that can give me actual capacity and voltage of batteries, but today I accidentally stumbled upon LaCrosse BC700 charger clones under these names:
IPC L1 from Conrad, Accupower IQ-128, Technoline BC-700.
Perhaps there are other names too.
Is there anything else on a cheap that has all the option BC700/Maha C9000 have, aside from safe overcharge protection Im interested in battery capacity reading option, charger that can determine and output real battery condition on LCD screen and show actual capacity in mAh is a must for me since Im going to buy heaps of LSD NiMh's and I want to know how good those cells are freshly out of the box so to say and how they maintain their capacity and quality over their lifetime, in other words I want to be in 100% control over my batteries.
Ive read that Maha C9000 is golden standart for AA/AAA battery recharge and that LaCrosse have had QC problems with their chargers exploding batteries or melting down. But Ive also read that some Maha C9000 have not stopped charging batteries despite their built in safety circuits or not charging older cells at all. So it looks like there is no 100% safe charger.
I will also be looking for either cheap 8xAA/AAA smart charger or two 4xAA/AAA smart chargers to charge my future AA NiMh's army, but I guess Ill start separate thread for that, so to keep this thread simple and clean lets stick to Maha C9000/LaCrosse BC7000 look alikes on the cheap!
Thanks!